Bell Hooks wrote powerfully about the mechanisms of unconscious bias, particularly the seemingly neutral, but still harmful tendency for white people to assume that a black or brown person who does not match their stereotypical template must be “special” or...
New resource: trans affirming therapist checklist Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia have developed a new trans affirming therapist checklist designed primarily as a resource for anyone who is looking for a therapist and wants to be reassured that...
‘You know more about loss in your bones than any thesis could capture’, I wrote to my sister at the end of my PhD. In the last years of my research, the losses in my orbit were not ordinary, slow and quiet. Grief was hot. It is therefore no coincidence that loss...
I feel the need to explore the trauma I have experienced as a result of Mr Donald Trump and his most ambitious and disturbing mission to make America Great Again (MAGA), which presents a self-centred and ego-maniac demeanour without the cre of aothers. Even though he...
I am a first-generation Punjabi woman who divorced after a decade’s long marriage. Gasps of shock and horror reverberate in my head!! For my generation it is a taboo and unspoken subject that even now, after working on my feelings of shame, invoke those gasps and my...
Inspired by To Have or to Be by Erich Fromm We may wonder if our partner really loves us, but an equally meaningful inquiry is: Does our partner feel loved by us? It’s a tricky one because the answer may be that we don’t know. So, a part of this writing is to...
Author: Dr. Esther Cole The Pull Out Method is not a means of contraception – that is a myth – I think it’s like rolling the dice. All adults and young people globally need ‘pulling out’ removed from their sex education curriculum, and it needs removing from the...
‘Artwork by unknown artist, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, September 2021. Power naps are my thing. But I am as conditioned by capitalism and its demands to produce as much as anyone, so it’s been something of a guilty pleasure. Until...
Having chosen a title that I feel some may find controversial and may raise curiosity amongst others, there is some pressure in delivering this. I have arrived at this premise from having published and offered talks and workshops on the traumas of racism. I am now...
We Place Everything in the Unspoken: The Therapy Experiences of Black Gay Men A doctorate research paper by Ben Amponsah (Glasgow Caledonian University) Therapy should be a space for healing, self-exploration, and growth. However, for Black, gay men (BGM), this space...
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