The Community Psychologist Podcast

For this episode we are joined by Dr. Natalie Kivell, assistant professor in community psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. We discuss the global podcast Indaba, international collaborations, ancestors, colonialism, and whether community psychology is just colonial psychology. It's a podcast about a podcast! We're getting meta here. [link to the show] + [link to show transcripts and translations] Indaba is a global podcast that brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists as we re-imagine and reconstruct how we relate to and live in the world. Rooted in a Critical Community psychology, an interdisciplinary social science driven by social justice and decolonial values, we explore methodological, theoretical, and practical knowledge that informs our social change practice. Indaba is a South African Indigenous term for a meeting and through this show we foster a coming together to share and engage with ideas with a collective of voices from around the world. Curated into five pairs of episodes…

For this episode we are joined by former SCRA Book Series editor Dr. Robin Lin Miller. Robin joins us to discuss her book Breaking Barriers: Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. For more information, visit https://www.safersexmsu.com/

Over 130 Sudanese women committed mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing war in Sudan. In this episode of TCP, recorded on November 26th, 2024—Day 590 of the ongoing genocide in Sudan—we, Azza Osman a Sudanese, and Noha Emam an Egyptian community psychologist, come together to confront the truth behind the crisis. This is not a civil war. It’s a brutal campaign of violence targeting the Sudanese people, and the world cannot afford to look away. We discuss the lived experiences of those caught in the conflict, share personal reflections, and challenge the global narrative that has obscured the reality of this genocide.Our aim is to foster understanding, amplify the voices of the oppressed, and inspire action. Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEuuUjozi-3pHBvlDwHgGqEDyjc50JHi/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102730732834071059329&rtpof=true&sd=true

November 1 is a time in which many cultures venerate their ancestors. Ancestor veneration is a way to maintain continuity and connection between the past, present, and future. For example, in the African diaspora, Fêt Ghede is one such form of veneration. An African ancestor in psychology is Frantz Fanon, yet this revolutionary influenced many people beyond the African diaspora. He influenced ancestors such as Paulo Freire and the subject of this episode: Ibrahim Makkawi. Like Fanon, Makkawi was active in anti-colonial struggles for liberation movements. He “mapped out cartographies for our movements into Palestinian decolonial states of being” (Atallah & Masud, 2022, p. 195). Ibrahim was at the forefront of building a decolonial community psychology in Palestine, establishing the Community Psychology master’s program at Birzeit University and revolutionizing the praxis of psychology in Palestine. Ibrahim’s impact extends far beyond academic accomplishments. Those who knew him best testify to his impact on…

In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Goodar and Dr. Hareder McDowell speak with us about Black women's radical self-care and sexual communication empowerment. Catch up on the rest of our episodes at https://scra27.org/publications/tcp/podcast/. We've included below the abstracts from their presentations at the 2021 SCRA Biennial. Dismantling Health Disparities among Black Women, Dr. Vanessa Goodar Black women are disproportionately affected by heart disease, stroke, diabetes, breast cancer, cervical cancer, fibroid tumors, premature birth rates, obesity, sickle cell disease, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health issues and most recently COVID-19 compared to white counterparts. Resilience and strength characteristics support coping; however, further investigation of research-based, community self-care practice that centers Black Women’s voices is needed to address urgent racial health disparities as well as social and environmental stressors that impact Black women’s health and quality of life. A theoretical…

This episode is our conversation with Dr. Geraldine Palmer on the issue of cultural looting, specifically relating to the Benin sculptures stolen and claimed through British imperialism. We discuss imperialism, cultural trauma, and the need to dismantle cultural looting to preserve living heritages. Hosts: Dominique Thomas & Allana Zuckerman Edited by Dominique Thomas

Commentary by Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student Ann Marie Beals on their land acknowledgement from this year's SCRA Biennial Conference: Uprooting White Supremacy.

Community psychology graduate students occupy several roles in their institutions. This gives graduate students unique vantages to some of the underlying issues in higher education. Disparities in graduate programs, student mental health, and mentoring are key issues that graduate students may organize themselves around. In our time as graduate students, we walked the various tightropes of scholar/student-activist, student-researcher, lecturer, junior mentor, and student organizer. The typically isolating experience of graduate school is improved when students can find common cause to advocate for and with each other. For our newest episode of The Community Psychologist Podcast, we invited Georgia State University graduate student Alesha Bond. Alesha is a doctoral student in the Cognitive Sciences program in the department of psychology. She previously co-wrote a TCP article discussing the organizing students engaged in to address issues of diversity and mentoring. We talked about the necessity of student…

For our first episode, we discuss relevant issues to the field of community psychology including key areas we feel are important to consider for community psychology moving forward. We discuss topics such as mentoring in graduate programs, colonialism in the US education system, the increased need for a critical discussion of concrete social issues, the role of the intellectual, and recommendations for the future. http://scra27.org/publications/tcp/podcast/ References Daboin, I., Zuckerman, A., Thomas, D., & Borgman, R. (2015). Culturally sensitive mentoring: Reflections from a SCRA roundtable. The Community Psychologist, 48(3), 28-30. Davis, F. E. (2019). Little book of race and restorative justice: Black lives, healing, and US social transformation. Good Books: New York. Dutta, U. (2019). Decolonizing “community” in community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62, 272-282. Lomotey-Nakon, L. L. (2018). Du Bois’s decolonial dragmatism: Teaching community psychology toward epistemological…