Episodes
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,...
Published 06/29/22
This episode is our conversation with Dr. Geraldine Palmer on the issue of cultural looting, specifically relating to the Benin bronzes stolen and claimed through British imperialism. We discuss imperialism, cultural trauma, and the need to dismantle cultural looting to preserve living heritages.
Published 05/25/22
Commentary by Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student Ann Marie Beals on her land acknowledgement from this year's SCRA Biennial Conference: Uprooting White Supremacy
Published 10/11/21
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...
Published 06/20/21
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.,...
Published 04/08/21