The Community Psychologist Podcast

For this episode we are joined by former SCRA Book Series editor Robin Lin Miller. Robin joins us to discuss her book Promise Rises: 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

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 Paolo Freire and the subject of this episode: Ibrahim Makkawi. Like Fanon, Makkawi was

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,

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.

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

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.,