Just in time for the end of Black History Month, our Newest Episode of #BlackCreativeHealing is NOW LIVE! #BCH201 Marisol Norris, Ph.D., is a board-certified music therapist, educator, consultant, and founder of the Black Music Therapy Network, Inc. In our collaboration for Black Creative Healing, Marisol, Adenike & Natasha explore concepts of Refusal and Solidarity. Our conversation and collective art making weaves through personal experiences with mindfulness of Consent & the potential for Harm.
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Here are links to some of the authors, books, essays and concepts referred to in this session:
Sandra Grande https://polisci.uconn.edu/person/sandy-grande/#
Audre Lorde https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653196/caste-oprahs-book-club-by-isabel-wilkerson/
Additional References made during this episode:
Gloria Richardson (the woman mentioned by Natasha notorious for the photo of her pushing aside a military man's rifle): https://bglh-marketplace.com/2017/01/the-story-behind-this-iconic-image-of-a-black-woman-pushing-aside-a-national-guardsmans-bayonet/
Decolonized Buffalo Podcast "Sanctuary" episode mentioned by Natasha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiH_2_pL1M&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=DecolonizedBuffaloPodcast
The GEMM Theory mentioned by Marisol: Hardy, K. V. (2008). On becoming a GEMM therapist: Work harder, be smarter, andnever discuss race. In M. McGoldrick & K. V. Hardy (Eds.) Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Second Edition: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice. 2nd Edition. Guilford Press.
Definition of Healing Justice, from BEAM.org: https://www.beam.community/healing-justice
