Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2189775
Jessica A. Joseph, Jessica R. Chavez
Abstract This paper explores existing feminist body positive frameworks and queer theories of embodiment while asking troubling questions about bodies between and outside of binary, cisgender frameworks. We consider how feminist psychotherapy offers some possibilities and occludes others when applied to the desire to redistribute or shrink chest tissue. Using psychoanalytic theory, we aim to uplift alternative (and, at times, uncomfortable) clinical considerations to better understand the relationship between our patients and their bodies. To guide feminist therapists, we propose a framework of mourning and materialization. Specifically, we suggest that therapists practice reflexivity and collaborate with their patients to determine what aspects of the ideal body to mourn and what aspects can be materialized through surgery or other forms of bodily change.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2189774
Jan E. Estrellado, Kimberly F Balsam
Abstract Transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) people have been historically excluded from feminist approaches broadly, including in the realm of therapy. This special issue examines the utility of feminist therapy with TNBGE people, along with its potential and limitations. Contributors focus on specific issues affecting TNBGE people, such as migration and citizenship status, sexual well-being, trauma and violence, neurodiversity, and developmental context. Feminist approaches are explored using intersectional and strengths-based lenses in a diversity of clinical settings and across various aspects of the therapeutic process with TNBGE people.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125618
M. Banks
Abstract Martha Banks examines her evolving professional life in the context of dynamic intersecting marginalized demographic identities and overcoming challenges to become a leader in two fields: psychology and religion. Her publications and teaching reflect opportunities to pull together multiple interests which continue into her retirement to “renewment,” during which she finds ways to serve as a bridge. She seeks to provide mentoring that was often missing from her training and early career. This article ends with advice for graduate students and early career psychologists, as well as a challenge to repair recent damage to social justice accomplishments of the past four centuries.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125620
P. Collins
Abstract This essay engages one fundamental question: How might Black women rethink the meaning of wellness within a society that is itself unwell? Black women’s empowerment requires cultivating self-defined knowledge that both criticizes the existing social order that makes Black women unwell and reconceptualizes wellness within these social relations. To develop this thesis, I explore how the construct of controlling images aids in rethinking Black women’s health, healing, and wellness. I argue that the specific controlling images applied to Black women as mammies, matriarchs, bad mothers, and jezebels constitute social scripts that justify and reproduce Black women’s subordination. Uncritically accepting these controlling images fosters illness. But rejecting these social scripts and imagining new ways of being Black women constitutes an essential aspect of rethinking Black women’s wellness.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125616
Iva GreyWolf, R. J. Ross
Abstract We share our personal journeys as Indigenous feminist psychologists in this article. We recognize and honor relationship with others, including each other. This is why we collaborated on our narrative based on our lived experience working definition of Indigenous feminism. We share the origins of our traditions and practices and their interconnections. We discuss identification and identity, guiding principles and values, and how our values and experiences interweave with our lives of service toward social justice.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125617
L. Comas-Díaz
Abstract The author shares her decolonial journey in a personal manifesto. As a Puerto Rican born in the continental United States, but growing up in Borinquen (Puerto Rico’s Taíno name)—a colonized nation—the author embarks on a decolonial path addressing colonial mentality, coping in the diaspora, and thriving in the cultural borderlands. The author identifies social justice action as an antidote to coloniality and to oppression. Moreover, she discusses how her decolonization process helped her to develop and practice a radical feminist therapy. This healing approach integrates feminism of color, psycho-spirituality, and liberation psychology approaches.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125611
Jasmine A. Mena
Abstract Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) feminist visionaries have contributed to a paradigm shift in feminist theory and practice by espousing an intersectional and inclusive conceptualization of liberation. In this special issue, we recognize and honor seven feminist visionaries who shared their journeys including formative experiences and challenges which fomented a desire for equity, justice, and collective wellbeing. The transformations to feminism, psychology, psychotherapy, and other areas following their immeasurable contributions are vast and have produced enduring changes. The contributors also offer their reflections and wisdom about what remains unfinished in service to building an equitable and just society.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125615
Viann N. Nguyen-Feng, Melinda A. García, Natalie Porter
Abstract Dr. Jean Lau Chin (1944–2020) was a dynamic feminist psychologist who excelled as a practitioner, consultant, researcher, academic, educator, and activist. Jean’s ability to touch the hearts and minds of individuals across generations is evidenced in the plethora of written memorials dedicated to Jean from organizations far and wide. Perhaps lesser known is Jean’s work in oral histories, as she viewed such recorded and transcribed stories to be meaningful reminders for generations to come. This article presents an oral history project of Jean Lau Chin’s life, as told posthumously through friends, family, and colleagues.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2125619
Jasmine A. Mena, Delishia M. Pittman
Abstract Laura Brown is a clinical and forensic psychologist who works from a feminist theory perspective. She is an intellectual, a writer, and ardent social justice activist. Growing up the grandchild of immigrants in a middle class, well-educated suburb, Laura’s early career aspirations felt within reach but did not insulate her from the “rampant sexism” of the time simply because that was so pervasive. Built on foundations of fairness and equal treatment for all beings, shaped equally by her Jewish heritage and family values of contrarianism, Laura’s path to feminism and liberation felt like the inevitable outcome of all of her previous immersion in the world of social justice activism and provided a community of likeminded women. These women and spaces would become critical beacons in the fostering of her own consciousness-raising and racial and sexual identity development. Her contributions to psychology and related fields are extensive and include prominent themes in feminist therapy theory and psychotherapy and the treatment of trauma.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2097595
D. Domínguez
Abstract The increased presence of Latinx migrant womxn in immigration detention centers reflects the colonial, racialized, gendered, and capitalist nature of the punishing business in the United States. For Latinx migrant womxn, trauma from painful encounters with immigration detention may compound with suffering related to colonialism, imperialism, militarism, and racial capitalism. Grounded in the emancipatory frameworks of abolition feminism and liberation psychology, this article offers multi-level critical reflection strategies to support therapists in their efforts to resist the violent and oppressive nature of the immigration industrial complex and prison industrial complex.
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