Media

Presentations / Panels

  • Institute for the Development of Human Arts (Sep, 2021) [WATCH HERE]

    On Monday, September 20th, IDHA hosted a community discussion that brought together mental health workers, individuals with lived experience, and activists working in and outside of intersecting systems to present concrete steps and tools for decarcerating mental health practice, as well as methods for caring for ourselves in the face of institutional barriers.

  • The Office of Diversity & Inclusion (April, 2021) [WATCH HERE]

    When crises happen, we are often told “healing” is needed, but what would this actually look like? Many have experienced tremendous loss, pain and exhaustion not just over the past year but for generations. Though conversations about self-care and mental health have increased in higher education, many of us still feel burned out or disillusioned when it comes to the fight against racism and oppression. What practices might we need to adopt or leave behind to truly set ourselves on a pathway to healing?

    Event hosted by the Diversity Training & Education team in the University of Maryland's Office of Diversity & Inclusion. Recorded on April 13, 2021.

Podcasts

  • Living in This Queer Body (May, 2021) [LISTEN HERE]

    This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience.

    Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another.

  • (July, 2020) [LISTEN HERE]

  • (June, 2020) [LISTEN HERE]

  • (May, 2020) [LISTEN HERE]

Articles

  • Truthout (September, 2017) [READ HERE]

    In this political climate marginalized people are exposed to even more traumatic events.

  • (September, 2022) [READ HERE]

  • (November, 2020) [READ HERE]