Join us at this online university event! Drawing on scholarship and action conducted in the Decoloniality and Social Privilege Awareness Initiative at Antioch University Seattle within the PsyD Program. This presentation explores oppression and its dismantling through the lens of the eight cognitive functions first proposed by Carl Gustav Jung.
Social Justice Symposium: Colonialism, Control, and Copulation
Join us at this online university event! Drawing on scholarship and action conducted in the Decoloniality and Social Privilege Awareness Initiative at Antioch University Seattle within the PsyD Program. In this presentation, Colonialism, Control, and Copulation: A Primer on Reproductive Justice, the relationship between coloniality and reproductive justice in the United States will be explored.
Social Justice Symposium: Sexual Violence Against Asian American Women
Join us at this online university event! Drawing on scholarship and action conducted in the Decoloniality and Social Privilege Awareness Initiative at Antioch University Seattle within the PsyD Program. This session will aim to facilitate a conversation about sexual violence against Asian Americans and to examine how to bring community actions and liberation into clinical psychology practice and education.
Symposium Info: Decoloniality in the Study and Practice of Psychology
Join us at this online university event! Drawing on scholarship and action conducted in the Decoloniality and Social Privilege Awareness Initiative at Antioch University Seattle within the PsyD Program. This session will provide an overview of decoloniality in the study of psychology.
Liberation from Colonialism Now: Promoting Research Activism
Join us at this online university event! Colonialism is not purely a historical concept. We are witnessing it in Eastern Europe, and we can witness it internationally and locally in everyday interactions, clinical encounters, research, systems, institutions, and cultures.
DSPAI Members Publish New Article
Although the American Psychological Association encourages clinical psychologists to recognize and understand the experience of social privilege both within themselves and the individuals and communities they serve, there is a dearth of research in the field to guide this pursuit.
It’s In Our Blood
At a recent meeting of the Decoloniality and Social Privilege Awareness Institute (DSPAI) we engaged in travel of time and place, all from the comfort of our Zoom squares. Through photographs, stories, and reflections, we traced a journey of one of our members that crossed continents and generations. We virtually visited Tibet, India, Africa, and several branches of family and friends.
DSPAI’s Jude Bergkamp Joins Historic Task Force
Jude Bergkamp, the Chair of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology at Antioch Seattle, was recently chosen for the prestigious Competencies Task Force of the American Psychological Association. Bergkamp sees this appointment as an opportunity to shape generations of psychologists to come. As he says, “We have to get folks trained up and ready to face the […]
My Journey of Understanding Privilege
Magen Hauser My name is Magen and I’ve been in DSPAI for a year. My agent identities are that I am a White, cisgender young adult and United States citizen with a Christian, heteronormative upbringing. My target identities include being female, bisexual, agnostic and physically disabled. My journey of understanding privilege before joining this group […]
Thoughts on ICD + SJ
Dr. Melissa Kennedy 1) APA mandated competency of health service psych – ICD: The strengths of the competency are that it offers insight into the lived experiences of clients/patients and offers some glimpses of the Coloniality of Being. However, the current literature and perspectives do not consider the Coloniality of Power and the “dark side” […]