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Feature by Nikita Fernandes  Historical narratives shape people’s understanding of events. From museums like the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art to films like Stonewall Uprising, queer history has been showcased and depicted in a multitude of ways. However, it is important to recognize the whitewashing of history. Whitewashing refers to leaving out important events and marginalized communities in history. To shape a white narrative, queer people of color have been left out of the LGBTQIA+ history narrative. This is done to keep the dominant group in power and white cisgender males are often credited for milestones in the queer movements. However, people of color have been pioneers in the field of queer history and deserve to be recognized and applauded for their integral work that led to progress.
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Feature by Nikita Fernandes  Via Pixabay Narrative Therapy has emerged as one of the most powerful types of therapy to support minority communities. It has gained popularity in 2022 along with the rise of movements such as the Black Lives Matter and the focus on mental health after the pandemic. Narrative therapy is relatively new. It was developed in the 1980's by Michael White, an Australian social worker, and David Epston, a family therapist from New Zealand. It gained traction in the United States in the 1990's.
Narrative therapy is a nonpathologizing, empowering and collaborative experience for clients who hold minority identities. The empowering nature of this therapy can be experienced through nudging clients to reframe their past experiences, gain control over their present and shape a better future. Narrative therapy uses prompts to have client reflect over the stories they tell themselves about their life. For example, a therapist might ask a client to write about their past struggles and highlight what helped keep them afloat. This strengths based approach can help remind clients that they are much more resilient than they believe. Feature by Nikita Fernandes  Via Unsplash On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and took away the constitutional right to abortion. People in America woke up to a post-Roe world where access to abortion dramatically changed the lives of millions of Americans. Protests started over the country as people loudly defended the right to have autonomy over their own bodies and personal choices. There has been much discussion over what this ruling means for a polarized country that seems to get more divided as time passes. Although there has been much deliberation and dialogue about what this means for people, a majority of it has revolved around a person’s right to choose for themselves.
Overturning Roe v. Wade, at its surface, is driven by the Evangelical Christian value that abortion and contraception are seen as unnatural and sinful. However, the silent message and value that is not being spoken about and has not received much attention - sexual liberation of marginalized communities have been shunned for decades and policed by conservative religious ideology; overturning Roe. v Wade is another method of shaming and controlling sex. Feature by Nikita Fernandes  Via Pixabay Richard Schwartz created the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to work with clients who held conflicting views of themselves. He explained these conflicts as having various parts within ourselves. As human beings, we are made up of different parts that serve specific functions. Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. The mind is considered to be naturally made up of multiple sub-personalities or families within each individual’s mental system. These sub-personalities take on different roles, such as an inner critic or inner child, and consist of wounded parts and painful feelings like anger and shame.
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