Drama Therapy Coalition 4 Justice

07/23/2022

Mood ✨✨✨

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“Might f**k around and end intergenerational cycles of trauma, reparent my inner child, and actively heal my lineage towards our collective liberation in honor of my descendants, my ancestors, and the earth.”

07/15/2022

Know any youth (ages 12-17) in the Bay Area who love live-action role playing, mystery, fun, and adventure?

There are still spots available at Gamescape Center's incredible RPG summer camp this August (including low income and sliding scale openings)!

Head over to https://www.gamescapecenter.org/ to register today 💕

A teaser for our premiere event! A LARP day camp the week of August 1-5, 2022. A Live Action Role Play event built on Son of Oak Games' City of Mist for adol...

07/09/2022

Do you know any kids (ages 12-18) looking for an awesome affordable camp this summer? 🌈

Check out this event (put on by Gamescape Center for Creativity and Growth) that some of our members are helping to facilitate!

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RPG MYSTERY QUEST FIELD DAYS

August 1 - 5, 2022 10:30am-2:30pm
Orinda, California

A five-day, kid (12+) and teen (

01/17/2022

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Why are Professors in charge of determining who “deserves” academic accommodations? 🤔

Let’s talk about a critical issue for MMIND (mad, labeled as mentally ill, neurodivergent, and Disabled folks) in academic spaces: the people who get to determine whether or not we are given accommodations are not connected to Disability Services and often have no competent training (or training at all) on how to navigate accommodations.

Through our work and collective experiences, Professors are given all of the power to determine whether or not your accommodation is “reasonable” (which is extremely vague). Professors often determine if something is reasonable based on how convenient it is for them personally (and not ADA guidelines) - often without material support or guidance from Disability Services. And most Professors are operating from deeply ableist and sanist mindsets that lead them to believe students who request accommodations are trying to cheat the system or get an “advantage” over other students, or that we are not as capable as other students who do not request accommodations.

In reality, the entire process needs to be abolished and is set up for MMIND students fail — particularly those who live at the intersections of multiple forms of oppression that make competent health care, consistent medical records, and access to diagnoses or expensive evaluations nearly impossible. In an ideal world, there would be no accommodations process — because collective access would be the goal, and all of our classrooms and educational spaces would be set up with the understanding that all bodyminds are unique, and have different needs and requirements for learning.

But until that happens, it is unethical and nonsensical for Professors to be making these final determinations. It is often a full time job trying to access accommodations that Disability Services has already
"approved" us. Many of us simply give up and suffer without accommodations because it is simply too hard, exhausting, and confusing to navigate these systems.

01/13/2022

We stand in solidarity with NUHW Healthcare Union] workers 🔥 So powerful to see mental healthcare workers rising up against structural racism ✊

STRIKE INFO: Mental health workers at in Oakland & Richmond strike on MLK Day (Jan. 17) in Oakland after Kaiser backtracks promise to honor it as a paid holiday in 2022, another example of Kaiser doublespeak on anti-racism. Read more NUHW Healthcare Union] ✨

01/11/2022

A HUGE misconception that folks have about organizing and activism is that they need a whole new skill set to get involved. We’ll need ALL skills in the fight for liberation. You already have what you need 🔥🔥🔥

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“Now is the time. It’s time to step up to tear down the systems in place that oppresses us. If we move together we can get a lot done so weaponize whatever talents you have to help the revolution. You can be good at organizing, you can make art, you can make snacks for protests, you can cyber bully your racist mayor/ government, anything to help put pressure where it needs to be. We need black liberation. We need trans liberation. Now.”

[Image: “BRING YOUR SKILLS TO THE REVOLUTION” written in bold purple lettering on a pink and blue background. A blue swirl and sparkles adorn the lettering.]

01/05/2022

This.

“Some white people in US history were slave owners & other white people were abolitionists.

Parents who think teaching about America’s history of racism shames white kids should reflect on why they think white kids will associate more with slave owner guilt than with abolitionist pride.”

01/04/2022

⚠️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ⚠️

I know some of y’all out there are doing some 🔥🔥🔥 work around anti-racism, disability justice, equity, and collective liberation in our field. Let’s get our voices into this next issue 🗣

The Drama Therapy Review invites scholars, artists, researchers, activists, creative arts therapists, and interested persons around the world to submit work for consideration for our upcoming General Issue 8.2. The deadline for submission is the 1st of February 2022 📝

Click out to view submission guidelines or email [email protected] for more details.

12/22/2021

Don’t let the noise fool you 🔥

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“Academia loves diversity and
inclusion so as long they mean
trainings, workshops, hiring
language, and required statements
for applications. Don't ever suggest
making it could mean paying
graduate students a living wage, or
unionizing faculty, or anything that
might work.”

12/18/2021

Again for folks in the back 👏

Thank you to .hill for this important analysis 🔥

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Slide 1: Psychiatric + Mental Health Industrial Complex (PMHIC) Propaganda is Insidious (a thread)

Slide 2: I was recently reflecting on why a common platitude I hear a lot in mental health spaces irks me - the saying is “You’re not responsible for what happened to you, but you are responsible for recovering”

I’ve seen it so often in mental health spaces and it’s always made me feel icky.

Slide 3: I asked in my stories for folks to help me garner language around it and to get perspective -- I’ll share some responses from comrades later in the thread (thank you, everyone).

Slide 4: It led me to a deeper reflection on how most ‘mental health’ platitudes and common phrases we hear (think “It’s Okay to Get Help!”) are formulated from the PMHIC, not by those with lived experience and they’re often broadly accepted at face value and become part of this general collective vernacular.

Slide 5: The problem is as these types of phrases promote ableism, saneism, and stigma for those who are not “getting help” or “being responsible” in their recovery. Basically, it shames anyone who is struggling or not fitting into a narrow ‘normative’ way of being.

These phrases are so heinously narrow, they ignore the broader cultural context (systemic oppression, white supremacy, colonialism, homophobia, transphobia) in which we are placed.

Slide 6: Instead, these phrases promote the ideal that anyone with mental illness, madness, or neurodivergence needs to simply treat their mental health like a job and if you work hard enough you can fix it - to be a ‘productive’ member of a capitalistic society. It puts the onus solely on the individual and if we aren’t doing well, then s**t, just *try harder*

Slide 7: So this is a gentle invitation to reflect on this type of propaganda when you see it. It’s insidious and sneaky and otherizing for those who might have unique brain functions.

12/11/2021

Help Students of Color Finance Their Self-Revs ✨

The Drama Therapy Coalition for Justice is a non-hierarchical group of CIIS students and alumni working to combat racism and systemic oppression in our field.

We tremendously value the self-revelatory performance capstone project offered by CIIS, and believe that all students deserve equal access this process.

While most students who go through the drama therapy program choose to do a self-rev for their capstone project, many BIPOC students are unable to afford the financial burden placed on them by this process.

We believe it is essential that all students, regardless of race, class background, and ability, are able to have a chance to do a self-rev at the end of their time in the program.

Please donate here to support BIPOC students in the drama therapy program! These funds will be used to ensure that future students of color have financial support in accessing:

- a self-rev director
- dress rehearsal time
- additional technical support
- other costs incurred by students throughout this process

The Drama Therapy Coalition for Justice is supported entirely through community funds. You can find us on social media , or contact us at [email redacted] to learn more about how to support marginalized students in our department.

Visit: https://www.gofundme.com/help-students-of-color-finance-their-selfrevs

12/11/2021

The Black Psychology Program at CIIS is hosting a wellness worksop next week!

When: December 16, 2021
4pm - 6pm PST

Topic: Embodied Wellness

THE PRESENTERS

Lanéay L. London is the chief executive officer of Serenity Village Developments, a 501-c3 organization dedicated to providing holistic health and housing education to individuals and families

Damali Robertson joins the California Institute of Integral Studies as Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion after a 15-year career in progressive non-profit leadership

Meeting ID: 927 5623 6175
Passcode: 279805