Britton Williams's guest appearances

Britton Williams

Twisting the Plot

If You Could See Me Conversations

Ashton Applewhite

Chip Conley

Cindy Gallop

Betty Buckley

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Jeanne Chung

Nikki Giovanni

Mary Testa

Richard Thompson

David Stewart

Erin Olivo

Lesley Jane Seymour

Laura Davis

Darcey Steinke

Stephanie Krikorian

OwlTail

Britton Williams is a PhD candidate in the Program in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center (CUNY) where she is a member of the inaugural Mellon Humanities Public Fellows cohort. Her research and work interests include Black aesthetics in mental health care, carceral logics embedded in care systems, Black liberatory praxis, bias in clinical practice, spatial oppression, community care, community justice, role theory, and trauma-informed care.She is also the founder of The Black Map Project (https://www.thebmp.org/index.html).  Which is dedicated to tracing the histories of Black healing through Music, Performance, Embodied and Enacted Praxes. Specifically, this archival research project is concerned with the ways in which Black people(s) have created and engaged in music, arts, and embodied practices as healing and liberatory praxis. This archival research project is part of my dissertation research that seeks to disrupt current manifestations of mental health treatment and (re)imagine mental health care that reflects/resembles/supports Black people. The history of psychiatry/psychology and larger mental health field is steeped in racialized violence and oppression. Enslaved peoples who sought freedom through escape were once labeled with a disorder termed drapetomania. Black people’s drive and desire for freedom was pathologized. This is only one example of the ways in which Black people have been oppressed under the guise of “treatment.” Black experiences and research amplify the chronic and embedded nature of racialized violence and oppression in mental health care; Black people experience racial discrimination at every level of mental health care. Carceral cruelties are embedded within care systems and disproportionately harm Black people. Furthermore, Black people have largely been left out of mental health knowledge production. This project privileges Black knowledge and lived experiences. Specifically, this project uplifts the embodied praxes that Black people have engaged in throughout history to express, disrupt, resist and dream. Black people know hurt and healing intimately. This work looks to Black knowledge in support of a co-creation of community knowledge in support of our continued survival and towards liberation.

Britton Williams is a PhD candidate in the Program in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center (CUNY) where she is a member of the inaugural Mellon Humanities Public Fellows cohort. Her research and work interests include Black aesthetics in mental health care, carceral logics embedded in care systems, Black liberatory praxis, bias in clinical practice, spatial oppression, community care, community justice, role theory, and trauma-informed care. She is also the founder of The Black Map Project (<a href="https://www.thebmp.org/index.html)" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thebmp.org/index.html)</a>. Which is dedicated to tracing the histories of Black healing through Music, Performance, Embodied and Enacted Praxes. Specifically, this archival research project is concerned with the ways in which Black people(s) have created and engaged in music, arts, and embodied practices as healing and liberatory praxis. This archival research project is part of my dissertation research that seeks to disrupt current manifestations of mental health treatment and (re)imagine mental health care that reflects/resembles/supports Black people. The history of psychiatry/psychology and larger mental health field is steeped in racialized violence and oppression. Enslaved peoples who sought freedom through escape were once labeled with a disorder termed drapetomania. Black people’s drive and desire for freedom was pathologized. This is only one example of the ways in which Black people have been oppressed under the guise of “treatment.” Black experiences and research amplify the chronic and embedded nature of racialized violence and oppression in mental health care; Black people experience racial discrimination at every level of mental health care. Carceral cruelties are embedded within care systems and disproportionately harm Black people. Furthermore, Black people have largely been left out of mental health knowledge production. This project privileges Black knowledge and lived experiences. Specifically, this project uplifts the embodied praxes that Black people have engaged in throughout history to express, disrupt, resist and dream. Black people know hurt and healing intimately. This work looks to Black knowledge in support of a co-creation of community knowledge in support of our continued survival and towards liberation.

Coffee and Conversation with Guest Britton Williams

What is Intersectionality? And why is it important? We learn from Britton Williams about social-cultural identity, biases and how our multiple identities influence the way we age. Britton is an educator, a creative arts therapist and a writer. She is willing to enter these conversations with openness and curiosity. She is also a wonderful storyteller. So much fun, and so much wisdom. Enjoy. http://www.thehealingstage.com

What is Intersectionality? And why is it important? We learn from Britton Williams about social-cultural identity, biases and how our multiple identities influence the way we age. Britton is an educator, a creative arts therapist and a writer. She is willing to enter these conversations with openness and curiosity. She is also a wonderful storyteller. So much fun, and so much wisdom. Enjoy. <a href="http://www.thehealingstage.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thehealingstage.com</a>

Summer Replay - Understanding Intersectionality. A lesson with Britton Williams

What is Intersectionality? And why is it important?  We learn from Britton Williams about social-cultural identity, biases and how our multiple identities influence the way we age.  Britton is an educator, a creative arts therapist and a writer.  She is willing to enter these conversations with openness and curiosity.  She is also a wonderful storyteller.  So much fun, and so much wisdom.   Enjoy. http://www.thehealingstage.com

What is Intersectionality? And why is it important?  We learn from Britton Williams about social-cultural identity, biases and how our multiple identities influence the way we age.  Britton is an educator, a creative arts therapist and a writer.  She is willing to enter these conversations with openness and curiosity.  She is also a wonderful storyteller.  So much fun, and so much wisdom.   Enjoy. <a href="http://www.thehealingstage.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thehealingstage.com</a>