Topic(s): 
Counselling
Mental Health and Addictions
National Social Work Month
Professional Practice
Webinar event date: 
Mar 6, 2023 1:00 pm EST
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Webinar Presenters: 

Khadijah Kanji (she/her) (MSW, RSW) works in program evaluation for a university-based agency serving Ontario's youth programming sector; and as a clinical supervisor, group therapist and individual therapist, with a particular interest in serving 2SLGBTQ+ BIPOC.  Khadijah also does anti-Islamophobia education and activism for an Islamic cultural centre; and writes and speaks regularly on issues of race, gender, and sexuality.

Description

In North America, psychiatry has, historically, been a tool of domination – used to justify and enforce settler-colonialism, slavery, and other systems and practices based on racist, classist, ableist, homophobic, and transphobic logic. 

In this webinar, we examine this history as a means to understand the present – discovering that while psychiatric/mental health knowledge and practice has certainly evolved, it serves a continuous function of aiding and abetting an oppressive status quo. 

Indeed, if oppression requires discipline and control, then what better instrument than a body of knowledge/practice tasked with defining and enforcing the ‘normal’?