Dr. Bedford Palmer II
@drbfpalmer.bsky.social
Licensed Counseling Psychologist, Professor of Counseling Saint Mary’s College of California, CEO & Founder Deeper Than Color, Author of Daddy Why Am I Brown & Black Joy #MentalHealth #Academic #BlackPsychology - My opinions are my own. deeperthancolor.com
Every social ill in the US that causes suffering and neglect is directly related to white people’s apparent need to inflict the most degradation possible upon Black people. Even at the cost of inflicting the same suffering and death on white people. #healthcare #education #criminaljustice
I see all the propaganda telling people not to go to college and for academics to quit, and I wonder who benefits most from a less knowledgable people…
How many people are going to die because #USAID are not being allowed to distribute food? We need to talk about American Nazis starving Black and Brown people on a whim? www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
How Trump’s USAID overhaul could lead to famine in Sudan
Across Sudan's capital, Khartoum, 742 kitchens serving around 816,000 people have closed, said a spokesperson for the civilian-led Emergency Response Rooms.
nbcnews.com
If you know folks impacted by the fire in Altadena, please let them know that my company, Deeper Than Color, is providing FREE virtual support groups! We have one today at 10:30am! RSVP here: lu.ma/user/deepert...
@oldskurv.bsky.social when I went to breakfast this morning I decided to call my gram, I mean instantly to. I also wasn’t feeling the sausage patties, so I had do click the links menu too👍🏾
Does anyone remember the first time you read Return of The King? The scene where Théoden gives his speech to the Riders of Rohan before the battle for Gondor… The film adaptation was amazing, but reading it… Éomer actually gave death verse.
When your wife sees you and loves the whole you, you might get something like this for Christmas.
Was looking at TikTok saw a video with folks arguing about what you call a cake that is yellow and has chocolate icing… Let me know what you think…
📣 Excited to share our latest @apajournals.bsky.social publication on addressing racism in psychological science. 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... Honored to collaborate with @nchavez.bsky.social, @mindfield-drj.bsky.social, and Dr. Helms, scholars dedicated to building a more humane future.
I always look at folks funny when they say academia should be ran more like a business… I could have sworn most businesses fail 👀
If you walk into a small barbershop, sit down, then have to go outside to hawk up a lugie after a productive cough and you ain’t wearing a mask… 😷 I hope they push your line back 4 inches… 🤬
Healthy boundaries are understanding the difference between their needs and your responsibilities.
“An unprecedented massacre.” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) annual report finds Israeli army killed 18 journalists – two in Lebanon and 16 in Gaza – as they were working this year. 🔗: aje.io/sgb6tk
I just had a pretty visceral memory of a recurring back-and-forth between me and a pretty nasty clinical director. At one point in my career I commuted over an hour to my job. It was a salary job, so time sheets weren’t a thing. But I usually got in 15min after the place opened…
Check out this list of psychologists who focus their work on understanding and combatting the blight of racism and the pain that it causes.
Hector Y. Adames@dradames.bsky.social · 2y ago#JoinUs 🦋 Racism and Racial Trauma Scholars in Psychology. Let me know if you want to be added.
If you are a counseling psychologist, you should get on this list! If you want to understand the strength-based, more social justice oriented, scientist-practitioner tradition within psychology, you should follow the psychologists on this list!
Andrés Pérez-Rojas, PhD@aperezrojas.bsky.social · 2y agoI have created a #CounselingPsychology starter pack! Counseling psych is a growing presence here 😃 Please share! And sorry if I’ve missed anyone—let me know if you want to be added or recommend someone to add!! go.bsky.app/87uptw5
Be grateful for the kind of friends who show up emotionally, spiritually, and practically. Presence is a gift.
Here are some brilliant psychologists you should follow if you are interested in social justice and psychology. (Let me know if you would like to be added) go.bsky.app/S5imFXt
“forced to make a split-second decision.” — Every decision is a split second decision! It’s a stupid thing to say and we need to stop acting like it makes sense. If fear caused a default response to murder people, then we need to take away their guns.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y agoNewly released video of the fatal November police shooting of Jazmir Tucker, a 15-year-old high school student in Akron, Ohio, has led to pointed questions from the city’s mayor and the teenager’s family about how officers handled the incident.
While we been occupied elsewhere Trump’s Postmaster General is actively destroying our public postal service. You have to go to the post office to send anything larger than a small envelope. (No tray door, just a slit for envelopes)
Facts! But for the folks needing help understanding this, ask yourself: “Are the people you listen to in happy, fulfilling relationships?” “And if so, do they act the same off the mic as do on the mic, or are they just playing a character?”
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2y agoMy Manosphere opinion is that men should not under any circumstances seek advice or opinions from other men on matters of manhood through any type of mass media & even if you satisfy that qualification you should only listen to men who care about your well-being specifically or are your therapist.
Standing in our new home, in the kitchen, enjoying a glass of good scotch. The house is quiet, the furnace thrumming, the refrigerator buzzing and whooshing. Everyone is asleep and safe. A moment of contentment. Good night y’all.
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." --Malcolm X
