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Feminism and Talking Therapies
5 minute readGrowing up in Turkey in the 1960s with more than a few ethics and dogmas imposed on women; and as a young woman at the time, I constantly felt repressed and stifled. I had been trying to figure…
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Reflections on Black feminism, womanism and therapy
7 minute readPsychotherapist and researcher Claudia Coussins (she/her) reflects on her relationship to Black feminism, womanism and therapy and on the FTN’s upcoming course which she is curating and facilitating, starting on May 6th 2025. The more I immerse myself…
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The value of knowing our queer history
4 minute readTo celebrate Pride Month, we are reposting LV Penman’s reflection on the value of knowing our queer histories. Their original post can be found here. As it’s currently LGBT+ History Month, I want to reflect on the value…
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What do you hear when you hear the word feminism? – Rebecca Esho Greenslade
8 minute readIn her introduction to Living a Feminist Life (2017) Sara Ahmed poses a question: what do you hear when you hear the word feminism? It’s not an easy question to answer, at least not for me. But feminism is…
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TACTT’s final response to the UKCP
6 minute readThis final response to the UKCP was posted on TACTT’s website on January 24th 2024. Reposted with permission. On 2nd November 2023, UKCP published “guidance regarding gender critical views” for their members. We were very concerned by this guidance…
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A Brief Introduction to Consciousness-Raising Groups
3 minute readThis brief introduction to consciousness-raising is an edited extract from Rebecca Esho Greenslade’s forthcoming article “Truth-Speaking And Consciousness-Raising: Parrhesia And Feminist Psychotherapy”. The first requirement for raising class consciousness is honesty, in private and in public, with ourselves…
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TACTT response to UKCP’s latest statement on ‘gender-critical’ views (Update 12/12/23)
4 minute readThis follow up letter to the UKCP was posted on TACTT’s website on December 13th 2023. Reposted with permission. The UKCP have now issued a response, which you can read on their website. TACTT will reply to this…
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Open letter to UKCP about their guidance regarding so-called ‘gender-critical’ views
14 minute readOn 13th November 2023, Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia (TACTT) sent an open letter to the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) in response to the UKCP’s recent statement on gender critical views. With permissison, the FTN is…
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Gender is a Verb
13 minute readA response to the Society of Existential Analysis (SEA) conference 2022 after leading a trans-supportive forum Trans people have been dehumanized, reduced to a talking point or conceptual problem: an ‘issue’ to be discussed and debated endlessly. It…
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Protest and Praxis: withdrawing from the SEA Conference
10 minute readWe are all implicated in the violence against trans people when we allow their lives and the harm they face to be diminished by a media circus … we have a duty to dismantle that circus and redirect…
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What do you hear when you hear the word feminism? – LV Penman
4 minute readI’ve been aware of and interested in feminism on and off for most of my life. I first remember encountering feminist ideas when I was a child. This was partly through my family, and partly through the representations…
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What do you hear when you hear the word feminism? – Lania Narjee
3 minute readWhat do you hear when you hear the word feminism? I think of the eternal conundrum of what comes first, your race or your gender? Can feminism exist in a world so heavily imbued with anti-blackness? Is there feminism when…
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Feminist Friendship, Therapeutic Resistance
13 minute readRecently in the feminist supervision-reading groups I facilitate, we read an interview with Michel Foucault called Friendship as a Way of Life that was first published in 1981 in Gai Pied, a French gay magazine founded by Jean…
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Love and Liberation: the consulting room as liberatory praxis
12 minute readThis post is an edited version of a presentation given at the 2023 Inaugural bell hooks Symposium: Dissident Feminisms, June 16th – 18th 2023 at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. The symposium was sponsored by the bell hooks…