Over two months ago, I released what has been referenced as a manifesto regarding the American Psychiatric Association and the psychiatric profession. Only those in the state of pathological denial that defines unexamined Whiteness would see that piece as the end rather than a beginning. …

“We know you think we are racist! You are the racist one!” The nurse declared this boldly and loudly in protest of the clinical decision I made as we stood in a small clinical room in earshot of patients. As one of two chief residents of medical education on an…

“Yet another paper about racism, this paper is useless and potentially harmful, fails to recognize what’s already being done. The language used in the paper is divisive and derogatory.” -Signed, Anonymous Colleague from the APA Assembly, November 2021 A generous clarification: Anti-Black racism is the name of the specific kind…

It was 7pm in my apartment situated just south of Boston where I have spent much of the recent months participating in antiracism efforts largely rooted in the tragic murder of a Black man. As I sat down in my red office chair to await the start of a psychoanalytic…