Living at the Intersection: Reflections on the Graduate Student Experience
Welcome to APAGS‘s new blog column on intersecting identities! Each of us has a complex combination of personal identities, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability...
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Finding a Cultural Identity: An Intersectional Autobiography Guest columnist: Christian Chan, George Washington University Writing about my own personal lived experiences is a meaningful action to...
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A Moment in the Life of a Single Mom Graduate Student Guest columnist: Teresa Hulsey, B.A., University of North Texas I look at the clock. It is 2:00 in the morning and I can finally sleep after...
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Guest columnist: Bianca Poindexter, Northeastern University, Class of 2015 What social identities do you currently identify as most central to you? I identify as Black, Queer, Cis-Woman, Able-Bodied,...
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Guest columnist: Meredith A. Martyr, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Class of 2019 What social identities do you currently identify as most central to you? I identify as Pansexual, Feminist, and...
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Guest columnist: Craig Describe an instance where you were “forced” to choose or represent one identity over another. How did you negotiate this instance? What did you learn from this experience? As a...
View ArticleIf You Do One Thing to Encourage Girls of Color to Become Psychologists, Make...
Not too long ago, psychology was a discipline dominated by white males. Change came slowly in the wake of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements of the 1960s and ‘70s. But even before then, a few...
View ArticleNational Graduate Student in Psychology Die-In on April 4
Editor’s Note: This post is submitted by Luciano Lima, a doctoral student at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, in Chicago, Illinois. APAGS does not have an official...
View ArticleDid you get my text? Processing biases over iMessage
The following dialogue occurred subsequent to last fall’s gradPSYCH blog post, “The Gift of They“ where an emerging psychologist embraced referring to his client using the plural pronoun of “they.”...
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Guest columnist: Charity R. Lane, Regent University, Class of 2016 My identity as a Christian woman not only holds deep meaning for my life but also directs its course, which has been the reason for...
View ArticleNational Die-In Recap
Fellow Advocates for Social Justice, First, I want to apologize for the interval between the National Die-In and this post. I had two weeks of finals immediately after our Die-In and was focused on...
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Guest columnist: Maya Pignatore, Nova Southeastern University What social identities do you currently identify as most central to you? I identify as bisexual woman, psychologist, wife, daughter,...
View ArticleA Note from your Chair: Orlando Strong
Friends and colleagues, I sit with tears in my eyes as I write this. Just over 24 hours after hearing the news of the horrific tragedy in Orlando, I am still in shock, not sure what to say, and unsure...
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By Julia Benjamin, Chair of the APAGS Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (CSOGD) And James J. García, Chair of the APAGS Committee for the Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Diversity...
View ArticleTake the ally challenge!
I am sick of writing posts in the wake of tragedies, and sickened to know that unless something drastically changes, they will continue to happen as they have for so many years. But I also know we can...
View ArticleAPAGS Convention Tracks – Diversity
This year, the APAGS Convention Committee has put graduate student programming at Convention into tracks: Diversity, Professional Development, Science, and Internship. We’ve done so with an eye for how...
View ArticleHow Much Do Black Lives Matter to the APA?
As a student member of the APA and a psychologist in training, I’ve been disappointed in the American Psychological Association’s (APA) public response to the deaths of African American’s at the hands...
View ArticleAn Account of Invisible Disability in Graduate Psychology Training
“But you look so healthy, I’m sure you’ll be fine.” You would never know that I have a disability from just looking at me. To most people, I appear to be healthy and well-adjusted for my age. Enrolled...
View ArticleInternational Students and Clinical Work: Overcoming Challenges
As a part of their graduate coursework, all students in the applied psychology fields (clinical, counseling, and school psychology) are required to obtain clinical training. International students in...
View ArticleREPOST – Racial Trauma is Real: The Impact of Police Shootings on African...
Racial Trauma is Real: The Impact of Police Shootings on African Americans From Psychology Benefits Society, a blog from the APA Public Interest Directorate • July 14, 2016 By By Erlanger A. Turner,...
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