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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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…

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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...

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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.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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...

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m thinking you probably have to fight them first. The system seems to be shitty that way. But if you can’t finish them, it might offer the companion option. That said, most of the cat owners probably didn’t make it.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m listening to it now. Just heard the description of the universal system takeover. What do you think happened to family dogs? Automatic beast companions? Or Fido just tries to eat you?

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

@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👍🏾

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It still gives me chills remembering the Riders had been singing while they fought, but after Théoden died they stopped singing and started chanting “Death!” It’s the turn…

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

When your wife sees you and loves the whole you, you might get something like this for Christmas.

Hand holding ornate book with fancy cocktails on cover. Titled Puncheons & Flagons. The official Dungeons & Dragons Cocktail Guide

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

So you sent me down a Reddit rabbit hole. It started out fine… But there was a turn… there is always a turn….

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

lol, enough to cause a family argument. But I grew up calling this chocolate cake.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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…

Image of layered cake that’s yellow with chocolate icing.

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Hector Y. Adames @dradames.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

📣 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.

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Citation:

Adames, H. Y., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Jernigan, M. M., & Helms, J. E. (2024). Racism-conscious reflexivity in qualitative research: A practical methodological framework. Qualitative Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000315

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Advancing research methodologies grounded in critical theories and fostering scientific knowledge conscious of racism require thoughtfulness, integrity, rigor, and an unwavering commitment to racial justice. It demands that we, as researchers, pause and reflect—that we consider the multitude of ways that our racial socialization, biases, and all levels of racism (e.g., systemic, interpersonal, internalized) influence the entire research process. This article advocates for qualitative researchers to take a deliberate pause and engage in thoughtful reflection about racism, racial identity, power, and bias, as well as the importance and ethics of questioning methodologies to help prevent the creation of racially oppressive scholarship. To achieve this goal, we present the racism-conscious reflexivity in research (RCR) framework, which invites researchers to actively pay attention to how (a) racial identity schemas, (b) racialized cognitive and emotional biases, (c) information processing strategies, and (d) social interactions between and among research team members shape all aspects of a research study. The RCR framework also considers how these four areas influence how researchers respond to and think about racism, its influence on people’s experiences, and its operations in research methodologies. Coding scenarios are used to illustrate the application of the RCR framework in the analysis and interpretation process of qualitative research. Methodological guidance is provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I always look at folks funny when they say academia should be ran more like a business… I could have sworn most businesses fail 👀

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Dare you to go touch the outside of your front door.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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… 🤬

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Actually, my understanding is that the “micro” refers to the level of clarity of the aggression. The issue with microaggressions is that the target has difficulty telling if the aggression is just in their head. This lack of clarity causes mental discomfort and fatigue as folks ruminate on it.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Like, its hella funny how that works. Cause, like the young people connotation that like continues even though the actual young people who like really use the word, are like in their 40s now… (15 year old me is smiling 😁)

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Healthy boundaries are understanding the difference between their needs and your responsibilities.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/12/2024

“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

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

All this to say, we [therapists] sacrifice a lot to do this work. I wonder if we talk enough about our working conditions and whether we should demand better from the systems that need us to function and our colleagues who are empowered within them. What are your thoughts?

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

But at this time I was early career and I was standing up to her while feeling very afraid and vulnerable…

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thinking back now, I should have went to HR and negotiated a different start time, and I should have complained about her abusive behavior…

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Anyway, there was never a resolution. For years she would complain and for years I reminded her that it was not her job to police my comings and goings.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm not gonna mention 😉 that I had white colleges that came in late and left early who she never had a conflict with… 👀

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

She wanted me to take 8 a.m. clients and thought it was unfair that I didn’t keep the same schedule as my colleagues who lived down the street and did not have to get up at 5:30 a.m. to get to work on time.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This director would actually watch for me to enter the building to track my arrival time. Then would try to intimidate me into taking the train an hour earlier so that I could be there on time (waiting 45min for the place to open)…

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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…

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Check out this list of psychologists who focus their work on understanding and combatting the blight of racism and the pain that it causes.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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!

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Dr. Thema @drthema.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Be grateful for the kind of friends who show up emotionally, spiritually, and practically. Presence is a gift.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

“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.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We have witnessed white people go through withdrawal for the past 16yrs from white supremacist fascist regime that they thought ended with Obama.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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)

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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?”

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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.

Image of kitchen cabinets and counters, built-in ovens, a microwave and cooktop.

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Dr. Bedford Palmer II @drbfpalmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Just in case you are looking for a therapist. www.deeperthancolor.com

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