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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bit better now since covid. Once a week is fine but more that is grim and draining.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Sep 1

Start of September - a new season; a new term for some of us. If you are looking for ways to connect with other therapists/ feminists this autmumn, have a look at our upcoming events and gatherings! Full details via bio
#TherapistSky
#TherapistsConnect
#FeministTherapy

A text-heavy flyer. The heading reads 'Coming up this autumn!' and is followed by:

Online reading group
Subversive Dialogues: theory in feminist therapy. Begins September 19th

Community conversations – online and peer-led:
Taking Care of Trans Folks: responsibilities and allyship, 26th Sept 4pm
Dual Relationships 21st October 6pm
Reclaiming a Feminist Therapeutics, 27th November 7pm

The Feminist Imagination in Therapy
In-person all day event on Saturday 11th October

Writing As Coalition Building: a feminist writing group for clinicians
Monthly online group on the second Sunday of the month, 2-4pm UK time, starting in November 2025.

Perspectives in Feminist Therapy 25 hour introductory online course beginning November. Applications open.

Black Feminism and Womanism: therapeutic perspectives
Next course running in Spring 2026. Opening for applications in autumn

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Onlinevents @onlinevents.bsky.social · Aug 30

NEXT WEEK!
Black Women Therapists: Challenging the 'Strong Black Woman' Archetype - LIVE event with Mary Pascall.

This event is LIVE only.
Use the link below to register.
buff.ly/CA0mwSY
#therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling

Black Women Therapists: Challenging the 'Strong Black Woman' Archetype

Black Women Therapists: Challenging the 'Strong Black Woman' Archetype Workshop with Mary Pascall

buff.ly

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 30

What's the migration crisis?

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 30

We should just let Finland know how easy it is.

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Makes sense in the brave new world they want to build. Of course it may end up more dystopian than that...

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 29

"We put so much stock in communality that a different stance is understood as pathology." I can't see the imperative towards community. Conformity? Yeah. I think when anyone talks about what COULD be OUR superpower we should always acknowledge that it's not because it wouldn't make the system run

🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · Aug 28

Really interesting read for others who don't feel (or work with someone who doesn't feel) like they belong - www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #TherapistSky

Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower

Some people spend their lives feeling out of place in groups – but this tendency comes with unique opportunities

www.theguardian.com

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

"To have a drag queen read a picture book is supposedly indoctrination, but ‘Beauty and the Beast’ can be shared in almost every home because apparently it’s fine to teach a three-year-old that sometimes you just have to love a man enough and he’ll come good."
archermagazine.com.au/2023/10/quee...

Queer fairy tales: Finding the 'fairies' in classic stories - Archer Magazine

Retelling is a means of refracting the white beam of light we’ve been given by the fairy tale canon, and revealing the rainbow within.

archermagazine.com.au

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Why does this picture show white tourists? Do we still really want to be equating privilege with deep and fulfilling joy?

Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · Aug 28

"The happiest people aren't necessarily those who have figured out their grand purpose in life. They are the ones who have found meaningful ways to connect with others through activities that bring them joy." Here's why.

The Purpose-Happiness Connection

Think purpose leads to happiness? Not quite. The real key is connection—and your passions might be the secret bridge. Discover how "little-p" purpose fuels true joy.

www.psychologytoday.com

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Why does this picture show white tourists?

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anyone decent will be lucky to get anything but bones if it goes that way.

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

I also wonder how this would shift training if we reframed who most needs therapy and who is capable of providing it.

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

What if we, as therapists, conceptualised whiteness as a mental health condition and white supremacy and racist violence as merely it's most harmful presentation. Can we look at the other ways it presents?
#TherapistsConnect #Whiteness

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Starmer is showing the kind of courage he has always had; to stand against any progressive voice in the Labour Party and bear the scorn and rage for selling us down the river to the fash

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ah if only the whataboutery were ever looking for answers..

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 27

They are so great! Love that book

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 15

My colleague Dr. Frances Basset and I are holding another group in early September in Brighton. If you're a therapist in the area involved in antiracism or anti-oppressive practice come along. We will be examining whiteness and its impacts as a group together.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-...

Examining Whiteness Sept. 6th 2025

We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Churchill? What about the other moral heroes of old? Surely queen victoria will also be shedding tears over the debauching of her legacy?

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 26

What about the other moral heroes of old? Surely queen victoria will also be shedding tears over the debauching of her legacy?

Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · Aug 26

Nigel Farage wants to follow Putin and tear up our hard-won rights.

Photo of Daisy Cooper MP. Quote from Cooper "Of course Nigel Farage wants to follow his idol Vladimir Putin in ripping up the human rights convention.
Winston Churchill would be turning in his grave.
Doing so would only make it harder for each of us as individuals to hold the government to account and stop it trampling on our freedoms."
DAISY COOPER MP

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Feminist Imagination in Therapy is an in-person, one-day event for anyone who would like to think about ways of bridging the political and personal in therapy. Join us for a day of discussion and imagination! Ticket link in bio.
#Feminism
#TherapistSky
#TherapistsConnect

A flyer for The Feminist Imagination in Therapy.

Text reads:
An event for therapists trying to bridge the personal and political – a day of figuring it out together.
Saturday October 11th 2025
10am – 5pm
Islington, London
Hot lunch included
7-hour CPD certification

There are photographs of Dr Lola Olufemi and Micha Frazer-Carroll with more text next the the photographs:

Presentations and provocations from:
Dr. Lola Olufemi (Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power; Experiments in Imagining Otherwise)
Micha Frazer-Carroll (Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health)

With time for discussion, and exploring questions through reflective dialogue / art-making practices.
Come and join us in imagining how else we might practice -
the personal is still political!

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Forgotten by Westminster is funny when it's just the fuck up younger sibling "forgotten" by the miserable older one telling them to grow up and suffer already. Same shit family business

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's also funny that any American patriot thinks their flag means something different for people around the world.

Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Have asylum seekers ever destroyed a country? Nope. Fascists have though, quite a few times.

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 25

I had to see it to believe it. All over sussex white people have created their own communities, their own schools where whitewashed history is taught exclusively and the royal family is celebrated along with britains colonial history.

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · Aug 23

👇 #LlanafanFawr

@andydavies4.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social #ICYMI

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Why here?’: inside mid-Wales village where far-right figure has created a settlement

Woodlander Initiative provokes mixed reactions in Llanafan Fawr as critics say aim is to build racially exclusive communities

www.theguardian.com

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · Aug 25

#smallboats

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