Psychic Militancy

Psychic Militancy Podcast
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A podcast that dissects the psycho-politico-affective dimensions of violent systems of power and militantly refocuses us on how we can remain aligned in our revolutionary anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial commitments to the world. Hosted by clinical psychologist Lara Sheehi.

  1. 5d ago

    IN SESSION #40: Urgent report back from Al-Mughayyir w/ Danyal Masoud, Hana Masud & Amin Al-Zaghoul

    I am releasing this episode out of order because it is an urgent report back from our Palestinian siblings from Al-Mughayyir, one of the Palestinian villages in the West Bank that is incurring increasing state and settler violence (one and the same, we know). Their testimony is moving, as it traces the ongoing asphyxiation of their village, the longstanding policies of attacks on life and life-making, including the ability for folks to sustain their lives through farming, the intrusions on intimate spaces of life, as well as their ongoing resistance and refusals to disappear from the land. Danyal Masoud is a certified spiritual and life coach with a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences. For more than 22 years, her work has centered around children, youth, women, and families, with a deep passion for helping people grow emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. Follow her on IG at: @danyal_pali @danyal.masoud Hana Masud, MA, PhD is a Palestinian scholar and educator working at the intersection of critical psychology, decolonial inquiry, and social justice scholarship. She co-authored and implemented CURCUM's Trees: A Decolonial Healing Guide for Palestinian Community Health Workers, including training and supervising community health workers in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, and co-edited the special issue Coloniality Unplugged: Cosmologies and Terrains of the Dark Matter in the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice (2022). She is also a co-founder of the Project Laban Collective, an emerging diasporic community space for relational care, community knowledge, critical consciousness, organizing, and explorations of sanctuary and world-making. Amin Al-Zaghoul has served as the head of the Al-Mughayyir Village Council for the past nine years. During his tenure, he has been arrested twice, his home has been raided more than ten times, and his sons have been arrested on more than three occasions. Most recently, his son Jihad Al-Zaghoul was arrested two days ago and remains in detention. He has not yet been released.

  2. Sep 15

    With The Red Nation Podcast: Psychic Militancy Theory & Praxis

    I joined my dear comrade Nick Estes from the Red Nation podcast (follow them here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRedNation) and we got to use my book as a springboard to talk about a wide range of issues--I really loved this conversation and always feel fortified after being in conversation with Nick. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy Consider signing up for a paid membership at our Patreon for early releases and bonus content: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy And, find us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod

  3. Sep 3

    IN SESSION #20: Therapy in times of imperial implosion with Melissa Lopez, Naa Adaku & Dana Lopez

    I am SO excited for this episode to come out on audiostream--if you haven't seen the video yet, definitely check it out. I was joined by some kickass clinician comrades who are all actively thinking through how we defy the carceral logics of the psy-fields, how to resist imperial cooptation, how to push against the seams of normative f*****y, and all the struggles and contradictions inherent to doing the work of therapy. We had a LOT to talk about and I am happy you all get front a row to this conversation I have been wanting to have for a longgggggg time. Melissa Lopez, aka Mel is a Fat, Queer, Chicanx Femme- She's been an antagonistic and unruly mental health therapist for 21 years. Her practice includes working with people of various interlocking oppressions through an anti imperialist, anti white supremacy lens (she doesn't give one f**k about "evidence based modalities)." Hobbies include pissing off white people, hating on something or another, obsessing over cats, raccoons, & Halloween/horror. The Coven, are the cats and dogs that make up her family. Naa Adaku is a social worker who likes to giggle alot and calls herself an anti imperialist horse mom. She is known as her neighborhoods friendly rebel in Ghana usually walking barefoot with a pack of dogs surrounding her or riding long distance motocross bikes. Her interests are china-africa relations, anti-blackness, African sovereignty and the eradication of femicide in Africa. Dana is a social worker, psychotherapist, parent and comrade committed to a better world for all our children and all life on earth.  She lives in US-occupied Puerto Rico which is her partner's ancestral home with their child, 2 cats and 7 chickens.  Interests are anti-imperialism, disalienating psychotherapy, confronting liberals, feeding people, and quality time with her child and comrades.  Don't forget to subscribe to our channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy and for pre-releases and bonus content, consider becoming a paid patreon at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy Find us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod

  4. Aug 26

    Charisse Burden-Stelly: These ideas belong to us: Knowledge production by other means

    I sat down with the brilliant Charisse Burden-Stelley, aka, Dr. CBS . We packed so much into this interview, including us shooting the shit toward the end a bit, BUT, the more important things that I am so excited for you all to hear are what we have come to know and appreciate Dr. CBS for, and why she is someone I see and feel practices psychic militancy. We discussed her thoughts about anti-communism in the settler colony of the USA, ongoing anti-Blackness, who she has learned from through her career, and the political demands on us, especially as leftists, in this particular moment. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a 2026-2027 Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State. She is a member of Black Alliance for Peace, the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, and Community Movement Builders. You can find Dr. CBS and her This is America Project on IG: @dr.cbs_ Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like this video, share and send to a comrade! If you wanted to listen to this a week before everyone else, consider becoming a paying patron at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy to get early access and more! And, follow us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod

  5. Aug 18

    IN SESSION #19: Imperial and Zionist capture of Blackness with Jamal Williams

    I was so excited to be joined by a new comrade and brother, Jamal Williams. Jamal and I met when he reached out to connect about our shared political values in the decrepit and violent psy-disciplines. From our first discussion, I knew we had a LOT to talk about and more importantly, how it felt vital to share Jamal's work and commitments with the larger community. In this discussion we will get into Jamal's view on how imperialism and Zionism have worked hard to "capture" Blackness in a blackmailed relationally of "solidarity", the important community and political organizing Jamal does, the pressures to be anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist on campuses and in the medical world, and our own ongoing struggle for liberation. I am so excited for you to meet him! Jamal Williams is a neuroscientist, professor, and child development activist whose work focuses on ADHD, autism, and broader neurodevelopmental processes in children. Williams critically examines the political economy of health and education systems. His scholarship and advocacy interrogate how universities, healthcare institutions, and nonprofit infrastructures extract value from poor and working-class communities while failing to address the structural conditions that produce inequity. He is particularly concerned with the co-optation of marginalized suffering through what he conceptualizes as the "Health Equity Industrial Complex". Williams also explores how health disparities across Black, immigrant, and rural communities are rooted in shared upstream conditions, like housing insecurity, environmental injustice, labor exploitation, and unequal access to resources — rather than isolated group-level deficits. Williams' broader aim is to reframe conversations about health, development, and justice away from individual outcomes and toward collective conditions, advocating for approaches that prioritize material redistribution, community control, and systemic transformation. Don't forget to follow and subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy and follow us on socials!  You can find us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod & UpScrolled: @psychicmilitancy. For early releases and allllll the announcements, consider becoming a patron member at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy

  6. Jul 31

    IN SESSION #18: Everybody (still) loves Nora with Nora Barrows-Friedman

    We are back for this popular TGT spinoff with my fav Nora!! We had a lot to talk about and, back by popular demand, she DID sing a song for us all…and perhaps with with a special comrade surprise. As with every time, we will be talking resistance and how to maintain our fight against *all of this*. Nora Barrows-Friedman is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada and has been a reporter and broadcaster focusing on Palestine for more than 20 years. She is the author of "In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine." Make sure to catch Nora (and all our other comrades) and subscribe to the Electronic Intifada here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada And don't forget to subscribe to this channel and follow us on social media. You can find us on IG at: @psychicmilitancypod & UpScrolled: @psychicmilitancy To stay up to date on all announcements and get early releases, consider becoming a member at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy

  7. Jul 8

    IN SESSION #17: Lebanon, normalization & fiber optic resistance with Rania Khalek

    Rania Khalek joined me again to discuss the latest developments in Lebanon, including traitorous normalization efforts by the corrupt US-empire lackey government, on the ground organizing efforts, and continued resistance--yes, the fiber optic kind and more. We had so much to talk about, as you might imagine! Rania Khalek is a journalist for Breakthrough News, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream with Eugene Puryear. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy For pre-releases and all the announcements, consider becoming a patron at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy And follow us on IG: @psychicmilitancypod to keep up to date with every livestream before they become audio episodes like this!

  8. Jun 30

    IN SESSION #16: Everybody loves Nora with Nora Barrows-Friedman

    This was the ultimate lovefest between me and my comrade Nora!! We had a lot to look forward to in this episode which came about as a joke between us after Nora got proposed to in the chat during our first livestream of Tankie Group Therapy. So, in addition to us talking politics and resistance (because of course), we also made a cheeky deal: if Nora got *ten* live proposals during the livestream (narrator: she did not), she would sing a song for us all (narrator: she still did!)…and perhaps also a special guest showed up? This lovefest was meant to (and did) sustain us in the ongoing struggle! Nora Barrows-Friedman is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada and has been a reporter and broadcaster focusing on Palestine for more than 20 years. She is the author of "In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine." Make sure to catch Nora (and all our other comrades) and subscribe to the Electronic Intifada here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy and follow us on social media. You can find us on IG at: @psychicmilitancypod & UpScrolled: @psychicmilitancy  To stay up to date on all announcements and get early releases, consider becoming a member at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy

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A podcast that dissects the psycho-politico-affective dimensions of violent systems of power and militantly refocuses us on how we can remain aligned in our revolutionary anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial commitments to the world. Hosted by clinical psychologist Lara Sheehi.

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  • Creator
    Psychic Militancy Podcast
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2025
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