A biomythography introducing the Blafemme Healing framework.

Abstract

Black feminism has so much to offer. Its philosophical, intellectual, and activist practice grounded in the experiences of Black women is a source of healing and liberation. Building on the Black feminist tradition, the current article introduces an intersectional and practical healing framework titled Blafemme Healing. The framework is designed to support individuals in exploring personal healing regardless of their social location while intentionally providing mechanisms for increasing the experience and outcome of wellness, equity, love, liberation, and survival for Black people. The framework includes eight areas, or chambers, that require people's attention if we are to achieve personal and collective wellness. The author, a Black queer cisgender woman pursuing personal and collective wellness and healing through and beyond the field of psychology, uses the biomythography method to introduce and describe Blafemme Healing.

Inaugural editorial for Journal of Counseling Psychology.

“…We should recognize that health, well-being, resilience, thriving, and livingness are concepts and constructs that have existed within communities of Color and have been spoken and written about for generations. African American healing paradigms (Graham, 2005; Myers, 1988), ethnopolitical psychology (Comas-Diaz, 2007), biomythography and the Blafemme Healing framework (Mosley, 2023), and rematriation (Gray, 2022) are frameworks that amplify the ways in which Black, Indigenous, and other communities of Color have survived and thrived and are philosophical paradigms that heal and bring communities together. These theories and frameworks are examples of what should be studied and used as organic ways to humanize people’s experiences and as forms of liberation (Adames et al, 2023; French et al, 2020, 2023).…”

Shifting the gaze from racism to healing from racism: A systematic review of selected psychology journals from 1992 to 2022.

“…Consistent with decolonial and liberation psychology theories, Comas-Díaz’s applied research provides an analysis that identifies racial oppression as a set of social/economic relations needing to be transformed for healing to occur and amplifies cultural processes that promote individual and collective wellness. This liberation psychology approach to healing from racism has gained increasing attention leading up to and since the COVID-19 global health pandemic (e.g., Adames, Chavez-Dueñas, Lewis, et al, 2023; French et al, 2020; Mosley, 2023). And it was reflected in Thema Bryant’s 2023 APA presidential initiative on culturally informed responses to trauma, grief, and oppression.…”

Unexamined whiteness in the psychological study of men and masculinities: Situating research and practice within white space and white time.

“…As researchers, we subscribe to the conceptualization of intersectionality that is firmly founded in critical race theory and Black feminism (Collins, 1996(Collins, , 2019Crenshaw, 1989;French et al, 2020;Mosley, 2023). We recognize intersectionality as a way to elevate, center, and humanize the lives of Black women (McNeil-Young et al, 2023), and to varying degrees, of non-Black women of Color and to resist their epistemic erasure and exclusion (Alexander-Floyd, 2012;Collins, 2019;Nash, 2016).…”