Feminist and Cultural Contributions to Transpersonal Psychology

Notas para Decolonizar os Estudos Transpessoais no Brasil: Contribuições do Pluriperspectivismo Participativo

“…Silva (2021), Feliciano (2021) e Souza (2021) endereçam questões ao campo de estudos transpessoais que sintetizam esses desafios persistentes e que necessitam ser enfrentados: falam de periferias, potência dos pobres, direitos humanos, feminismo negro, transexualidade, racismo e necropolítica, engajamento social, perspectivas queer, etc. que desafiam o viés patriarcal ocidental, já destacado pelos estudos feministas transpessoais fora do país (Brooks, Ford, & Anne, 2013;Louchakova & Lucas, 2007).…”

Women without children

“…Having recognised sex and gender as conceptual categories that are "subject to contestation and renegotiation" (Hines, 2020, p. 25), the question of how to understand the sexed body in relation to gender identity without resorting to reductive essentialism or disembodied ideology remains a central challenge for feminist thinking which now holds renewed socio-cultural and political significance. A transpersonal feminist perspective (Brooks, 2010;Brooks et al, 2013) recognises that the way forward lies with a participatory perspective (Ferrer, 2000(Ferrer, , 2017 that conceives of human experience as pluralistic, fully contextualised, and embodied. A feminist participatory exploration of the lived experiences of women without children in relation to the woman/mother conflation might offer fertile ground from which to further understand the complex relationship between predominant discourses and embodied identity formation; and, importantly, to re-instantiate the liberatory impulse at the heart of the feminist movement, driven by the unanimous goals of recognising women's experiences of dissonance, resistance, and transformation.…”

Womanist Preservation: An Analysis of Black Women ’s Spiritual Coping

“…Although this dynamic of limited cultural diversity is common in consciousness studies, transpersonal psychology is being beckoned to honor its overdue promise to favor a more comprehensive array of human experiences. Currently, transpersonal scholarship partners with women's spirituality thus delving into a feminist paradigm (Brooks, Ford, & Huffman, 2013;Gross, 1984;Louchakova & Lucas, 2007;Schavrien, 2008); yet within the field, coverage of Black women's spirituality, situated in an Afrocentric cosmology, remains negligible. This paper offers an abbreviated overview of the applied spiritual practices of Black women to the field of transpersonal psychology, while also expanding the womanist psychology canon.…”