In this emergency podcast, Dr. Kay shares her unpopular position that we should all be rejecting any making or taking of sides between Ubah & Brynn, and rather look at what happened with a trauma-focused lens, which changes how we understand the events. We can understand the contexts of both Ubah & Brynn, while still holding Brynn, as well as the bystanders, accountable for what they could have improved in such a high-activation scenario. Mental Health Check-Ups are typically only available for our Patreon members, but given the importance of these topics, this episode is currently available to all listeners!

Love yourselves & one another--it takes all of us working together to subvert the societal oppression we face every day <3333

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Interested in learning more about what Dr. Kay referred to in this episode as humankind's "fallible memory"? Dr. Kay wrote a brief review of some relevant cognitive science in 2019, which is available for free on our Patreon; it includes many more references, as well as brief explanations of the most relevant studies on memory.

CONTENT WARNING
This episode includes themes of sexual violence.

If you have survived sexual violence and want to speak to someone about it, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline @ 1-800-656-4673. You can also go to the their website, https://rainn.org/, to use their chat feature.

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MENTAL HEALTH CHECK-UP REFERENCES
Devitt, A. L., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). An optimistic outlook creates a rosy past: The impact of episodic simulation on subsequent memory. Psychological Science, 29(6), 936–946. doi:10.1177/0956797617753936 ISSN: 0956-7976

Fisher, J. (2014, June). Putting the pieces together: 25 years of learning trauma treatment. Psychotherapy Networker. https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/108/putting-the-pieces-together.

Schacter, D. L. (1996). Searching for memory: The brain, the mind, and the past. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 0465075525

St. Jacques, P. L., Carpenter, A. C., Szpunar, K. K., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). Remembering and imagining alternative versions of the personal past. Neuropsychologia, 110, 170–179. ISSN: 0028-3932

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