Saheli HIV AIDS Karyakarta Sangh is a community based organization which works with the female sex workers of Budhwar Peth. Saheli is the only female sex workers collective in Pune. Established in 1998, with the voluntary efforts of sex workers and social workers from this area. While Tejaswi Sevekari is the Executive Director at Saheli, Vanita Mane is a board member as well as Peer leader of Saheli.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

The episode has been recorded in both Marathi and English.

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Sagar Sachdeva has worked in the development sector for four years towards building spaces and processes that facilitate dialogues on gender and masculinities among young men. At TYPF’s Mardon Wali Baat programme, his work involves creating interactive models of engaging with young men and boys by approaching masculinities and violence through an intersectional lens. 

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

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Dr. Kaz de Jong is physiotherapist, has a Master in Organisational Psychology and a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He has been employed with MSF since 1994 as a field worker and as a mental health specialist in the MSF Public Health Department, being responsible for the development of Mental Health programs. Currently, he is the Head of the Staff Health Unit and Primary Investigator in the Expat Health Study.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

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Swarnima Bhargava is currently an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She is an experienced Clinical Psychologist working with child and adolescent mental health. She is skilled in narrative therapy, psychodynamic & mentalization-based therapy, psycho-educational assessments. Her strong interests and experience is working with depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual abuse, ADHD, LGBTQ and relational concerns.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work. 

 Shaifila Ladhani is a practising psychotherapist, based out of Delhi. Shaifila identifies as a feminist, queer affirmative, trauma-informed practitioner. She believes that mental health is psychosocial in nature and that working with individuals requires acknowledging their psychosocial contexts. Alongside, she is working on building efficient models of therapeutic care, which takes into account the mental health needs and concerns that go beyond the space(s) of therapy.  

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work. 

In this podcast, we will look at therapy through the lens of intersectionality in terms of gender, race, caste, sexuality, disability, religion, and more. Each episode uncovers the nuances of tackling mental health challenges faced by marginalised identities. Through this podcast, we hope to bring greater attention to how identity drives unique mental health needs and requires special approaches in therapy. 

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Professor Thokchom Bibinaz has taught in undergraduate studies in Delhi University on Ad-hoc basis. Earlier she has worked with various non-profit organizations (NGOs) as mental health service provider on critical psycho-social issues. Her service also extended as Human rights activist in one of the Child Rights Centre in Delhi and played the role of a trainer for the Probation officers, public prosecutors and police personnel of ASI and lower ranks in Delhi police Department.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, Mental Health Collective Associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work. 

Kasturi Chetia is an RCI licensed Clinical Psychologist currently working with a Child and Adolescent Mental Health organisation called Children First India. She engages with children, adolescents, young adults, parents, teachers, social workers along with a host of national and international organisations. She has a deep resonance with placing clients and their families at the centre of the therapeutic relationship. With each interaction, she aspires to create a nurturing and safe ecosystem, building awareness, removing stigma and shame around mental health and advocating community work by using the lens of social justice and collaboration.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work. 

Renu Addlakha is currently Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-supported autonomous research institute, government of India. She presently is engaged in research on health, disability, gender and development.  She has trained in medical anthropology and her areas of specialisation include mental illness and the psychiatric profession, public health systems, bioethics, gender and the family. She has been work on health and disability issues for the past two decades. She has published widely in national and international peer- reviewed journals. Her latest most important publications are Deconstructing mental illness: An ethnography of psychiatry, women and the family (2008 Zubaan Books), Disability and society: A reader (co-edited with Stuart Blume, Patrick J. Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance (2009) Orient Blackswan). Contemporary perspectives on disability in India: Exploring the linkages between law, gender and experience.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work. 

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work. 

As the first & only practicing peace-psychologist from Kashmir & South-Asia, Ufra Mir works at the intersection of the science of psychology, mental health psychosocial support, education, art and peace-building; where her vision of peace is very much foundational in holistic global wellbeing, mental health psychosocial support, self-transformation, changemaking and inner peace first - for more empowered, more empathetic, more peaceful and more cohesive, just and resilient world. She has additionally been recognized as one of the top 10 Kashmiri women achievers, which includes a recent Lal Ded Khatoon-e-Kashmir award, for her contribution to peace-psychology work, focused on wellbeing, healing and peacebuilding in Kashmir. 

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

You can also listen to this and more by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, spelt U_N_O_T_H_E_R which is available on both the Apple and Google app stores. To invite such experts to your organization for guest lectures or expert consultations, please also look at Belongg Circle, a platform that curates intersectional experts and makes it easy for a range of organizations to integrate such thinking in their work.