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Member Event: Complexities of Identity Interest Group
3/14/2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM MEA

Event Description

Save the dates!

There are 3 upcoming events.  Save the date for all three:
March 14, 2026
May 23, 2026
September 12, 2026

SESSION 1: 14 March 2026
Title: Race as Identity Experience
Goal: To reflect on race as a lived identity experience and consider how this shapes what we understand as race work in clinical practice.
Race as Lived Identity
1. When do you feel your racial identity most strongly, and when does it recede into the background?
2. How central or peripheral does race feel in your sense of self?
3. How does context influence your experience of race?
Race in the Clinical Relationship
1. How do you imagine patients experience you racially?
2. When does race feel foregrounded or backgrounded in your clinical work?
3. How do you sense that race may be shaping the interaction, even when unspoken?
Complexity, Ambivalence & Race Work
1. Can race feel simultaneously relevant and irrelevant in the same encounter?
2. What contradictions or tensions do you notice in your own experience of race?
3. If race is a lived identity experience, how might this shape what we call “race work”?
We look forward to thinking, feeling, and exploring these questions together.  


Time:
4:00pm South Africa time 
(10:00am New York / 9:00am Chicago / 7:00am Los Angeles / 3:00pm Western Europe / 4:00pm Tel Aviv / 5:00pm Ankara / 10:00pm Shanghai / 11:00pm Tokyo / 1:00am+1 Sydney)