Hi, I'm Dr. Badruddoja!
Academic Leader, Mystical Healer, and Overall Badass
I (pronoun: hir) am a feminine/masculine queer Woman of Color; an interfaith and cross-cultural womanist; a trauma liberation scholar and an intergenerational family trauma liberation therapist; an urban Shamanic and Akashic practitioner; a tenured Professor of Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, and Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at Manhattan College; and a queer mother to four fierce energy beings.
I focus on contemporary social inequalities and the voices of marginalized “Others” as my sites of thinking to address social problems in the modern world; explore the meanings of spaces and places in the context of power, privilege and abuse and solidarity, resistance, and mobilization; and think deeply, every day, about how vulnerability is imagined, the practices of solidarity and what it means to be of service to the marginalized.
I am the author of National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity (Brill/Haymarket, In press), the editor of “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Demeter, 2016), and a contributor of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters in Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute, 2016).
Here is what I have learned from my irreparable heartbreak.
First, the purpose of the Light is to illuminate the Dark. Pluto Retrograde (4/29-10/8, 2022) gifts us time to embrace and integrate our Shadows and live our lives fully. Second, Spirit lives in the now, and not in our Past or Future. Our Present is our connection to the Divine. Third, the embrace of our vulnerabilities can be transgressive, radical, and healing as a mode of being (versus the “western” psychotherapeutic tradition of “overcoming”) to stake a claim, sit with, and affirm.
The teaching and knowledge of how to restore life shifts our traumas.
In this masterclass and 4-day course, I offer a diverse examination into the relationship between destruction and multidimensional collaborative creation for continuing life on Earth.
What is Dr. RokBad Saying?
“’What is trauma?’ Trauma is an internal response to an overwhelming situation that cannot be processed at that moment. That is, trauma is undigested, uncontained, and postponed energy, and it limits our capacity to live our lives fully.”
“I urgently step away from the multilayered inadequacies and insufficiencies of ‘western’ psychotherapeutic models of trauma healing that serve to pathologize our grief. I dedicate myself to excavating critical Indigenous epistemology. I accomplish this with a deliberate and intentional blend of the personal, spiritual, and the scholarly to uncover the ways in which our narratives are often erased within material experiences.”
“When we ‘heal’, we ‘heal’ the past, including our ancestors, and we effectively transmute our future, including our descendants.”
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