Session 427: Immigration Justice
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re discussing a crisis that’s disrupting lives across the country: the escalating wave of deportations tearing families apart and dismantling the fragile sense of safety many immigrants cling to. For this conversation I’m joined by Catherine Labiran, a writer, organizer, and research manager whose work lives at the intersections of immigration justice, Black liberation, and mental health. Catherine has spent her career advocating for Black immigrants whose stories are too often erased from national conversations. During our conversation, Catherine and I discussed the emotional toll of migration, the resilience of African and Caribbean diasporic communities, and explored the ways art, community care, and protecting joy become lifelines in the face of racism and erasure.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:30.0 | For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at Therapy for Blackgirls.com. While I hope you love listening to |
| 0:40.4 | and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute for a relationship with a licensed |
| 0:47.1 | mental health professional. |
| 0:56.7 | Hey, y'all. |
| 1:01.0 | Thanks so much for joining me for session 427 of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | We'll get right into our conversation after word from our sponsors. |
| 1:11.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:22.3 | This week, we're discussing a crisis that's disrupting lives across the country. |
| 1:28.8 | The escalating wave of deportations tearing families apart and dismantling the fragile sense of safety many immigrants cling to. Today I'm joined by Catherine Labrion, a writer, organizer, and research |
| 1:36.1 | manager whose work lives at the intersections of immigration justice, black liberation, |
| 1:41.2 | and mental health. Catherine has spent her career advocating for black immigrants whose stories are too often erased |
| 1:47.6 | from national conversations. |
| 1:49.9 | She first began making sense of injustice through poetry, transforming personal experience |
| 1:55.1 | into a practice of healing and resistance. |
| 1:58.0 | Today, her work centers around archiving black migrant wisdom and building safe |
| 2:02.8 | spaces for those navigating displacement, identity, and systemic injustice. |
| 2:08.5 | Catherine and I discussed the emotional toll of migration, the resilience of African and Caribbean |
| 2:14.6 | diasporic communities, and explore the ways art, community care, and protecting |
| 2:20.1 | joy become lifelines in the face of racism and erasure. If something resonates with you |
| 2:26.5 | while enjoying our conversation, please share with us on social media using the hashtag TBG in session. |
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