Dr Abi Miranda

@drmirandathinks.bsky.social

158 Followers 80 Following

UK based educational and child psychologist. Interested in improving life chances for all children, pre-conception and beyond.

Zoom screenshot, clockwise from top left showing white male with glasses, South Asian woman with Black hair, Black man (Bernard Coard) and South Asian woman with black hair and glasses.
Blue book cover with red and white text 'teaching in the Caribbean and Britain. My experiences and lessons towards educational transformation by Bernard Coard. Image of a Black male presenting teacher in front of a blackboard with students facing him.
Screenshot of message that says 'Hi Abi xxx is aware of this since long time ago xxxx is her best friend and that will continue no matter what'
Image text by Pat.radical.therapist It's fucking exhausting watching "anti-oppressive" therapists parade around with their watered-down corporate-friendly bullshit - tossing in cultural competence like seasoning while still licking the boots of the very systems that brutalize, cage, and discard the most vulnerable among us. Yeah, you read some books, took a DEI course, maybe even sat through a training on "racial trauma. Cute. But where the fuck do you stand on state violence? On psychological eugenics masquerading as care? On the way fascism is creeping in through policy while you keep hiding behind your licenses and credentials?
Image of a book on a beige background. Book is called Restoring Education by Fellows and others. Image is a blue sky with clouds in the background and a smiling, blonde child hanging upside down from a climbing ladder in the foreground.
Allowables by Nikki Giovanni I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened
Bbc news report about Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Beit Lahia with highlighted text 'Hamas run media'