{"id":73979,"date":"2025-11-03T11:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=73979"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:19:22","slug":"prof-gomez-explores-cultural-betrayal-intersectionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/prof-gomez-explores-cultural-betrayal-intersectionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor G\u00f3mez Explores Cultural Betrayal, Intersectionality\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent thought-provoking\u00a0presentation,\u00a0Associate\u00a0Professor Jennifer M. G\u00f3mez\u00a0from\u00a0BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), delivered a talk titled\u00a0\u201c<em>Beyond Cultural Betrayal: The Role of Secondary Marginalization Against Black Women<\/em>\u201d\u00a0as part of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) webinar series,\u00a0\u201cBeyond the Ivory Tower: Bringing Activist Conversations to Academic Spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gomez explores the complex intersections of racism, sexism, violence, and healing through the lens of her <a href=\"https:\/\/jmgomez.org\/cultural-betrayal-trauma-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Betrayal Trauma\u00a0Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The talk, now available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNhe-7lMhNE&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>,\u00a0includes both a lecture and Q&amp;A session, and\u00a0invites participants to examine how systems of\u00a0oppression compound harm against Black women and girls \u2014 and how communities can move toward justice and\u00a0restoration.<\/p>\n<p>In her remarks, Dr. G\u00f3mez challenged audiences to confront the intertwined nature of oppression and violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNhe-7lMhNE&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">Listen to the full discussion here<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/jennifer-m-gomez\/\">Learn more about Professor Jennifer M. Gomez<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate\u00a0Professor Jennifer M. G\u00f3mez\u00a0from\u00a0BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), delivered a talk titled\u00a0\u201cBeyond Cultural Betrayal: The Role of Secondary Marginalization Against Black Women\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25047,"featured_media":63995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7427,7520,7426,7511,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73979"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81528,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73979\/revisions\/81528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}