Anti-Oppressive Music Therapy in Practice

Canadian Music Therapy

In this episode, we are speaking with Sue Bains about equity, inclusion, representation, and social justice in music therapy. She helps us to further understand what anti-oppressive music therapy is and how do we do it in terms of education, practice, and research.

Here is a little more about Sue:

Sue Baines, PhD, MTA, FAMI, is respectfully grateful to be a live and learn on the unceded territories of the Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations on Turtle Island. She is a feminist and an activator. Her research focus is anti-oppressive music therapy. Sue has taught in the Bachelor of Music Therapy program at Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC, Canada since 1997 and continues to practice music therapy in long-term care.

Article referenced in podcast from Voices:

“It’s Not What’s Done, But Why It’s Done”: Music Therapists’ Understanding of Normalisation, Maximisation and the Neurodiversity Movement

https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3110/3067

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