Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist)

Help Tyler Through Cardiac Recovery I’m sharing a GoFundMe for my brother Tyler, who recently experienced sudden cardiac failure at age 51. In the span of days, his life was turned upside down.

I’m sharing a GoFundMe for my brother Tyler, who recently experienced sudden cardiac failure at age 51. In the span of days, his life was turned upside down.
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BONUS SESSION: All About Music! Liberation Music Therapy 11-week Workshop Teach-In, Bonus Session 12!

All About Music! explores music as a human phenomenon that lives in all of our bodies. The idea of “I’m not good at music” is a learned myth shaped by capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. This session works to demystify it.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Liberation Psychology Liberation Music Therapy 11-week Workshop Teach-In, Session 9

Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Liberation Psychology
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High-Control Dynamics & Fascism (Online Workshop) Liberation Music Therapy 11-week Workshop Teach-In, Session 7

High-Control Dynamics & Fascism (Online Workshop)
This session, participants will learn about the Cycle of Abuse, Thought Reform, Bounded Choice, Totalism, and the Five Stage Model of Fascism.

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Trauma-Informed and Trauma Sensitive Practice | Liberation Music Therapy Ep 3 Liberation Music Therapy Series

In this episode, we dive deep into the foundational concepts of Liberation Psychology and the Praxis Wheel, an activist framework central to this workshop. Today’s session examines the various types of trauma, how they manifest, and how to navigate them.
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Liberation Music Therapy Teach-In (Online) 11-Week Online Workshop Series, Sundays, 8–9:30 PM EST/Nov 2–Jan 11. Exploring The Praxis Wheel, trauma-informed care, pedagogy of the oppressed, caste & class, mindfulness, and collective agency.$25/...

Liberation Music Therapy Teach-In (Online)
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Liberation Music Therapy Teach-In (Online) 11-Week Online Workshop Series, Sundays, 8–9:30 PM EST/Nov 2–Jan 11. Exploring The Praxis Wheel, trauma-informed care, pedagogy of the oppressed, caste & class, mindfulness, and collective agency.$25/...

Liberation Music Therapy: 11-Week Online Teach-In
Sun. 8–9:30 PM EST, Nov 2–Jan 11. Facilitated by Dorian Wallace, MT-BC
Open to therapists, artists, students, educators, & healers.
Suggested $25/Full Series: $200
No one turned away for lack of funds
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Assassination and Pretext Why We Must Be Watchful

Autocrats and authoritarian movements weaponize moments of violence. An assassination can become the justification for repression, pogrom, or dictatorship. #autocracy #maga #charliekirk
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Understanding the Imperial Boomerang Capitalism’s need for endless growth drives imperialism.Imperialism enforces control through forms of colonialism.The violence used abroad to subjugate colonized peoples eventually returns home, transforming domestic institutions into engines of internal repression.This is the root of fascism.Capitalism → Colonialism, Colonialism = Fascism Abroad, Fascism = Colonialism at Home.

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Black August: A Listening Guide Study, Fast, Train, Listen.

Black August is a month-long observance dedicated to prison abolitionism, honoring Black freedom fighters, political prisoners, & Black resistance against racial and state oppression. It is a call to study, fast, train, fight, & listen. #BlackLivesMatter

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A Ridiculous Story of Extremism Neo-Nazis, Salafi Jihadism, and the Death Cult of a Counterfeit Masculinity

In 2017, a former neo-Nazi took hostages & led police to his two murdered neo-Nazi roommates. He claimed he killed them after converting to Salafi Islam and being mocked, expressing support for both white nationalism & jihadism. #Fascism #MAGA #Islamophobia #antifa
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Liberation Music Therapy in the Time of Trump A Free Online Workshop on Trauma, Art, and Supporting the Resistance

Free Online Workshop/Th 07.03.25/8:30–10pm ET
w/ Dorian Wallace, MT-BC As fascism escalates, music therapists & creatives are vital. Join this 90-min session on trauma-informed, liberation-rooted practice for healing & resistance. #musiciansky #musictherapy #music

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The Liberation Music Therapist: Episode 1-Introduction to the Podcast A Teaching Podcast

The Liberation Music Therapist podcast explores how music therapy can challenge systems like capitalism and colonialism while supporting trauma healing in prisons, hospice care, and beyond. #musiciansky #mentalhealth #liberation #antifascim

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Liberation Music Therapy in the Time of Trump Workshop on Trauma, Art, and Supporting the Resistance

Drawing from work in prisons, hospice, and cult recovery, Wallace introduces the Praxis Wheel, a framework for ethical, decolonial, and politically conscious healing practices.

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Capitalism Is A Good Idea In Theory, But It Just Doesn't Work In Practice Capitalisms Death Toll

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Capitalism Is A Good Idea In Theory, But It Just Doesn't Work In Practice Capitalisms Death Toll

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Liberation Music Therapy in the Time of Trump A Free Online Workshop on Trauma, Art, and Supporting the Resistance

As Trump escalates fascism, the need for trauma-informed, liberation work is urgent. 90-minute online workshop is for music therapists, mental health professionals, & activists.
#MusicTherapy #LiberationPsychology #TraumaInformed #MutualAid #AntiFascist #Trumpism
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Ranked Choice Voting Guide How to Vote in NYC’s 2025 Mayoral Primary

Progressive Ranked-Voting Guide

1. Zohran Mamdani
2. Brad Lander
3. Zellnor Myrie
4. Adrienne Adams
5. Michael Blake

#RankedChoiceVoting #NYCPrimary2025 #NYCMayor #Vote #NYCVotes #ImmigrantJustice #HousingJustice #ClimateJustice #NoToCuomo #DitchCuomo #LeftIsBest

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Given how Trump and Musk are behaving, maybe it’s time we admit men are just too emotional for leadership roles.

#ToxicMasculinity #LeadershipCrisis #EmotionalMen #MAGA #Fascism #Musk #Trump #Sad #Wrong

The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 3 Consolidation, Cruelty, and Counter-Revolution

The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 3
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #LGBTQ #NoToFascism #TransLivesMatter #FascismInAmerica #MoralPanic #StochasticTerrorism #FarRightPlaybook #ChristianNationalism #Gender #TransLiberation #TransYouthBelong

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Capitalism, Empathy, and the Fascist Playbook How fascism weaponizes labor divisions, dehumanization, and economic myths

This Machine Kills Fascists! #MAGA #Fascism #Antifascism #FarRight #Empathy #MentalHealth #FightFascism #Trump

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YouTube video by Ropeadope Dorian Wallace - Hasta Siempre

Dorian Wallace - Hasta Siempre (Laeh Su Tel! Psychology In A New Key) #musiciansky #classicalmusic #jazz #antifa #politicalmusic #socialism #politics #improvised #ropeadope #Brooklyn #pianosky #piano #clasical #newmusic #jazzmusic #jazzpiano #classicalpiano #cuban
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Engaged, Not Entangled Walking Through the Fire

It’s important to remember that trauma is not a competition. No one “wins” by carrying more pain, and no one is “less than” for carrying less. Trauma is trauma. We must hold space for that truth with compassionate action and humility. #EngagedBuddhism #Activism
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PRESS RELEASE: DORIAN WALLACE - DOUBLE ALBUM RELEASE Music Therapy Informed, Political Tradition, and Spontaneous Improvisation

I’m excited to invite you to the release of my double album, Laeh Su Tel! — Psychology In A New Key and A Healing Sound For The People! This is a deeply personal project I’ve carried with me for years, waiting for the right time to bring it to life. #Musiciansky
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The Praxis Wheel (Revised) An Activist Framework for Safe, Liberatory Pathways in Creative, Healing, and Communal Spaces

The Praxis Wheel is a conceptual tool designed to serve as a compass for therapeutic and activist work in real-time. It offers guidance for ethical, responsive, and culturally grounded engagement in liberatory practice. #LiberationPsychology #RadicalTherapy open.substack.com/pub/doriansm...

The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 2 Conspiracy Politics and Reactionary Populism

The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 2
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A man says "fuck it. I wanna be serialized. I'm tired of living comic to comic. I want to experience more. I don't want my eternally reviving body to be used for momentary vignettes. I want to be somebody." Another man says "Oh Gary, I don't think it works like that. We are doomed to nothingness after the next panel." Gary shakes his fists toward the heavens and shouts "NO! I refuse! My name is Gary! I deserve more life!"

The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch A Brief Overview of 21st-Century American Reactionary Chauvanism/Fascism

The far right has historically adapted to the needs of power. Elites cultivate, protect, and retool it when the systems they oversee begin to lose legitimacy. #MAGA #Trump #Musk #AntiTrump #AntiMusk #DOGE #Antifa

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Understanding Social Class Who Owns? Who Serves? Who Labors? Who Is Left Behind?

This describes capitalist class structure via 3 distinct ladders, Labor, Gentry, and Elite, + the Underclass. Class is determined by access to capital, production, & institutional power.

#ClassAnalysis #LaborSolidarity #MutualAid #Capitalism #WorkingClass #Workers
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If you’re experiencing trauma, then you’re experiencing trauma. You don’t need to compare your pain to anyone else’s o justify what happened. What matters is that something happened, & it affected you. #PTSD #Trauma #MentalHealth #MoralInjury

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