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A key therapy blog
Thoughts, ruminations, recommendations from a mindfulness therapist. My life has been a mix of literary exploration, government work, and global education. My journey has taken me across the world—from working with street children in Romania to teaching in South Korea—before returning home to focus on crisis management and therapy.
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Politics
Gatekeeping and Deportation
On Latinidad, fear, and who gets to belong I saw this meme recently — a hand-drawn fortress surrounded by moat after moat, each layer...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Aug 214 min read
"White Presenting" and what it means
Reflections on identity based support By: Lex Enrico Santi, LCSW, MFA -- A Key Therapy PLLC My experience in higher education and...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Apr 25 min read
Did Turning Down a Job Change the Course of History?
A Reflection on Power, Integrity, and the Road Not Taken By Lex Enrico Santi, LCSW, MFA Lex Enrico Santi In 2003, I was a returned Peace...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Mar 107 min read
Resilient Movements in Uncertain Times: Building Stronger Organizations in Activism, Social Work, and Higher Education
Maurice Mitchell’s article Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis provides a critical...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Mar 54 min read
Late-Stage Capitalism and the Tyre Nichols Moment
The slaying of Tyre Nichols is a moment in late-stage capitalism which must give all social justice minded thinkers and humanistic folks...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Feb 2, 20233 min read
OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
Pt. 4 in a series on oppression... We often hear from individuals in the media or worse, in social media, examples of when a member of...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Oct 12, 20202 min read
EXPERIENCING OPPRESSION WORKS ON DIFFERENT LEVELS
PT. 3 In a Series on Oppression This is a difficult topic to introduce because it requires to expansively think of ourselves as embodying...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Aug 4, 20205 min read
The Ithaca-Cornell Social Contract
Ithaca wears an oddly fitting town-gown with Cornell; we have graced the bottom of a certain middle-finger-lake for over 150 years and...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jul 29, 20203 min read
THE CYCLE OF PERSONAL OPPRESSION
Systems of oppression are taught and reinforced by a cycle of oppression which keeps you locked into a way of thinking about the way the...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jun 22, 20205 min read
MAKING CONNECTIONS & TEACHING FOR CHANGE
The course that changed my life was called Making Connections. When I was in college at Hobart and William Smith, there was a program...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jun 22, 20204 min read
There is no hierarchy of oppression
I want to share with you a system of looking at the world, which when explained to me, fundamentally changed the way that I understood...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jun 15, 20206 min read
Political Essay: The War on Odor & The War on Terror
I wrote this essay in 2003. It was picked up by the now defunct Democratic Underground that under Bush 43 was struggling to put itself...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Dec 3, 20034 min read
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