Practice of Pleasure
- Date
- November 24, 2021
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 2:00 PM EST
- Location
- Online via Zoom
Do you feel that pleasure and joy are often decentred in helping professions? Join us as we explore this and more with William Gooding and Ricky Varghese.
This event focuses on the principles and expression of pleasure in and as a form of practice. The presenters are steeped in community practice, as well as academic theorizing and clinical work. We discuss the usefulness of psychoanalytic thought for community healing and social justice-focused practice. The presenters discuss what practice looks like that centers on pleasure and why pleasure is dismissed, ignored, or disciplined so often in politics and the helping relationship.
Speaker Bios
Dr. Ricky Varghese
Dr. Ricky Varghese, the Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice at the School of Disability Studies Ryerson University, is working on the relationship between masculinity, suicidality, and the death drive as well as a collection entitled Sex and the Pandemic. In addition to being a researcher and an art writer, he runs a private practice in downtown Toronto since 2014 and is in the final stages of psychoanalytic training at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis.
William Gooding
William Gooding identifies as a queer, HIV+, Indigenous-European person of Quechua, Spanish and Irish descent. William is the National Director of the Feast Centre for Indigenous Sexually Transmitted Blood Borne Infection Research working with Indigenous communities to support Indigenous and decolonizing methods for Indigenous individuals/communities living with and affected by STBBI. William has over 20 years of practice experience in HIV education, prevention and care for racialized and economically disadvantaged youth and incarcerated men in Canada and the United States. William is a graduate of the MSW program at Ryerson and is completing his Ph.D. at McMaster University.