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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist)

Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist)

@doriansmode.bsky.social

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · 3d

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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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/...

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Sep 11

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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Assassination and Pretext

Why We Must Be Watchful

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jul 31

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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Black August: A Listening Guide

Study, Fast, Train, Listen.

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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A Ridiculous Story of Extremism

Neo-Nazis, Salafi Jihadism, and the Death Cult of a Counterfeit Masculinity

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 30

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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Liberation Music Therapy in the Time of Trump

A Free Online Workshop on Trauma, Art, and Supporting the Resistance

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

A Teaching Podcast

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 20

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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Liberation Music Therapy in the Time of Trump

Workshop on Trauma, Art, and Supporting the Resistance

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 18

Capitalism Is A Good Idea In Theory, But It Just Doesn't Work In Practice #Capitalism #CapitalismSucks #MAGA #Antifa open.substack.com/pub/doriansm...

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

Capitalisms Death Toll

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 16

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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Liberation Music Therapy in the Time of Trump

A Free Online Workshop on Trauma, Art, and Supporting the Resistance

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 13

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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Ranked Choice Voting Guide

How to Vote in NYC’s 2025 Mayoral Primary

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 3

Consolidation, Cruelty, and Counter-Revolution

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · May 21

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

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Capitalism, Empathy, and the Fascist Playbook

How fascism weaponizes labor divisions, dehumanization, and economic myths

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · May 10

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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Dorian Wallace - Hasta Siempre

YouTube video by Ropeadope

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · May 4

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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Engaged, Not Entangled

Walking Through the Fire

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Apr 22

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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PRESS RELEASE: DORIAN WALLACE - DOUBLE ALBUM RELEASE

Music Therapy Informed, Political Tradition, and Spontaneous Improvisation

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Apr 10

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 Praxis Wheel (Revised)

An Activist Framework for Safe, Liberatory Pathways in Creative, Healing, and Communal Spaces

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Apr 1

The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 2
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The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch, Part 2

Conspiracy Politics and Reactionary Populism

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 1

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!"

Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Mar 28

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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The American Far Right Is Not a Glitch

A Brief Overview of 21st-Century American Reactionary Chauvanism/Fascism

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Mar 27

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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Understanding Social Class

Who Owns? Who Serves? Who Labors? Who Is Left Behind?

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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Mar 26

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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Dorian Wallace (composer/music therapist) @doriansmode.bsky.social · Mar 25

Understanding High-Control Dynamics: From cults to toxic workplaces, many high-control environments share similar patterns of manipulation and abuse.
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#Cults #Cult #CultRecovery #TraumaRecovery #BoundariesAreHealthy #CultRecovery #NarcissisticAbuse
#CycleOfAbuse

Understanding High-Control Dynamics

From cults to toxic workplaces, many high-control environments share similar patterns of manipulation and abuse.

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