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The Department of Psychology, Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, and Minority Health Disparities Initiative have joined forces to host a virtual lecture on “#HotGirlScience and Neighborhood Healing: Community-Based Participatory Action Research Approaches to Black Sexual and Mental Health,” presented by Dr. Candice Hargons.
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The free event is 1 p.m. May 16 and available via Zoom. Registration is available here.
In this talk, Hargons will describe the #HotGirlScience paradigm - a liberation-oriented Black feminist philosophy of science - informing her recent research and published studies from two community-based participatory action research projects.
Hargons is an award-winning associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Kentucky, where she studies sexual and mental wellness.