Browsing by Author "Shaw, Jessica Corinne Allen"
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Item Open Access A Renewed Ethic of Embodiment in the Community of Motherhood: On the Intersection of First-Time Maternity and Hermeneutics(2023-05-25) Samuels, Sumerlee Eden; St. George, Sally Ann; Chang, Jeff; Sesma Vazquez, Monica; Shaw, Jessica Corinne Allen; Ilic, DraganaWhat does it mean to be a “good” mother? This research focuses on the community of motherhood through the eyes of first-time (FT) mothers and is aimed at addressing the consequences, for newcomers to this community, of how we describe the goodness of a mother’s day-to-day labours. The main researched question is how might we understand embodied maternity and motherhood in a community whose members are always already measured and marked? To respond to this question, I used hermeneutic inquiry guided by Gadamer’s (1975/2004) philosophical hermeneutics. The pool of participants was comprised of 10 FT mothers, aged 29 to 43, who had joined the community of motherhood within the last 2 years. Participants engaged in audio-recorded interviews. Analysis of the data included reading transcripts and field notes, listening to recordings, journaling wonderings inspired by the interviews, reviewing drawings created by FT mothers, and consulting literature. Through this process, I distinguished tensions that are traditionally tough to traverse as a FT mother from which I created three interpretations that reveal how we might understand the notion of embodied maternity and motherhood. These interpretations included the ins and outs of muffled motherhood metrics, covering expectations for good mothers together with exceptions to expectations for good mothers; malleable mothering matters, covering good mothering doing(s) together with bad mothering doing(s); and manifested mothers’ manners, covering conventional mothering being(s) together with unconventional mothering being(s). Following a presentation of these interpretations, I discuss implications of the findings for theory, practice, and research.Item Open Access Emerging Needs and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Stories of 2SGLBTQ+ Experiences of Psychedelic Consciousness(2024-08-14) Desrochers, Stefanie; Shaw, Jessica Corinne Allen; Shaw, Jessia Corinne Allen; Sesma Vasquez, Monia; Mason, Corinne L.Varieties of psychedelic-assisted therapies (PAT) are in the process of being legalized and regulated or are already legally accessible depending on jurisdiction and substance. Psychedelics are increasingly available for healing, wellness, spiritual, and recreational purposes in a variety of legal, quasi-legal, and illicit ways. While the Indigenous traditional and ceremonial use of these sacred medicines has storied histories that go back generations, the new stories being told in media and academia about psychedelics focus on changes in attitudes towards psychedelics and their potential clinical applications. The stories that are told about psychedelics inevitably shape our experience of them, who can access these experiences and the meanings we make of them. Stories like the “War on Drugs” and now the “Psychedelic Renaissance” obfuscate the individual storied experiences of queer psychedelia and the many connections between queerness and psychedelic consciousness. Using the qualitative methodology of narrative inquiry, this research takes up accounts of four queer Albertans in the midst of their unique experiences with psychedelics. Each shared their stories of psychedelic experiences and how those stories impact the ways that they understand themselves, their gender, and sexuality. Tensions and resonances between and across the narrative threads of these queer stories are explored and offer recommendations for safe and equitable access to psychedelic consciousness, current practice with PAT, and the development of queer-affirming PAT. It concludes with wonders visions of liberatory approaches to psychedelic access and containers. As psychedelics come out of the closet, this research underscores the necessity of raising queer voices so that queer folks are not left behind.