President's Report

While the President's Report in fort da has traditionally been used to reflect on the “State of the Organization,” offering appreciative reflections of our various committees and organizational members and emphasizing our collective achievements, the long overdue need for self-reflection and accountability warrants a change of pace. Instead, I invite you to participate in and witness our continued efforts to identify and disentangle threads of White supremacy stitched into many structures of our theories, our organization, and ourselves. For this issue, I'd like to focus on the ongoing effort to restructure NCSPP as a more inclusive and sustainable home for our multiplexed community.

If you've been tracking what we've been up to over the last year, you will have read that NCSPP, like our local sister psychoanalytic organizations, is confronting our own racism — structures born out of, complicit with, and perpetuating White supremacy. Given the racist historical pillars undergirding our country and its many mechanisms for maintaining inequities, our organization has been immersed in White-centric values from the beginning. Additionally, the history of the psychoanalytic field has its own complex cultural dynamics and institutional beliefs that impact each of us and our organizations. While NCSPP has taken steps towards developing and implementing anti-racist structures (our Equity Clause), White- and Euro-centric world views have been informed NCSPP's decades-long organizational development and now needs further investigation, inquiry, and restructuring. Actions taken within the organization have led to appalling, heartbreaking violations of spaces created by and for BIPOC members.1 As a result, a number of BIPOC members feel that NCSPP is unsafe and have withdrawn from programming and membership.

You may also know that NCSPP has begun to work with consultants as we grapple with these racist structures and actions. Our intention is to seek professional insight, perspec