Ep 56 Wendy Magee

Wendy Magee has a background in practice and scholarship
concerning music interventions for brain injury rehabilitation.
She moved to Philadelphia in 2011, a city with the fourth largest
African American population and the highest rate of deep poverty
in the US. Navigating the evident inequities for marginalized
people in her new home city has offered her opportunities to
learn about social justice, albeit from a position of privilege.
She describes herself as being at the start of a long journey of
learning how to challenge the existing systems that maintain
dominant narratives and ensure social inequities, of how to
practice allyship, and of learning how to put well-meaning
thoughts into action, saying that there is much to learn.


In this episode, Wendy follows on from her seminal keynote
lecture at the most recent BAMT conference, highlighting issues
of race, equality and privilege with Davina.  She talks
about personal and painful experiences which highlighted for her,
how privilege can be present in everyday life and do its damage
without being necessarily aware.  She starts to explore
issues of white supremacy to unpack that emotive term and think
about how it is applied to music therapy.