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Patricia and Teá are the therapists leading the alternative and controversial Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy at the old MacGregor Plantation in Virginia. They are a couple (which they now reveal to the participants) and, together, they have shaped and formed their unique therapy over the last five years. Patricia is a black woman, who identifies as light brown, while Teá is mixed-race. Patricia has an academic background in cognitive psychology and Teá specializes in black feminism and
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START: PATRICIA: Ok,
I think this is a good place to reorient and refocus
on what brought us here:
Tackling your anhedonia at its source.
TEÁ: Yes,
this therapy,
Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy,
this process,
has been shaped by the two of us
[... …]
END: TEÁ: And like,
that’s scary you know?
To realize that like
even with all the big work we have to do in the macro,
systemically
there’s even bigger work
but in the micro of the mind
that isn’t being done at all.
Jeremy O. Harris. Slave Play, Theatre Communications Group (electronic edition), 2019. Pp. 116-120.
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