Dr. Sanah Ahsan
Clinical Psychologist - Poet - Writer - Speaker - Educator
About Sanah
“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling”
– bell hooks, all about love
Sanah Ahsan is an award-winning poet, writer, clinical psychologist and educator. Sanah works in the cracks, revering our messy emotional landscapes, and the wild edges of falling apart. Their psychological practice is rooted in liberation and community psychology, drawing on embodiment, therapeutics and poetics as life-affirming practices, to support racialised and marginalised people.
Selected Works
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The Lies About Mental Health
The Guardian article
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This Messy Song is Ours
Essay for Serpentine
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Palestine and Poetry Review
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Child Poverty is Preventable
Big Issue
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Racism and Children's Mental Health
Big Issue
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Rewriting My Story As A Queer Muslim
Ted Talk
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Stolen Focus: Why we can't pay attention
Panel with Gabor & Friends
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Propel Magazine
Issue Fifteen: Introduced and edited by Sanah Ahsan
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Endless Distraction and Inaction
The Psychologist article
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Charlotte Church conversation
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Allowing Our Hearts to Break
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Women and Mental Illness
The Guardian article
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Young, British and Depressed
Channel 4 Dispatches
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Therapy in Context
Sanah Ahsan and Bayo Akomolafe
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BBC Breakfast Interview
With Naga Munchetty
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All About Love: bell hooks in memoriam
Panel with w/ Mona Eltahawy & Malika Booker
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The Practice of Care & Freedom
Google Talk for AD Colour Leaders (Los Angeles, 2023)
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Anger, Activism & Healing
Conversation with Lama Rod Owens & Nova Reid, at The Conduit
I cannot be good
until you say it
Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's reach for divinity in the queer body; an archive that refuses erasure.
These poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, masculinity, intergenerational suffering, suicidality and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.
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