Tourettes, Racism and Responsibility: Through the SSF Lens

What happens at the BAFTA (s) when an involuntary tic uses a word with centuries of racial violence behind it. Exploring Tourettes, Racism and Responsibility.

In this episode of Through the SSF Lens, Dr Shungu H. M’gadzah explores a real-world incident involving Tourette syndrome, coprolalia (involuntary taboo speech) and the N-word – and asks how we can hold disability, racism and responsibility together without using one to silence the others.

Drawing on the Six Stages Framework (SSF), Shungu looks at:

• What Tourette’s and coprolalia actually are – and why tics can be involuntary and deeply distressing.

• Why the content of a tic is shaped by our cultural environment and the language we live with.

• How institutions can retreat into the Cave of Comfort/Privilege by saying “it’s not his fault” while leaving Black pain unnamed.

• What a more +1 / +2 response might sound like when disability and racism collide in public spaces.

She also offers reflection questions to help you locate yourself and your organisation on the SSF continuum:

• Who did you rush to protect first when you heard this kind of story?

• What language is alive in your world, even if you never say it out loud?

• Where would you place yourself Through the SSF Lens – from resistance, to awareness, to active allyship and inclusive leadership?

🧠 About the Six Stages Framework

The Six Stages Framework, developed by Dr Shungu H. M’gadzah, is a developmental model that maps how individuals and organisations move from denial and resistance through to empathy, equity and transformational leadership across race, disability, gender, neurodivergence and other differences.

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👤 Host: Dr Shungu H. M’gadzah – Chartered Educational Psychologist, Founder of Inclusion Psychologists Ltd and Creator of the Six Stages Framework

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