The immigration system is violent by design and attacks the minds, bodies, spirits of migrants, particularly those forcibly displaced and seeking safety…. more
Category: Mental health & social justice
Back to Ends: Racialised Men & Safeguarding
The statistics for racialised communities and the damage that’s enacted due to improper safeguarding and care are quite telling… NHS figures from 2020 revealed that Black communities in England were four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act… more
Barriers to Mental Health Support for People of Colour and Migrants
The common refrain “mental health does not discriminate” might be intended to remind us that anyone can experience mental distress, but it doesn’t do justice to the fact that mental distress is political…. more
Lived experience work: anti-racism & mental health (podcast)
Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira talk to Amy Wells from NSUN about lived experience work at the intersections of anti-racism… more
Why disability justice is a mental health conversation, and mental health is a disability justice conversation
Ellie Thompson from Diversity and Ability unpacks how mental ill-health, distress and trauma intersect with disablement. As a social enterprise… more
Whiteness as a chemical restraint in the statutory guidance of the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
Tribute to Seni’s Law and Aijibola Lewis The last year has witnessed a proliferation of events, funding, and consultations around… more
Cognitive justice and survival
Survivors at the sharp end of oppressive practices and history, don’t need rhetoric, game playing or a supremacist gaze but a compassionate praxis always moving toward justice…. more
Through Pain Unbearable and Impossible to Name
Imagine that this is not how people see you. Imagine that the stain has been washed off. Imagine that you never sat on the pavement while the paramedics laughed and refused to place you in an ambulance and take you to the hospital, to offer care to a homeless body, a corrupt body, a worthless body, an unnecessary body. Imagine that it didn’t strike you as strange even then: the way your friend’s voice rose in a crescendo of disbelief and outrage, the way you couldn’t quite believe it, couldn’t quite emphasize with their pain. As if you had value. As if you were a human being. As if you were worth saving…. more
Why The KillTheBill Movement Affects Everyone
On Monday, the police powers bill that has been the topic of a summer of protest under the #KillTheBill movement… more
The Perspective of Mental Health within the BAME Community
Growing up as a child in the Caribbean, I remember that any mention of the subject mental health meant that… more
Alleviating the pain by Freed Voices
In the 14th post in our series #NSUNCovidLife, Red from Freed Voices calls for the release of people detained in immigration detention. Watch… more
David Gibbs: Vision in a Current Distress
In the 5th post in our series #NSUNCovidLife, David Gibbs writes about hope and how Covid-19 must not derail anti-racism… more