The immigration system is violent by design and attacks the minds, bodies, spirits of migrants, particularly those forcibly displaced and seeking safety…. more
Tag: mental health
Book Review – The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour
“Whether this book lands in the hands of practitioners or public library users, this thought-provoking volume might plant a wilful seed of dissent or create a thirst for transformation.”… more
Reimagining Safety Beyond Safeguarding
“When stuff gets really serious” is exactly the moment that liberatory and emancipatory practices are most needed, especially in relation to suicidality. Most safeguarding models operate in the opposite direction…. 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
Eating Disorder Treatment is Broken, and Only Abolition Can Fix It
In 1973, two IRA volunteers, sisters Marian and Dolours Price, began a hunger strike to protest their treatment by the… more