July is BIPOC Mental Health Month, and you’re invited
This month, I’m inviting you to join me in supporting Mental Health Liberation. Our donations will help connect people of color with high-quality mental healthcare from BIPOC providers, at no cost — and support BIPOC clinicians during their training and early careers.
Individual trauma and social oppression tend to harm people in similar ways, and they need similar kinds of healing. People of color in the United States, particularly Black and Indigenous folks, bear the heaviest burdens of both kinds of harm — and they’re also the least likely to have get the support they need to heal.
That’s not just because white supremacy makes all forms of support harder to access for people of color, although it certainly does. It’s because the very idea of “mental health” excluded people of color from the start. That’s been changing since the middle of the 20th century, but far too slowly — which is why it matters that July is nationally recognized as BIPOC Mental Health Month.
