Tag: resistance

The systems we live under — capitalism, white supremacy, colonialism, and ableism — rely on our inability to imagine something different. They thrive when we believe the world we’ve been given is the only one possible. But every social movement, every act of liberation, began first as an act of imagination. Someone dreamed of freedom […]

What if the anxiety that grips you in quiet moments, the depression that settles like fog over your days, or that persistent sense that something fundamental is missing—what if these aren’t just personal struggles, but echoes of something much larger? There’s a golden thread connecting the historical trauma of colonization to the mental health challenges […]

Envisioning a Future Where We Care for Each Other The systems that claim to care for us, healthcare, psychiatry, social services, and policing, were not built with our survival in mind. For disabled, MAD, chronically ill, neurodivergent, queer, trans, BIPOC, and poor folks, these systems surveil, institutionalize, and harm us far more often than they […]

When the world feels like it’s on fire because in so many ways, it is our bodies that often bear the brunt.

Abolitionist therapy is not a niche. It's not an identity either. It is a daily practice of unlearning, of listening, and of choosing people over systems.

The urge to get rid of my hair has always been propelled by my uncertain and wavering idea about my gender.

What Is Peer Support?   Peer support is a mutual-aid model of care in which people with shared lived experiences provide emotional, social, and practical support to one another. Unlike Western colonial mental health systems that position professionals as the sole authorities on healing, peer support values lived experience as a source of wisdom. It operates […]