Today at the final of the World Cup, I only hope the players on the field and the whole world remembers that there’s a man and fellow footballer called Amir Nasr, on death row, only for speaking in favor of Women’s rights.
If a child tells you they feel like they don’t fit in, stop responding with trite phrases about “individuality/standing out”. It is a cry for community/friendship. Children desire connection and shared human experiences too.
I know this is a complex issue and I am not an ethicist …but I am mortified that we would approve MAiD for mental illness in Canada before we would approve comprehensive publicly-funded access to mental healthcare.
Plenty of people are mentally ill, and still they manage to not murder LGBTQ+ people in cold blood. The murderer has a VIOLENCE and PREJUDICE problem, not a “mental health” problem
Please stop using mental illness to explain away Kanye West's anti-Semitic rants. Millions of people are dealing with mental health issues, and they don't go on anti-Semitic rants.
After 18 days of general strike the people of Ecuador have forced the government to lower gas prices, limit oil exploration and mining, and protect parks and water sources. The government now has 90 days to deliver on the other demands of Indigenous groups, or they strike again.
Access to abortion is suicide prevention.
Access to housing is suicide prevention.
Equality is suicide prevention.
Raising minimum wage is suicide prevention.
Don’t be fooled by the expansion of funding for mental health access. They literally have no grasp on what people need.
Hope doesn’t preclude feeling sadness or frustration or anger or any other emotion that makes total sense. Hope isn’t an emotion, you know? Hope is not optimism. Hope is a discipline… we have to practice it every single day.
- Mariame Kaba
Maxine Waters and Al Green among members of Congress who've shown up outside the Supreme Court to denounce the end of Roe. "Women are going to control their bodies, no matter how they try and stop us," Waters says. "The hell with the Supreme Court, we will defy them."
Therapy is anything that helps you through life.
It’s in nature.
It’s in sports.
It’s in music.
It’s in art.
It’s in all forms of healing.
It’s not just in $120/hr office visits.