Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD

Bard Prison Initiative, Director of Public Health Programs; Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

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[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

@The730Podcast is doing excellent and vital work right now broadcasting rich conversations that previously rarely saw the light of day!

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Episode 17: "Conversation in Black" with Brian Jackson https://t.co/NKGZw26ZvO

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Part of ⁦@kateschatz⁩ #Sharethemicnow series, I discuss the history of antiracist psychiatry and #Harlem’s first psychiatric clinic the #Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic #blackmentalhealthmatters https://t.co/quE4Z8swZu

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

The 10k only refers to those who left NYC for CT sought official change of address. What then is the full scale of the exodus and what is the actual demographic composition--not just a brief reference to it not really being an option for low wage workers? @uberliner @npr

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

@uberliner @npr It is astonishingly tone deaf and irresponsible not to mention the demographic composition of the 10k who’ve left during pandemic. #privilege #residentialsegregation https://t.co/yWlvKHZdns

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

The intersection of race and class is a key determinant in who has the means and opportunity to relocate from NYC to the suburbs, exurbs, or to towns upstate but w/commuting distance. @uberliner @npr

[Boston Review @BostonReview]

In partnership with @HarvardBooks, join us for a virtual Black Lives Matter panel discussion and fundraiser this Sunday. Featuring @KeeangaYamahtta, @CornelWest, @elizabhinton, and Robin D. G. Kelley, and moderated by @brandonmterry: https://t.co/WV1nfdjsjD

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Watch “BPI 20th Anniversary Commencement Retrospective” on #Vimeo https://t.co/JBa2I2gBys #bardprisoniniative #collegebehindbars #bpi20

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Really looking forward to this conversation with @YoloAkili @DepressedWBlack #BlackMentalHealthMatters

[#DepressedWhileBlack @DepressedWBlack]

Come thru this Friday, July 3 at 1 PM PST/4 PM ET where I talk with the amazing @_beamorg founder @YoloAkili about Black folks like myself who are or were once incarcerated in psychiatric jails and hospitals. Let's get free. #BETAwards2020

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

#blackmentalhealthmatters #BlackLivesMattters #underthestrainofcolor #fredricwertham #ralphellison #sheltonhalebishop #richardwright #lafargueclinic #harlem #cornelluniversitypress

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

In November 2015 I presented a reading of my then brand new book Under the Strain of Color at Harlem’s St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, the site where the Lafargue Clinic lived from 1946 to 1958. https://t.co/JlwcwT98jy

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

It was a magical experience as I was overwhelmed by the spirits of the ancestors who’d sat in the space where I was presenting the story of what occurred in that church parish house basement.
Have a look and have a read.
Free digital access:

https://t.co/9T9qR8E2Mu

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Stay tuned!

[Cornell University Press @CornellPress]

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[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Especially when the code name represents a fucked up misappropriation Black/Latinx cultural practices and naming. @adammansbach

[Adam Mansbach @adammansbach]

Just because a hate group invents a cutesy code name for itself does not mean the media has to use that code name. You don't have to call them "the boogaloo movement." You can just say "violent racists."

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

It is with that in mind that I consider the meaning of today’s commemoration of Juneteenth and recognize what the ending of chattel enslavement might have meant to those Black lives who could now sing out they were indeed SLAVES NO MORE! #juneteenth #Blm #Beeninthestormsolong

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

It truly is impossible to grasp what it felt like to move from the status of chattel slave to being a nominally free person.

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Contrary to many Afropessimists, I hold to the school of thought that there is a categorical, ontological, existential, and spiritual specificity to the status of being a slave vs. the wider continuum of unfreedom we’ve witnessed from June 19, 1865 to today.

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Check this out— an interview I did this past fall on @The730Podcast .

[The 730 Podcast @The730Podcast]

Gabriel N. Mendes breaks down how his interest in the novelist Richard Wright led him to writing his book “Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry.” Episode 5… https://t.co/jay4hOx4WI

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

My book #UndertheStrainofColor is now available to read for free at @CornellPress #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMentalHealthMatters https://t.co/9T9qR8E2Mu

[Gabriel N. Mendes, PhD @gnmendesPHD]

Made the mistake of starting to watch #KillBill V.1 -just wondering whether it was deliberate for each character to speak the same damn way— with syntax and duration of clauses only expressed in writing and never in speech. Ugh, the crap #Tarantino gets away with.