MENTAL WELLNESS
SHOP TO SUPPORTKEY ISSUES
ENSURE AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE, AND PERSON-CENTERED MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES...
OPPOSE THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS THAT PLACES LAW ENFORCEMENT ON THE FRONT LINES...
INCREASE THE USE OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TRAINED IN DE-ESCALATION AND INTERVENTION...
END PRACTICES THAT WORSEN MENTAL HEALTH LIKE CONVERSION THERAPY, SOLITARY CONFINEMENT...
EXPAND MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE SYSTEMS IN EVERY COMMUNITY, INCLUDING SUICIDE PREVENTION...
ADDRESS HISTORIC DISINVESTMENT AND RESOURCE GAPS IN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AND HOW HOUSING...
SUPPORT PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION MEASURES, INCLUDING MENTAL HEALTH CARE...
THE MERCH
PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR MENTAL WELLNESS
“The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.”
Naomi Klein
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take:+
- Take pledges to be StigmaFree and #Vote4MentalHealth
- Tell Congress to fund Mental Health Research
- Call your Senators to act for youth mental health and support the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act and the Mental Health Services for Students Act.
Organizations To Support + Follow:+
- AAPI Journalists Therapy Relief Fund
- Active Minds
- Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC)
- Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)
- Fireweed Collective
- GirlTrek
- Healing by Choice
- Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
- Mental Health America
- Monster Academy
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- National Empowerment Center
- National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
- No Stigmas Network
- Project Semicolon
- RAD Remedy
- Start Your Recovery
- The Loveland Foundation
- The Nap Ministry
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Trans Lifeline
- Trevor Project
- Vibrant Emotional Health
Finding Care (licensed counselors):+
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:+
- Articles —
- 8 Lessons That Show How Emotional Labor Defines Women’s Lives — Kai Cheng Thom via Everyday Feminism
- A History of Self-Care From its radical roots to its yuppie-driven middle age to its election-inspired resurgence. — Aisha Harris via Slate
- A Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice Movement, 2010–2016 — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha via Mice Magazine
- Care at Scale: Bodies, Agency, and Infrastructure — Debbie Chachra via Comment
- Caring for Ourselves as Political Warfare — adrienne maree brown via her blog
- Healing Justice: Building Power, Transforming Movements — Susan Raffo via Astrea Foundation
- Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide — Autumn Brown & Maryse Mitchell-Brody via Just Healing
- If Your Goal In Therapy Is To ‘be Happy,’ You Might Want To Rethink That. Here’s Why. — Sam Dylan Finch via Everyday Feminism
- Invest in AAPI mental health — Antiracism Daily
- Is Self-Care an Act of Political Warfare? Hell yes, we can get on board with that. — Rituparna Som via Vice
- Is It Time to Abandon the Term “Climate Anxiety”? — Isobel Whitcomb via Yes Magazine
- Living With Multiple Mental Illnesses: 7 Things To Know & How To Be a Better Ally — Mihran Nersesyan via The Body Is Not An Apology
- Mental-Health Services Come to Women’s Tennis, Inspired by Osaka — Lucas Shaw via Bloomberg
- Most Habit-Change Tools Fail With Anxiety—Here’s One that Works — Judson Brewer via mindful
- My Ancestors and the Cells That Bind Me to Them — Adiba Nelson via Parents
- Reflections from Detroit: Transforming Wellness & Wholeness — Cara Page via INCITE’s Blog
- ‘Self-Care’ Isn’t the Fix for Late-Pandemic Malaise — Jamil Zaki via The Atlantic
- Support Black mental health — Antiracism Daily
- There is No Self Care without Community Care — by Aimaloghi Eromosele via URGE
- What the Global AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Our Approach to Mental Illness — Dr. Ashwin Vasan via Common Dreams
- Books —
- A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet — Sarah Jacquette Ray
- Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method: Toward a Theory and Practice of Critical Socioanalysis — Joel Michael Crombez
- Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement — edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World — Glenn A. Albrecht
- Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators — Mariame Kaba, Shira Hassan
- Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm — Kazu Haga
- Heavy: An American Memoir — Kiese Laymon
- Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws — Kate Bornstein and Sara Quin
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy — Jenny Odell
- How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care — Marlee Grace
- Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger — Lama Rod Owens
- Madness & Oppression: Paths to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation — Icarus Project
- Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System by Rosemary Radford Ruether with David Ruether
- (Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts our Preconception of Mental Health — Jonathan Foiles
- More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement — Jennifer Nelson
- Notes on Grief — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change — Octavia Raheem
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good — adrienne maree brown
- Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain — Tara Brach
- Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World — Jamie Varon
- Radical Remedies: An Herbalist's Guide to Empowered Self-Care — Brittany Ducham
- Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief edited by Cindy Milstein
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself — Nedra Glover Tawwab
- The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Bessel Van Der Kolk
- The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love — Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health — Zena Sharman
- The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being — William Davies
- The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy — Karen Walrond
- The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice — Staci Haines
- The Salt Eaters — Toni Cade Bambara
- The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve — Rheeda Walker
- Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture — Nora Samaran
- We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice — adrienne maree brown
- You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience — edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
- Listen —
- Healing Justice as Cultural Organizing — Mic Check! Podcast
- Irresistible (fka Healing Justice podcast)
- Therapy for Black Girls podcast
- Watch —
- Mental Health at the Intersections of Drug Use and Sex Work — Fireweed Collective
- Nanette — Netflix
- Radical Self Care: Angela Davis — YouTube
- The Social Dilemma — Netflix
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated May 21, 2022.