Anti-Blackness and sanism in mental health care

Project LETS

Interrogating anti-Blackness and sanism in mental health care

Care Beyond the (Carceral) State

A series of events centered on disrupting psychiatric violence and care outside of the system.

A workshop exploring the many ways anti-Blackness and sanism inform the "care" mental health workers offer and concrete ways to interrupt this violence in clinical spaces. This workshop will center the lived experience of those harmed by these systems of oppression while interacting with the mental health system.Cap: 25 participants. Open to Black students and practitioners of mental health care / studies / disciplines. about the facilitator:Alyssa Christopher (they/them) is a mad, fat, disabled, Black/biracial, genderfluid agent of rage and sometimes (a lot of the time) 4th year clinical psych grad student. Their work in clinical psych spaces is focused on interrupting carcerality/anti-Blackness/sanism/queer-/transphobia, and radicalizing other mad mental health workers into fugitivity/co-conspiracy with (mad) liberation and psychiatric abolition. They hope to offer this workshop as a space for Black mental health "care" workers/students to build critical consciousness around sanism and explore what fugitivity/co-conspirator action looks like when Black mad lives are at the center of our care politics. In their free time you can find Alyssa reading romance novels (and crying), watching anime, getting tattooed, painting pictures of the clouds/sky, and dreaming about food/new recipes.

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