Not only are teens leading many of America's gun reform movements, but they're also organizing around mental health awareness
The fact that it's now up to youth activists to fix a systemic societal failure is not lost on Kenidra.
that block marginalized people from obtaining the mental and emotional healthcare they need. While great loss has the capacity to shake people to the core, so many people in neglected communities just push forward, untreated, with mental and emotional wounds that never heal, and proliferative scar tissue that never matures. They are forced to live in a nation where oppression is inescapable, and the trauma that results is a feature of the system, not a glitch.
Dr. Aladejebi also believes in actively combating the stigma surrounding mental healthcare, given that many low-income people believe it is only a necessity for either the weak or the crazed. “Go talk about mental health when things are going good,” she says. “Part of how the Black community has been taught about when mental health should be treated is when things are bad, but that’s not how mental health works.
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