BIPOC Mental Health Month
This July, we are proud to honor
BIPOC Mental Health Month
. Recognized nationally and by NYS as "Minority Mental Health Awareness Month", we believe that the term "minority" emphasizes a power differential, perpetuates negative stereotypes, and removes personhood. We hope that this shift better honors the experiences of
Black, Indigenous People, and People of Color
.
Of course, language is just a piece of our needed transformation - we must take action. We embrace a racial equity and intersectional lens to center, understand, and respond to the range of experiences held by individuals and families with diverse values, beliefs, and sexual orientations, in addition to backgrounds that vary by race, ethnicity, religion, and language.
"While everyone - all colors - everyone is affected by stigma -
no one wants to say 'I'm not in control of my mind.'
No one wants to say,
'The person I love is not in control of [their] mind.'
But people of color really don't want to say it
because we already feel stigmatized by virtue of skin color
or eye shape or accent
and we don't want any more reasons for anyone to say,
'You're not good enough.'"
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