Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira talk to Amy Wells from NSUN about lived experience work at the intersections of anti-racism and mental health.
Kadra (lead, Children & Young People’s Mental Health at Centre for Mental Health, and organiser, Charity So White) and António (mental health activist/speaker and student) discuss the dynamics of lived experience based ‘work’ in anti-racism and mental health from the challenges and barriers to what nurtures this kind of activity. They touch on the “hard to reach” narrative, the state of anti-racism work within the mental health charity sector, and the emotional toll of doing this kind of work and activism.
Links:
- Follow Kadra on Twitter: twitter.com/Kadra_A_
- Follow António on Twitter: twitter.com/Antothenio
- Find out more about #CharitySoWhite: charitysowhite.org
- Find out more about António’s tokenism campaign: www.antonioferreira.co.uk/campaigns