COVID-19 forced us to slow down and stay home. We were also forced to think. To think about where our lives were headed, to think about our current political systems, and to think about our socio-economic systems. With more time to be on our devices and watching our TVs, more people were seeing the atrocities towards black people and other racialized bodies, with more time to sit and think about what was actually happening. It caused a bit of an uprising in our whole world (not just in our North American community).

Black mental health matters. Black mental health is important and it must be addressed. Being black impacts a person’s mental health in big ways. Significant historical patterns and systematic processes trickle down into our mental health.