by MCH | Jun 12, 2025 | Care
Too often in Caribbean mental health care, the default is over-medication and confinement—locking people away instead of unlocking their potential. But real healing requires more. As a young Black teacher, I see myself as CIA analyst Carmen Medina fought to disrupt...
by MCH | Jun 11, 2025 | Care
She’s been home for about four or five days now. The weekend Monday was a holiday Tuesday, we attended Joey’s mom’s funeral Wednesday was our stay-at-home day By Thursday, I could feel the restlessness starting to creep in — that quiet, uneasy energy that often shows...
by MCH | Jun 10, 2025 | Care
The law textbook sits unopened while you meal prep for 2-3 hours daily, immediately after a 2-hour morning walk. Your laptop screen dims as you help your mother remember to take her medication and pick her clothing and activities for the day.All of this happens before...
by MCH | Jun 4, 2025 | Care, Community
Don’t mind we lil house, yuh hear? We might not have plenty things, but we rich in we heart, rich in love, and rich in de kind of spirit dat money doh buy a lot of and we thankful for di day Anyways So yesterday now, I tell Angela plain—she cyan’t take no more ah me...
by MCH | Jun 2, 2025 | Courage
Michel Foucault’s theory of power suggests that power exists within relationships and interactions, rather than as something that can be transferred or owned. Foucault believed that power isn’t a thing—it’s not like a chair you can give to someone else....