We condemn genocide and colonial denial

“As so many Black scholars have posited, none of us are living single-issue lives and the lives of Palestinians, Congolese, Sudanese, Ethiopians, Haitians and anywhere else US imperialism has touched, must be of top of mind when fighting for Black liberation.”

- Ericka Hart

The following is information provided by Inclusive therapists

with whom we support and stand by in solidarity with.

Content warning: genoc*de, mass murder, racialized violence

We condemn...

  • the mental health field's complicity to gen*cide

  • staying silent as children that don't look like yours are mass murdered

  • getting cultural competence CEUs but “can't tell” when gen*cide is occurring 

  • reading "white fragility" but "just cannot" witness ongoing gen*cide

  • seeking justification when Black, Indigenous, Brown people are murdered by our own government

  • shaming and bullying Jewish people calling for Ceasefire

  • attacking Black femme scholars whose quotes you leveraged for "likes"

  • demanding Black, Indigenous and People of Color to be your mouthpiece 

  • professors, supervisors, practice owners operating business-as-usual 

  • blaming Black, Indigenous and People of Color for “not seeking therapy” - look around

From Palestine to Congo to Haiti to Sudan to Ferguson,

WE WILL ALL BE FREE

End the Mental Health Field’s

Complicity to Genocide

Open Letter Demanding Immediate Action and Accountability

Land Back Statement

We say the following with the understanding that land does not require you to confirm it exists but that you reciprocate the care it has given you and fight for its return to the indigenous people.

Let this decolonial healing space be an offering to the land and our ancestors that represents our respect and commitment to our collective liberation.

We humbly and actively fight for the rights of the indigenous people of this land: the Lenni Lenape, Shawnee, and Hodinöhšönih (hoe-den-ah-show-nee)—the six Nations, that is, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora (tus-ka-roar-ah).

We are gathered today on Jö:deogë’ (joan-day-o-gan’t), an Onödowa'ga (ono-do-wah-gah) or Seneca word for Pittsburgh or “between two rivers”: the welhik hane (well-ick hah-neh) and Mënaonkihëla (men-aw-n-gee-ah-luh). These are the Lenape words for the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which translate to the “best-flowing river of the hills” and “where the banks cave in and erode.”

We are reminded that we are voluntary or involuntary uninvited settlers and colonizers on indigenous land. Let this land statement be an opening for all of us to contemplate a way to join in decolonial and indigenous movements for sovereignty and self-determination.

If you would like to be more involved just talk to your TC therapist for local community connections and action. Find out whose land you occupy here.

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