Fuck Coming Out. Why Don’t Y’all Come the Fuck In?
Queerness and Connectio, Healing and Resistance, Culture and Mental Health, Boundaries and Self-Definition, Community and Connection, Identity and Self-Acceptance, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Queerness and Connectio, Healing and Resistance, Culture and Mental Health, Boundaries and Self-Definition, Community and Connection, Identity and Self-Acceptance, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

Fuck Coming Out. Why Don’t Y’all Come the Fuck In?

Fuck coming out. We’re staying the fuck inside. Our sexuality isn’t a TED Talk. Our gender isn’t your HR diversity exercise where someone nods gravely and says, “Thank you for sharing.” (Translation: please don’t sue us.) Straight people roll through life unexamined, while we’re expected to hold press conferences at family holidays. Our cousins bring home a Tinder date and it’s “Pass the gravy.” We bring our partners and it’s suddenly a symposium: “So how do you two… uh… live?

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Decolonizing Mental Health: Indigenous Wisdom, Land, and Liberation
Land and Liberation, Ancestry and Remembrance, Community and Ritual, Healing and Resistance, Culture and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Land and Liberation, Ancestry and Remembrance, Community and Ritual, Healing and Resistance, Culture and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

Decolonizing Mental Health: Indigenous Wisdom, Land, and Liberation

Mental health didn’t start with therapy. It didn’t start with Freud. It didn’t start with the DSM or CBT worksheets or mindfulness apps.

We always had ways of tending to the mind and body long before any insurance company decided what counted as a billable hour.

But here we are—trying to heal inside systems never built with us in mind. Systems that pathologize grief but ignore genocide. That diagnoses anxiety but says nothing about displacement…

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Break the Stigma: Mental Health Matters in Every Community
Stigma and Storytelling, Community and Connection, Truth and Accountability, Healing and Resistance, Access and Equity, Culture and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Stigma and Storytelling, Community and Connection, Truth and Accountability, Healing and Resistance, Access and Equity, Culture and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

Break the Stigma: Mental Health Matters in Every Community

We can’t afford to keep sweeping things under the rug. In real time, we are in a state of collective exhaustion. Inflation is making it hard for families to stay afloat, racial tensions continue to rise, and communities of color are still fighting for basic rights and recognition. Add in the impact of constant police brutality, mass shootings, and political unrest, and you’ve got a mental health crisis that’s hard to ignore.

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