Exploring the History of Black Women's Mental Health Organising in Britain from the 1970s - Present Day

这个项目将探讨黑人妇女的心理健康运动，以及她们如何看待自20世纪70年代以来她们对社会运动的影响。它将讨论黑人女性心理健康组织者面临的挑战和机遇，以及她们如何能够沿着性别、种族、性向、阶级和政治意识形态的界线动员起来。该项目将首次深入报道英国黑人女性的心理健康活动。我的研究成果将包括与当地组织社区的接触。黑人女性在关于社会变革的历史和社会学文献中基本上是缺席的，特别是健康行动主义和女权主义。在关于精神病学和社会运动的文献中，他们的集体能动性也被忽视了。它将为黑人女性如何进行批判性政治分析并将其转化为实践提供新的视角。该项目的核心是创新和实验，将以前未被探索的档案收藏与制作它们的人结合起来，从而提供了对黑人妇女社区组织的独特见解。这篇论文将包括书面和口头档案文学，灰色文学和那些由英国黑人心理健康活动家制作的。该项目与BCA和当地社区组织者的合作将为研究提供信息，了解档案材料如何为当今激进组织之间的联盟建设提供重要影响。

This project will explore Black women's mental health campaigning and how they perceived their impact on social movements since the 1970s. It will address what challenges and opportunities did Black women mental health organisers face and how they were able to mobilise along lines of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class and political ideology. The project will result in the first in-depth account of Black women's mental health activism in Britain. My research outcomes will include an engagement with the local organising community. Black women are largely absent in the historical and sociological literature on social change, specifically health activism and feminism. Their collective agency has also been overlooked in the literature on psychiatry and social movements. It will offer new perspectives on how Black women could undertake critical political analyses and turn them into praxis. The project is at its core innovative and experimental in using previously under explored archival collections in conjunction with the people who produced them and thus provides a unique insight into Black women's community organising in general. The thesis will encompass written and oral archival literature, grey literature and those produced by Black mental health campaigners in the UK. This projects collaboration with the BCA and local community organisers will inform the research on how the archival material has the potential of providing important implications for coalition building amongst activist groups today.