Toward Abolitionist Praxis: Dismantling the Mental Health Industrial Complex and Reimagining Lived Experience (ft. Parth Sharma)
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Join us for a seminar and open forum with Parth Sharma (he/they) Abolitionist, Anti-colonial Scholar, Global Mental Health Researcher.
In this session, we critically examine how the Mental Health Industrial Complex (MHIC) compounds harm for people, especially those from marginalized groups, by reinforcing the very social determinants of health that exacerbate distress, such as poverty, discrimination, and state violence. Rooted in community-based participatory research, and drawing from anti-colonial, intersectional feminist and abolitionist frameworks, this session synthesizes insights from youth-led collectives, community-based practices, and cross-movement solidarities (including disability and climate justice) to reimagine mental health. It highlights alternative approaches that centre Indigenous knowledge systems, relational forms of care, and the leadership of young people with diverse and intersecting identities, particularly from the Global South.