Dr Akima Thomas OBE
@AkimaThomas
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Making a change. Psychotherapist, intersectional feminist activist. Bringing Revolutionary Love✊🏽❤️ Founder & Clinical Director @womenandgirlsn
London, England
Joined February 2013
Resilience, Resistance, Rebellion, Recovery ... The HER model pathways to healing for survivors of gender based violence. DM for more info. #metoo #domesticabuse
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Ya power to the women ✊🏽❤️
'I stand on their shoulders'
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As part of our #BlackHistoryMonth Instagram line-up we spoke with @AkimaThomas, founder and Clinical Director of WGN, about #Activism, #BlackLeadership, #RevolutionaryLove & more. Watch part 1 of the interview here:
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This #WorldMentalHealthDay let’s talk about #mentalhealth & racism. Not just because it’s #BlackHistoryMonth, but because it needs to be talked about! Read about how racism affects Black people's mental health, and experiences with mental health services in the images below
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CA just became the first state in the nation to mandate the study and development of proposals for reparations. Our past is one of slavery, racism, and injustice. Our systems were built to oppress people of color. It’s past time we acknowledge that.
latimes.com
In a year of national protests against racial injustice, state lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 3121 to force the state to begin to confront its racist history and systemic disparities that persist...
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Book now for Friday - pay what you decide from £1 - some seriously brilliant speakers and a brand new monologue from me. I love 💕💗💕 this movement - kick ass challenge to damaging medicalisation of mental health ✊🏼💗✊🏼
None of these people accept the pathologising of emotional distress and they will tell you why in all sorts of creative ways at the #AD4Efestival on September 18th (supported by @onlinevents ) 🧡 🌍🎵 Book now & donate what you want! #adisorder4everyone
https://t.co/EQwLFPo4Ab
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Out Rage .... I see you
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Look out for our very own @AkimaThomas at Sticky Labels: Women and the Mental Health System @WOWisGlobal today exploring the politics of women and mental health, and the misogyny within the contemporary psychiatric diagnostic framework.
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So can we please STOP with the why doesn't she just leave? Most women who flee domestic violence have nowhere to go
theguardian.com
Survivors face returning to their abuser or sleeping rough as they can’t prove they are vulnerable to council housing officers
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I’ll be facilitating a workshop with @AkimaThomas around creative approaches to trauma on the 13th February - join us 🌀 #ADisorder4Everyone
eventbrite.co.uk
"A Disorder for Everyone!" - Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis and exploring trauma informed alternatives in association with The Women's Centre Cornwall AD4E is coming to Cornwall!...
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"Patriarchy is our judge that imprisons us at birth," the protesters chanted, performing an anti-rape anthem that has been staged all over the world.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
“The rapist is you. It’s the cops. The judges. The state. The president,” chanted the protesters performing an anti-rape anthem by Chilean feminist group LasTesis.
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Words fail me to express the love and gratitude I feel for the fierce womxn @WomenandGirlsN and everyone holding space, making us reflect, laugh, challenge, build power at #ThinkingUnderFire2019 yesterday. Memories will stay firmly in my heart for many, many moons @VirdeeGurpreet
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Imagination is sometimes a casualty of trauma. It’s not always a priority. Imagination can support alternative meaning. The wake is not only trauma. That would be a single story. There is also pleasure & joy. @FolukeTaylor #ThinkingUnderFire2019
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who attending our #ThinkingUnderFire2019 Conference. It was a truly incredible day with such inspirational speakers, facilitators, performers and attendees! Sending you all love and thanks ❤️❤️
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WGNs Directors @VirdeeGurpreet @AkimaThomas with the incredible Angela Davis before her keynote speech at #MeTooReykjavik #AngelaDavis “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” ✊🏽❤️
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Here’s the dynamic force of nature that is @AkimaThomas from @WomenandGirlsN author of Ch 9 in #dropthedisorder entitled ‘Resistance, rebellion, resilience & recovery’ & if that title doesn’t want to make you read it I don’t know what will. It’s superb!💜 https://t.co/S57Wk9KvD0
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