Welcome to SZN II! Part of a three episode mini series, MIND YOUR BUSINESS will be looking at some precarious connections between mental health and race. We look into mental health through the foundations of *gasp and silence*, psychoanalysis. Taken from our dear Carribean French thinkers (eyes sway to Cesaire and Fanon), we look at how being racialized effects mental well being. We look at projection and repression, of what it means for the psyche to experience racism and how it comes back in ways that we wouldn't think of.

We go full on, A+, front of class student and talk about the Lafargue Clinic, the first affordable psychiatrist for Black people in the United States. The clinic took the social effect of racism as the cause for a series of mental illness for the patients, and above all listened to their narratives! We dig this all back up to think about how important mental health is in relation to social environment, since racialization leaves no one untouched. Freud would be turning in his grave right now y'all!