Three-Fifths Magazine
***This is a reading event, so there are no actual speakers.*** Readers are encouraged to read the articles by those listed as speakers, and many more, as part of the April Edition:

🧠 Our Mental Health: How Do We Recalibrate?
theme developed by Health and Wellness Editor Dr. Tashuna Albritton

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month—and the urgency has never been clearer.

Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults are living with mental illness.
Young adults are facing the highest rates.
Our youth are carrying silent burdens—many feeling hopeless, some contemplating the unthinkable.

This is more than a moment.
It’s a crossroads.

We are not only confronting a mental health crisis, but a crisis of access, equity, and understanding.

💭 So we ask:

How do we make care accessible for all—not just those who can afford it?
How do we dismantle stigma in communities where silence still prevails?
How do we ensure culturally competent care that truly meets people where they are?
How do we build a system that heals rather than excludes?

This May, writers, thinkers, advocates, and truth-tellers help us explore what it means to recalibrate—not just individually, but as a society.

✍🏾 Bring your voice.
Bring your lived experience.
Bring your solutions.

Because recalibration starts with honest conversation—and collective action.

Let’s confront the crisis.
Let’s challenge the system.
Let’s build something better—together.

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