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 May Edition: 🧠Our Mental Health: How Do We … Continue reading Our Mental Health: How Do We Recalibrate?
It is no surprise to many that we are in the midst of a mental health crisis. Ask a teacher, ask an employer, ask a caseworker, and I’m sure they would agree that they do not need statistics to confirm … Continue reading Building Mental Health Systems with Community, Not Just For Community
Introduction Creating culturally centered therapeutic interventions begins with understanding how communities experience and make meaning of suffering. However, if we are to truly recalibrate mental health, we must also examine the coping mechanisms that already exist within those communities. For … Continue reading Life is Hard, but I Am Coping
At first glance, nothing seems wrong. A teenager is still going to school, still handing in assignments, still moving from class to club to homework late into the night. In high-achieving environments, distress often does not look dramatic. It looks … Continue reading When “I’m Fine” Actually Means “I’m Overwhelmed”
March is Women’s Month, and every year it brings a mix of celebration and quiet tension. Black women often shoulder extra responsibilities, more work, more caregiving, more challenges, yet receive less support, understanding, and fewer opportunities. As a Generation X … Continue reading March of the Machines: Black Women, Women’s Month, and the Fight to Stay Human
The old adage, “speech is silver, silence is golden” suggests that silence is what we should aspire to. Yet silence – the censoring or withholding of thought, insight, and self – is what divides us. If we want to stay … Continue reading Choosing Voice Over Silence: The Power of Connection
At a rate of 67,000 miles per hour, celestial sojourners are we. For eons together preceded by our ancestors, and those who preceded them. We balance each millisecond between the depths of a hopeless annihilation of a plunge into the … Continue reading Unbroken
One of the greatest challenges I faced in becoming an executive leader was learning how to influence others in difficult circumstances, especially when goals, vision, and mission do not fully align. Early in my leadership journey, I believed that a … Continue reading Unbroken: Lessons In Influence From Indigenous And Faith Traditions
While we often think of health as something that happens in the realm of health care, a holistic and research-based perspective points to health being a multifaceted state of being that is influenced by multiple interdependent factors. As noted by … Continue reading Health Equity as a Workplace Imperative
