Thread by @bryinlyin

i don't want celebrities talking to me about mental health. they're figureheads of capitalism & individualism. they cannot, by definition, care about the collective good. i want my friends & family & neighbors & colleagues talking to me about mental health -- theirs, mine, ours.

i completely appreciate that rich powerful people also have emotional struggles; i hope they can find support where it makes sense for them. but i have no interest in the paper thin care discourses of millionaires whose public image is a celebration of the unattainable

we don't need pop culture to model or make visible things that thousands of brilliant, dedicated people with far less social power have been teaching us (often at a great cost to themselves) forever;

(neoliberal white supremacist) corporations & elite cultural spaces & their shining ambassadors are never going to engage with the structural roots of psychological pain & trauma, because these institutions are directly responsible for creating & sustaining that pain

all they can do is sell us shit to momentarily quell our grief. bluntly, it's just another form of shopping the pain away.

by contrast, the strength & resilience that comes from feeling held by & holding the ppl you are *actually* interdependent with -- that's fucking powerful