Banned

What happens when a voice is silenced? Who holds power to account for itself?

Some support & info resources:

The Trevor Project:
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

BIPOC mental health resources:
https://www.thementalhealthcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BIPOC-Mental-Health-Resources.pdf

National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/Support-Education

National Mental Health Association (Mental Health America), including phone line & chat:
https://www.mhanational.org/finding-help

Carl Phillips’s poem “All the Love You’ve Got” can be read here.: https://poets.org/poem/all-love-youve-got

Aaron Smith’s poem “Shallow” was published in Allium & can be read here: https://allium.colum.edu/fall-2021-poetry-1/aaron-smith