Darling Mental Health is closed today, Labor Day Monday, and we hope that everyone is enjoying the sunny New England weather!
This political holiday marks the US government recognition of labor unions and their impact on protecting rights for workers that reduces exploitation potentials and influences laws related to scheduling, overtime, fair pay/wages, and work-life balances. There is much work to still do in order to reach a labor centric economy, especially when the philosophies, culture, and structures of our world have been explicitly designed to protect the gentry from sharing resources & wealth equitably.
Darling Mental Health is a shared-profit business and politically supports higher corporate taxes and reduced loopholes for large businesses that incentivize payouts to the top, strict 10:1 pay structure limits between the highest and lowest paid employees, and that business related to prisons, healthcare, housing, and education should never be operated for venture capitalist profit. Businesses that influence an individual’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness should never be financially incentivized to allow for harm to systemically occur under their structures.
If you would like to know more about our politics, philosophies, ethics, and perceptions of how we work to decolonize therapy, support laborers, tradespeople, & the working class please come out and meet us this Saturday at Pride Worcester!
We will be positioned on Franklin Street near the Cocktail Garden!
In reflection of this holiday, we therefore view Paris Paloma’s video “LABOUR” to be a representation of the interactions between feminism & patriarchy; an allegory of the subjugated masses who live paycheck to paycheck and observe those who run our governments and misuse our tax dollars to protect the CEOs who have institutionalized slavery (prison labor programs), death & medical suffering (coverage and claim denials) deserve recognition for their impact on our collective mental health:
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