‘Being racialized in patriarchal capitalist settings, that does something to the mind’
Samara Linton moved to the UK from Jamaica at the age of seven, later attending medical school at Cambridge University. But her experience with medical and university institutions was not frictionless. Quickly she realized her mental health was deteriorating, but more so she found ‘a real disconnect’ between her experiences of distress, the conversations she combed through with friends and family, and what was being taught about mental health and psychiatry. Samara’s dual experiences of mental distress and role as a healthcare practitioner sparked her curiosity as to ‘how to reconcile those worlds’, as she puts it.
