Tamùkke Feminist Rising
Guyana
In Guyana, LGBTQI+ people living with mental illness face a double barrier of discrimination.
Enter Tamùkke Feminist Rising, a brave force for change that takes an intersectional approach to all of its work. Every day, its committed team helps provide accurate, stigma-free information on sexual health while fighting for reproductive, economic, and social rights among women, LGBTQI+ people, and sex workers.
This year, with support from WVL-Caribbean, Tamùkke launched the MIND Fund, a powerful new resource that connects LGBTQI+ women to professional mental health counselors and covers the cost of their treatment. The program is a direct response to the hurdles LGBTQI+ people, particularly women, face in accessing culturally competent, affordable mental health care.
And demand for services keeps growing. Tamùkke reports that 33 women are now utilizing the MIND Fund to access mental health therapy. In the words of one participant: “I wanted to seek professional counseling for a long time but I didn’t know where to start. The Mind Fund found me—and yes, I really believe it found me when I needed it the most.”