Transforming Mental Health and Feminism through Art Favorite 

Practitioner: 

Date: 

May 13 2021

Location: 

Hong Kong

She seeks to utilize her feminist art to spread awareness on mental health issues. Sravy is a nomad in her own right, and throughout her experiences in Asia she has noticed that there are stimas surrounding women's autonomy and how they handle mental health struggles. Through her artistic expression she vows to help curate a safer space for women to feel pride and community and those struggling with mental health issues to find comfort in their communities.

External sources: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/aravya-attaluri-activist-art-mental…
Posted by nahlahabdur on May 13 2021

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Does nothing (at all)Doesn't really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist's dissatisfaction with the world.
OtherHelps bring about change in a way not accounted for in the options above. Please describe how it does this in the text box below.
Provides (a useful service)Provides a useful social service.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
to help break stigma surrounding mental health and expanding feminism

Notes

Powerful that a young woman is showcasing her art to help break down barriers regarding feminism and mental health in the multiple communities she belongs to.