Safe Spaces for Black Women

Leyla Hussein is the co-founder of Safe Spaces for Black Women, created in 2020 to provide emotional and wellbeing support. Their mission is to serve as a safe space for Black women affected by COVID-19, the current political system, racism, patriarchy, and mental health issues. In this space, Black women can express and explore their experiences in the world through virtual meet-ups with qualified therapists providing support and facilitating sessions. 

Following high-profile cases of racial inequality and police brutality, many Black women feel traumatised and re-traumatised, left unable to sleep or concentrate on work, and continuously exhausted from seeing people who look like them mistreated, dehumanised, and murdered. Safe Spaces for Black Women acts as a wellbeing community in which these issues can be safely and openly addressed.