Esther Armah sought a change of scenery for her own emotional well-being, so she relocated to Accra, Ghana, some years back, and now tends oranges in her backyard. It wouldn’t make sense, she says, for her to preach emotional justice — a term she coined in her work centered around racial healing — and not put it into practice.

Now, through her writing, advocacy, and the Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, she is building a global movement rooted in honesty, storytelling, healing, and rejecting respectability politics.

The Roots of Emotional Justice

Indeed, “rejection” is a concept Armah embraces. She says that in the work of emotional justice, one must reject narratives that center whiteness. One must also reject sacrificing one’s own mental health for the sake of others. One must rej

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