Camila Cabello launches fund providing mental health support for activists

Camila Cabello has launched the Healing Justice Project, a fund to provide mental health support for frontline workers and activists. The singer has partnered with the Movement Voter Fund to provide funding to ten organisations for resources to help with their workers’ mental wellbeing. As Billboard report, Cabello provided the seed money for the venture, and the first round of ten grants will total nearly $250,000 (£180,000). The ten organisations chosen will receive grants to provide six months of mental healthcare for their key workers. Cabello’s work in the field of racial and social justice comes after racist Tumblr posts she made as a teenager resurfaced at the end of 2019. Between 2012 and 2013, Cabello shared a series of racist posts on her Tumblr account, including racist jokes and imagery. In a lengthy apology posted to Twitter at the time, Cabello admitted her messages were “horrible and hurtful,” adding: “When I was younger, I used language I was deeply ashamed of and will regret forever. “I was uneducated and ignorant and once I became aware of the history and the weight and the true meaning behind this horrible and hurtful language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it.…
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