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1 Introduction Many young people struggle with their mental health and well-being, and, for example, one in three have elevated depression symptoms at any point in time [1]. Furthermore, depression symptoms become increasingly prevalent over the course of adolescence; globally, by age 18, 1 in 10 young people will have had clinical depression [2, 3]. Specifically in the United Kingdom, around a third of adolescents have elevated depression symptoms [4, 5].
Editor’s Note: From the AJO Archives revisits past artists’ projects, conversations, interviews, and scholarly essays as part of our editorial work to place contemporary art practice in conversation with our archives.
Patricia A. Banks is a scholar who thinks deeply about what motivates people to participate in cultural life. Her most recent book, Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums: Black Renaissance, weaves together interviews, participant observation, and archival research to ask what drives individuals to support the more than three hundred different African American museums around the United States.
The following is a lightly edited excerpt from Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, edited by Breanne Fahs, published today by Verso Books. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
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