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The Icarus Project (now named the Fireweed Collective) is founded.

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The Icarus Project is founded as a wellness-centered, national grassroots organization for people who struggle with their mental health. The project aims to provide people with the tools to navigate their mental health outside of the conventional framework of illness and diagnosis by offering workshops and support groups. They will close in 2019 after their work is critiqued for privileging white, middle-class people.

They will then re-emerge as the Firewood Collective, which focuses on providing mental health education to: "disabled people, black folks, people of color, immigrants, queer and trans working at the intersections of mental health, healing justice and social justice. The Fireweed Collective offers a crisis toolkit, webinars, workshops, and support groups geared towards people who are impacted by racial, disability, and economic injustice" (Fireweed Collective, n.d.).