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Incredible Raven: Saunders lends her voice to the Olympics - Associated Press
Aug 01, 2021 1 min, 15 secs

During the photo op at her medals ceremony Sunday night, Saunders stepped off the podium, lifted her arms above her head and formed an “X’ with her wrists.

A meaningful gesture for Saunders, who is openly gay, has contemplated suicide, has seen poverty and depression ravage her Black community and others like it.

The Hulk mask that Saunders started wearing not so long ago has its roots in many things.

Even though she had already been to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and was in the midst of a career on an upward track, Saunders said in an Instagram post that on Jan.

“I feel like the atmosphere around a lot of things, especially when you’re doing so well, is ‘Well, you have everything going for you so you don’t have anything to worry about,’” Saunders said.

“The crazy house,” is what she said some homes were called in the Black community where the symptoms were seen but not checked.

“It’s OK to need people, and I feel like in our community, a lot of times through history, we haven’t had access to the resources to be able to do that,” she said.

Mental health has been the prime topic of the Olympics, and along with her spot on the podium, Saunders seems more than ready to stake her claim in the heart of this conversation

“Shout out to all my Black people, shout out to all my LBGTQ community, shout out to everybody dealing with mental health

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