Vargas, 28, told BuzzFeed News that she wanted to give people of colour living with mental illness a space to share their stories.

She wanted to create a resource where people of colour could go to for hope and a sense of community, she said, and hopes that her project will provide a starting point for people of colour to have discussions about mental illness and mental health.

"Mental health awareness is extremely personal and important to me, because I identify as a person of colour and I live with depression and anxiety," she said. "[This project] is a response to the exclusion of people of colour in the media's representation of mental illness."