Monday Matter: Kesar mangoes, Mandarin and women on the brink
Your weekly Foreign Bodies roundup
Every Monday, I send subscribers and gift recipients of immigrant mental health and storytelling newsletter Foreign Bodies stories I recently inhaled and adored. This is also a chance to do some housekeeping and give shout-outs and all that jazz.
First things first
A little housekeeping
A heavy week
Good Monday morning, Foreign Bodies readers. I’m sitting at my neighborhood coffeeshop working on this newsletter and my dad just popped by with some mangoes— a bright spot during an otherwise heavy week for American women and anyone whose reproductive rights are constantly being challenged. I know how defeating it can be to feel helpless; this thread/document on how to show up for abortion access is a great starting place for the restless. I’m thinking of you, of us, and also of anyone with mother wounds post-holiday weekend. A few things, people, moments I’m holding onto:
Kesar mangoes
the blueberry pound cake from Evergreen Butcher + Baker
meeting Twitter friends IRL
the final scene of The Sopranos :’)
the sound of kids’ singing in Monday morning music class, which I can hear from my backyard
crushes
FaceTiming my grandparents
neighborly kindness
the way the sunlight hits at 7 p.m. in May
A musical start to your Mondays 🎧
One song to groove to, cry to, drive to and share
This week’s pick, recommended by reader Janet W., is “Choi Voi” by Vietnamese music producer K-ICM and singer Trung Quân. The song is currently at the top of Billboard Vietnam’s charts.
Resource(s) of the week
Something helpful and interesting and cool (*storytelling opportunity)
Microaggressions: How and why do they impact health? In this Medical News Today resource, you’ll find a brief history of the term microaggression and the ways both overt and implicit forms of microaggressions negatively impact the health of those on the receiving end.
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