Monday Matter: Magical dinners, secret prisons and a red carrot
Your weekly Foreign Bodies roundup
Every Monday, we send subscribers and gift recipients of immigrant mental health and storytelling newsletter Foreign Bodies stories we recently inhaled and adored. This is also a chance to do some housekeeping and give shout-outs and all that jazz. Roundups are usually written by Fiza and edited by Farah.
First things first
A little housekeeping
Grateful for you!
Happy post-Thanksgiving to you all! Whether you celebrate or not, I hope you know how grateful I am for this little community and especially for the readers who share recommendations and engage over email about stories from the newsletter that really resonated with them. Thank you <3
A musical start to your Mondays 🎧
One song to groove to, cry to, drive to or share
This week’s pick is Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru, the Kiswahili word for freedom. Black Uhuru, which originally featured Garth Dennis, Don Carlos, and Derrick “Duckie” Simpson in 1974, was the first group to win a Grammy in the reggae category when it was first introduced in 1985, according to last.fm. It’s since undergone several lineup changes.
Resource(s) of the week
Something helpful and interesting and cool (*storytelling opportunity)
Undocu-Immigrant Mental Health Grounding & Self-Care Toolkit: From Immigrants Rising, this is a mini journal filled with practical ways to decrease stress and anxiety in any situation.
*To Write Love On Her Arms, a mental health non-profit movement, is looking for submissions related to depression, addiction, self-injury, eating disorders, PTSD, trauma, bipolar disorder, anxiety, suicidal ideation, or any other mental health challenge for its online blog. Send non-PDF drafts to blog@twloha.com. This is an unpaid opportunity.
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