Monday Matter: Namaste Plaza, toxic positivity and boundaries
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
Turned 30 last week 🎂
Good morning, Foreign Bodies readers! I hope you’ve been finding pockets of joy here and there, even on the most seemingly impossible of days. Last Thursday, I celebrated 30 years on the planet with some of my favorite people and got to thinking about how much I used to hate my birthday. I’m curious: how do you feel about your own birthday? Are you the kind of person who quietly waits for the day to come and go, or do you love planning out a full week of celebrations? I’ll pose the question on the forum later this week, too.
A musical start to your Mondays 🎧
One international song to groove to, cry to, drive to and share
This week’s pick is the late Chinese composer Sinn Song Hoi, prominently known as Xian Xinghai. The above video pays tribute to his 1939 epic, Yellow River Cantata, which, according to LA Weekly, was written as a protest against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.
Resource(s) of the week
Something helpful and interesting and cool (*storytelling opportunity)
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