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Issues

We got issues. Read 'em!

Our funded issues, linked here.

Fiza Pirani
Dec 31, 2020
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Foreign Bodies is a mental well-being newsletter for immigrants and refugees with a mission to de-stigmatize vulnerability through storytelling. Our issues are free for the public and fully funded by paying subscribers. We need your support to do this.

Issue 19: I'm not always attached to living, but hear me out.

On suicidal ideation, thoughts of suicide

Issue 18: We can all break the cycle of shame and trauma

On intergenerational trauma, embracing queerness

Issue 17: What can I say that hasn't been said?

On passing the mic to Black immigrants, being an effective, anti-racist ally

Issue 16: Why am I so afraid of medication?

On pill shaming and my personal experience with antidepressants

Issue 15: Undocumented, disabled and hung out to dry. Still, we rise.

On being a blind, undocumented Latina—and how the public charge rule hurts disabled immigrants

Issue 14: My parents don't believe I'm depressed. Now what?

On how to refocus on your own healing when you feel dismissed

Issue 13: Are you possessed by demons or are you actually sick?

When we mistake mental illness for jinn, espíritu and other nonhuman beings

Issue 12: Upper lip, too?

On hairless beauty standards, PCOS in Indian womxn and the mental health connection

Issue 11: I can't just pray my disorder away.

When you're living with a mental illness, what role does faith play?

Issue 10: Climate change is coming for our homelands.

On climate anxiety and the aching desire to protect the lands we remember

Issue 09: My job was killing me, so I quit. Should I feel guilty?

On immigrant survivor's guilt and the privilege of risk-taking

Issue 08: What if no place feels like home?

The influence of one's sense of belonging on mental well-being

Issue 07: Please stop asking about my weight.

On body shaming, internalized dysmorphia and cultural stigmas associated with weight

Issue 06: Dad, what does it mean to be a good man?

On masculinity in some immigrant communities

Issue 05: Her sister has autism. Here's what she wants you to know

The stigma of autism in one South Asian community

Issue 04: Salaam, brother.

On internalizing global tragedy

Issue 03: Excuse my French, but...

On escaping accent prejudice

Issue 02: The f*$%-ing model minority myth

How the myth and its racist roots affect immigrant mental health

Issue 01: It's not just the winter blues

One immigrant's struggle with seasonal depression

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