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Issue 19: I'm not always attached to living, but hear me out.
On my experience with suicidal ideation
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Fiza Pirani
Issue 18: We can all break the cycle of shame and trauma
On overcoming intergenerational trauma, embracing queerness and learning to be our whole selves
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December 2020

We got issues. Read 'em!
Our funded issues, linked here.
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Fiza Pirani

June 2020

Issue 17: What can I say that hasn't been said?
Passing the mic to Black immigrants, finding humility in anti-racist work and learning to be a healthy, effective ally
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Fiza Pirani
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April 2020

Issue 16: Why am I so afraid of medication?
On pill shaming, one author's dream for happier stories and my personal experience with antidepressants
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Fiza Pirani
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March 2020

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
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Fiza Pirani
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January 2020

Issue 14: My parents don't believe I'm depressed. Now what?
How to refocus on your own healing when you feel dismissed
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December 2019

Issue 13: Are you possessed by demons or are you actually sick?
When we mistake mental illness for jinn, espíritu and other nonhuman beings
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November 2019

Issue 12: Upper lip, too?
On hairless beauty standards, PCOS in Indian womxn and the mental health connection
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Fiza Pirani

October 2019

Issue 11: I can't just pray my disorder away.
When you're living with a mental illness, what role does faith play?
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Fiza Pirani

September 2019

Issue 10: Climate change is coming for our homelands.
How do we save our pasts?
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Fiza Pirani

August 2019

Issue 09: My job was killing me, so I quit. Should I feel guilty?
On immigrant survivor's guilt
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Fiza Pirani
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