Personal Essays
How Fiza Pirani Would Fix Atlanta (HIFA Zine)
The Stigma Of Moving Back In With Your Parents Is So Uniquely American (Romper)
Why I finally faced my fear and taught myself to swim during the pandemic (The Guardian)
It Took Me 18 Years to Embrace My Name (ZORA)
Chanel Miller Reminds Us That to Heal, We Must Forage (Electric Literature)
My Fair Lady (Expert by Experience)
How Telling My Immigrant Parents I Contemplated Suicide May Have Saved My Life (Teen Vogue)
My Job Was Killing Me, So I Quit. Should I Feel Guilty? (ZORA)
Reporting
South Asian voter group splits with parent PAC to form Desis For Democracy (285 South)
Long Story Short, They Survived (Georgia Tech Magazine)
Mayor Andre Dickens: A Legacy Unfolding (Georgia Tech Magazine)
From Reckoning to Reconciliation (Emory Magazine)
What Other States Can Learn from Georgia’s Historic Elections (YES! Magazine)
How to Help Grieving Loved Ones in a Pandemic (Elemental)
Three Women Discuss Relearning Their Native Languages During the Pandemic (Colorlines)
Don’t Leave Black Immigrant Femmes Out of the Mental Health Conversation (Colorlines)
For Parents and Students With Limited English, Virtual Learning Presents Numerous Hurdles (Colorlines)
How To Advocate For Change In A Republican Suburb (Bustle)
The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful: Moving Back Home During the Pandemic (Colorlines)
An unfinished movement: Reflecting on 100 years of women’s suffrage in Georgia (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, print and digital)
How metro Atlantans are dealing with Mother’s Day as pandemic splits families (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, print and digital)
How Climate Change Is Erasing the Past (Gizmodo/EARTHER)
When love isn’t enough: A daughter’s suicide leaves a grieving father searching for answers (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, print and digital)
Remembering Camille O’Brien, Emory nurse who served in World War I (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, print and digital)
Billie Holiday: The unforgettable Lady Day (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, print and digital)
Other
Betterpet: Pet health and wellness
AJC Pulse Magazine: Health publication for medical professionals in metro Atlanta
Foreign Bodies
A newsletter centering immigrant and refugee experiences with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness through storytelling
I'm not always attached to living, but hear me out: On living with passive suicidal ideation
We can all break the cycle of shame and trauma: On intergenerational trauma and embracing queerness
Undocumented, disabled and hung out to dry. Still, we rise.
My parents don't believe I'm depressed. Now what?
Are you possessed by demons or are you actually sick?
Upper lip, too? On hairless beauty standards and PCOS in Indian womxn
I can’t just pray my disorder away. What role does faith play when we have a mental illness?
Climate change is coming for our homelands. How do we save our cultures from dying?
fiza’s word vomit
A candid newsletter: my brain on writing and reading and the beautiful mess of word work
More news and explainers
Teens who can describe negative emotions are better protected against depression (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Pollution linked to increase in depression and bipolar disorder, massive study suggests (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Nearly 1-in-5 Americans would deny Muslim American citizens the right to vote, new report finds (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
What is suicide contagion and what can be done to prevent it? (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Sexual harassment in the workplace: What is it, how to report it and more you should know (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)