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Sep 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Why am I sad all the time?
A thread about the ways minority stress affects us and how we can fight it
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Minority stress refers to a variety of physical and mental disorders that political minorities experience.
It was first noticed and studied in American Black and LGBTQIA+ communities
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Sep 10, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Thread of ridiculous things my Syrian Christian loved ones have done:
I love my family but we need to claim our role as a Brahmin-adjacent political group
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My grandfather has told me about a lower caste family that worked on his farmland.
He said that even after the son of that family got a good job, he would address my grandfather respectfully with a word that means 'Lord' in Malayalam.
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