#melody moezzi

[aloofshahbanou]

from Melody Moezzi’s Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life

[crookedreads]

I was embarrassed by my perceived spiritual weakness, my sickness of the soul, my diseased moral character.

Melody Moezzi, Haldol and Hyacinths, 2013

[brownbookrecs]

Do you have any books that feel like the musical Next to Normal?

Full honesty: I haven't seen Next to Normal and don't plan on it. What I've done in the past for asks like this is look for books about the topic and choose a few that I would read or at least would check out from the library with the intent to read. So here are some diverse voices writing about or with bipolar.

The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by Sonora Reyes

From bestselling author Sonora Reyes comes a poignant and searingly honest companion novel to the multi-award-winning The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, following beloved character Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count.

Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life by Melody Moezzi

With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.

Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith by Monica A. Coleman

Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder.

Anyone who has seen Next to Normal have any recommendations for anon? Please comment!

[crookedreads]

Hello, beautiful book mail. 

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[awolfinmycity]

My reasoning for never fully considering the importance of mosques has generally been as follows: if God is as close to you as your jugular vein, as the Qur'an clearly states (50:16), then why should we bother building tangible homes for God when we could be building them for the homeless? Surely, they are in greater need of homes than God is, and we would serve Him better by building homes for needy humans than by building them for the omniscient, omnipresent, and incorporeal Almighty.

Melody Moezzi, "War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims"

[awolfinmycity]

The most I've learned to expect from those in the majority is tolerance, and I've never been too overjoyed at the prospect of having to be merely /tolerated/.

Melody Moezzi, War on Error: Real Stories of Muslim Americans