Tomorrow: Join us for a discussion on love, loneliness and belonging
How do we nurture love and connection to survive troubled times?
I first started this newsletter to accompany my book, Love Across Borders, which explores the ways that immigration systems explore our most intimate relationships. If you like this newsletter, you’d love the book—please consider purchasing in a way that supports an indie bookstore, too.
What is loneliness? It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately—a loneliness epidemic in so many Western countries, a loss of community life and values and the way that it’s shaping that we all relate to one another—but it wasn’t until I came across
’s book: Beyond Ethnic Loneliness that I found another person who was trying to define exactly what I spent so much of Love Across Borders trying to define, this feeling of the way that immigration changes you, the way it changes a relationship, and the eternal question of whether our relationships can survive the ways that the world is changing and shaping us, which—as many of us know, is not always our choice.I had the pleasure of meeting Prasanta the other day at one of
’s online workshops the other day (abundantly useful for any creatives out there who may be reading this) and we’re going to join forces together to bring you our very first Substack LIVE—tomorrow, Sunday 27 April, 7 PM for those joining us from the UK, 2 PM EST, and 11 AM PST.We’re going to discuss how this idea of ethnic loneliness applies to the present moment—when so many of us who are or love immigrants are living in a horror show—the ways in which love and connection can help us move through the present moment and anything else that any one who joins us would like to discuss, so by all means please join us if you can. If you have any technical issues, please reach out and I’ll make sure you’re set up.
If you can’t join us live, I invite you to check out Prasanta’s book, here.
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