(co-written by myself and trauma psychologist Calle Brunell) is available to be downloaded (free). Together with LGBTQ Newcomers (asylum-seekers, undocumented, refugees, and newly arrived LGBTQ people) peer-to-peer group leaders, we piloted a mental health project and created this manual for those interested in providing mental health support to this population.
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The Miraculous Journey of Breaking the Silence is a series of original queer creation myths conceived and performed by RFSL Stockholm Newcomers. These myths will explore the stories of magical beings who have crossed, erased, and still live in borderlands–the cost of breaking the silence to be their true selves. These journeys through borders travel between physical and spiritual worlds, nations, genders, sexualities, realities, bodies, and planets.
(pictured right: Black Heyoka Engkantada, performed by Edxie Betts, member of Living Mythologies, discussed in Chapter 2 of the manuscript.)