#1: COVID-19, advisories and trauma with investigative reporter Rachel Dissell

07/19/20 • 24 min

In the first episode of Minor Feelings, we explore trauma in a world of advisories, orders, and guidelines in the time of COVID-19. Investigative reporter Rachel Dissell joins the podcast to talk about how people cope, move forward and make sense of the new world unraveling around them.
This episode was produced by Divya Karthikeyan, responses edited for clarity by Febin Mathew, and music by Blue Dot Sessions.

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#2 : "What’s the constitutional procedure to deal with not-normals?" with NY politician Lindsey Boylan

In the second episode of Minor Feelings, we spoke to New York Democrat politician Lindsey Boylan. Boylan ran for Congress in the NY Democratic primary in June 2020 from the 10th district. She’s been particularly frank about her tumultuous and difficult childhood, her ability and foresight to seek therapy early on, and dealing with postpartum depression after the birth of her first child. She was previously Deputy Secretary of Economic Development to Governor Andrew Cuomo, and we talk about the discourse around mental illness in political spheres, and what it does to your mental health to project everlasting perfection as a politician.