May Monthly Learnings

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 

BOOKS	Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner	Pachinko – Min Jin Lee	All You Can Ever Know – Nicole Chung	Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare – Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
MOVIES	The Wedding Banquet (1993)	The Slanted Screen (2006)	The Farwell (2019)	I Was a Simple Man (2021)
PODCASTS	Inheriting	Asian Enough	They Call Us Bruce	Legends from the Pacific

Haitian Heritage Month

BOOKS	Everything Inside – Edwidge Danticat	Ayiti – Roxane Gay	The Garden of Broken Things – Francesca Momplaisir	Mouths Don’t Speak – Katia D. Ulysse
MOVIES	Barikad (2002)	I Love You Anne (2003)	Toussaint Louverture (2012)	Freda (2021)
PODCASTS	Haitian Millennial Podcast	Growing Up Krenglish	Neg Mawon Podcast	Creole Narratives

Jewish American Heritage Month

BOOKS	The Color of Water – James McBride	Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer	Beyond the Pale – Elana Dykewomon	What the Night Sings – Vesper Stamper
MOVIES	Fiddler on the Roof (1971)	Shiva Baby (2020)	You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)	A Real Pain (2025)
PODCASTS	Chutzpod!	Can We Talk? (Jewish Women's Archive)	Jew Oughta Know	The History of Jews in the American South

Mental Health Awareness Month

BOOKS	What Happened To You? – Bruce D. Perry	Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb	What My Bones Know – Stephanie Foo	Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times  - Katherine May
MOVIES	A Beautiful Mind (2001)	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	Infinitely Polar Bear (2015)	To the Bone (2017)
PODCASTS	Naming It	Latinx Therapy	The Mental Illness Happy Hour	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos