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In Her Defence

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 19, 2022December 15, 2022

“After suffering decades of abuse, Helen Naslund was sentenced for killing her husband on their Alberta farm.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Only One of Their Children Survived Sandy Hook. Now School Posed a New Threat: The Virus.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 7, 2020October 19, 2022

“After losing their 6-year-old daughter in a mass shooting, can Isaiah Marquez-Greene’s parents bear to let him return to high school during a pandemic?”

Posted inNonfiction

If My Scars Could Talk

by Tega Oghenechovwen January 2, 2020December 30, 2022

Tega Oghenechovwen contemplates the ways in which acute childhood trauma can infect and compromise relationships later in life.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I Really Hope a Lot of Men Read It’: Sohaila Abdulali on How We Talk About Rape

by Laura Barcella November 27, 2018October 19, 2022

Sohaila Abdulali wants us to pay attention to what we’ve been missing when we talk about rape, meaning everything from how we fail to address rape as a global crisis to how survivors experience PTSD at the dentist.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery

by Sari Botton November 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Chardon, Ohio

by Sari Botton November 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Six years after a mass shooting at the local High School, Libby Copeland visits with survivors and observes various ways they live and cope with lasting trauma.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure

by Sari Botton April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Breaking the Ruhls author, Larry Ruhl, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure

by Larry Ruhl April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure

by Larry Ruhl April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.

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