“After suffering decades of abuse, Helen Naslund was sentenced for killing her husband on their Alberta farm.”
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Only One of Their Children Survived Sandy Hook. Now School Posed a New Threat: The Virus.
“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?”
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If My Scars Could Talk
Tega Oghenechovwen contemplates the ways in which acute childhood trauma can infect and compromise relationships later in life.
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‘I Really Hope a Lot of Men Read It’: Sohaila Abdulali on How We Talk About Rape
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.
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For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery
Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
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Chardon, Ohio
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.
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Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure
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.
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Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure
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
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.