Tag: trauma

“Fear coursed through my veins. A horrible metallic taste, worse than bile, rose in my throat. The taste of terror.”

Blake Butler writes movingly about his late wife, poet Molly Brodak.

A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist.

Emily Gould reconsiders the likelihood of women’s first-person writing bringing about change.

You can understand how the dura mater connects to the arachnoid mater, but that doesn’t mean you understand the mind.

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

Years after her cousin was killed, Lilly Dancyger is haunted by images of murdered women in the news.

“I thought, ‘This is it, this is how I’m going to die, right here on the table, and my family will never know what my last few hours were like because no one’s even noticing what’s going on.’”

A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.

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.

Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?

We voluntarily watch horror movies, despite the very real fight-or-flight physical reactions they provoke. Why?

Memoirist Tanya Marquardt talks about consent, trauma, and investigating our memories in the age of #MeToo.

The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?

Growing up, Niya Marie sought refuge in Whitney Houston’s ethereal notes; as an adult, Marie found recognition in her silences.

In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.

The aftermath of trauma sometimes means that victims become victimizers, but we have to find a way to talk about it.

Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.

Surviving sexual assualt in a world content to let women disappear.

After a spate of trauma and loss, Maura Kelly retreats to the Hudson Valley where she is converted into a ‘nature person.’

While teaching English to communist party officials in post-war Laos, Kathryn Kefauver Goldberg reflects on silence and the legacy of trauma.

T Kira Madden tells the story of her rape, confusion, and redemption to show us what rape culture really looks like in this country.

I had come to his house, in this sunny spot between Ben Gurion Airport and the Mediterranean coast, for an unlikely reason: not long ago, after decades of unwavering silence, Sigmund Schiller spoke about his Holocaust experience. “People talk about ‘Sophie’s Choice’ as if it were a rare event,” he said. “It wasn’t. Everybody had […]

Scientists are trying to uncover why some people are better able to recover from trauma than others: After Ebaugh crawled up the rocky riverbank, a truck driver picked her up, took her to a nearby convenience store and bought her a cup of hot tea. Police, when they arrived, were sympathetic and patient. The doctor […]