Tega Oghenechovwen contemplates the ways in which acute childhood trauma can infect and compromise relationships later in life.
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It Comes in Waves
Years after her cousin was killed, Lilly Dancyger is haunted by images of murdered women in the news.
Posted inHighlight, Science & Nature
The Terror of Being Awake
“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.’”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Elegy in Times Square
A personal essay in which Lily Burana, a former teenage peep show girl, looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Elegy in Times Square
A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Elegy in Times Square
A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘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.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses
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?
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
‘Do you like scary movies?’
We voluntarily watch horror movies, despite the very real fight-or-flight physical reactions they provoke. Why?
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
‘As a Grown Woman, I Still Have To Continuously Learn To Say No’
Memoirist Tanya Marquardt talks about consent, trauma, and investigating our memories in the age of #MeToo.