You Can’t Tetris Your Way Out of Trauma
Two poems by Laura Villareal
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If Everyone Is Traumatized, Is Anyone?
In defense of the trauma plot as executed by "The X Files"
Mar 16 2022 - Sadie Graham
Trauma Doesn’t Follow a Linear Narrative
In Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel "Savage Tongues," a woman confronts the pain of her teenage affair with an older man
Aug 6 2021 - Jacqueline Alnes
Trauma Has Forced Me to Become a Powerful Witch
Elissa Washuta's "White Magic" confronts personal pain and the legacy of colonialism through tarot, pop culture, and magic
May 7 2021 - Deirdre Coyle
How the Trauma of Racial Violence Stays in a Family for Generations
Cassandra Lane's memoir "We Are Bridges" explores the legacy of lynching and why we can't simply let go of the past
Apr 29 2021 - Debra Monroe
War Is a Trauma That Follows Us from Home to Home
Hala Alyan on intergenerational trauma, the Palestinian diaspora, and the Lebanese revolution in “The Arsonist’s City”
Mar 5 2021 - Jacqueline Alnes
Processing Trauma By Giving It a Name
Sarah Kasbeer on reckoning with the aftermath of her assault in her book "A Woman, A Plan, An Outline of a Man"
Nov 23 2020 - Jacqueline Alnes
Following Black Generational Trauma Across the Country
In "Wandering in Strange Lands," Morgan Jerkins investigates her roots
Aug 11 2020 - Jennifer Baker
“The Snare” Captures How Women Internalize Trauma
In Elizabeth Spencer’s 1972 novel, the past is present
May 5 2020 - Caroline McCoy
How Do You Translate Intergenerational Trauma?
E. J. Koh on living while excavating the troubled past and writing difficult love letters
