Comparing two different PTSD worlds: the time traveling horror show of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and the multiversal healing of Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds. Continue reading The Space between Books: Kurt Vonnegut, Meet Micaiah Johnson
This week, we explore the second third of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five to discuss the impact of trauma on generosity, kindness, and mutuality in relationships. Continue reading Slaughterhouse-Five, Part 2: The Tyranny of Generosity
In PTSD as in Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, you enter “trauma time.” It turns out time travel is more stressful than you might think. Continue reading Slaughterhouse-Five, Part 1: Trauma Time*
A bit about communication norms in PTSD Bookclub discussions. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub – Grounding agreements
Here’s where you’ll find the list of books we’ll be reading in PTSD Bookclub. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub – The books
A little bit about my experience and an introduction to this month’s reading: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub – My Story and Slaughterhouse-Five
How do we describe, as Lillian Smith herself asked in Killers of the Dream, “trouble…so big that people turn away from its size, [their] imaginations closed tight against the hurt of others”? And how do we do it all while grounding our readers in the radical possibility of hope, reconciliation, and healing? Continue reading Lillian Smith Book Award address
An effort to create a code of ethics for data science was recently announced at the Data for Good Exchange. The stories I tell in Automating Inequality may offer some insight. Continue reading A Hippocratic Oath for Data Science
February 16, 2018 On February 9, I learned that Allegheny County Department of Human Services had responded with concern to the excerpt from Automating Inequality that was published in Wired magazine on January 15, 2018, calling key aspects of the piece inaccurate. Below is a response to their unsigned statement, released by the office of … Continue reading A response to Allegheny County DHS
In the course of writing Automating Inequality, I’ve come to realize that how I talk about class in America can be counterintuitive for some readers. I thought it would be useful to start a conversation about class here before the book drops January 16. This might take a couple of posts…so let’s start with what seems … Continue reading Notes on Class in America, Part 1
