Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma
On the Fourth of July, we explore “explosive” and “erosive” trauma through the writing of Maggie O’Farrell and Bat Barker. Continue reading Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma
Category: working justice
Regeneration, Part 2: Non-traums
An exploration of the first third of Pat Barker’s anti-war classic, Regeneration, which discusses the relationship between traumatized and non-traumatized people and the “just-world fallacy.” Continue reading Regeneration, Part 2: Non-traums
PTSD Bookclub – Grounding agreements
A bit about communication norms in PTSD Bookclub discussions. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub – Grounding agreements
PTSD Bookclub – The books
Here’s where you’ll find the list of books we’ll be reading in PTSD Bookclub. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub – The books
PTSD Bookclub – My Story and Slaughterhouse-Five
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
Lillian Smith Book Award address
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
Notes on Class in America, Part 1
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
Disasters on top of disasters
With rain still falling on southeast Texas, I read Rick Jervis’ profoundly moving August 27 story in USA Today. In it, Jervis explains how the impacts of Hurricane Harvey have been compounded for many poor and working-class communities by a more mundane disaster: it’s the end of the month. The elderly, the ill, the disabled, the … Continue reading Disasters on top of disasters
Poor People’s Campaign reading and action list
On March 31, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his last Sunday sermon, “Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution,” in the National Cathedral. In it, he announced the Poor People’s Campaign, which he warned was America’s “last chance” to arouse its “conscience toward constructive democratic change.” King’s assassination, just days later, threw the campaign … Continue reading Poor People’s Campaign reading and action list
Cuomo Criminalizes the Mentally Ill
While I am encouraged by attempts to stem the tide of the epidemic of gun violence in America, and welcome a vigorous conversation about how to support and provide resources for people struggling with mental illness in this country, I am horrified to near-speechlessness by the mental health provisions of the recent gun control legislation … Continue reading Cuomo Criminalizes the Mentally Ill
Virginia Eubanks 