trauma

Part searingly honest memoir, part incisive cultural criticism, Mercy explores the appeal of true crime and the way so many of us live our whole lives bracing for an attack. Read...

Maybe it’s my own fault. I apologized to him for pushing his buttons. Read...

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family’s cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of the 1970s and 1980s New York City. Read...

rauma shuffles, scrambles, and pulverizes story. Trauma dislocates, dislodges, and decimates voice. I think trauma also makes story and voice possible . . . eventually. Read...

Ravishly is thrilled to offer a peek at Joanna Valente's forthcoming book #Survivor. Read...

Loss was a language I’d learned early but had no way to speak it out of me. Read...

As written by a grown-up foster kid. Read...

It’s not just that I’m “not a morning person.” Mornings hurt and I experience complex trauma. They make me feel fragile and vulnerable.

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