Dangerous Stories: Narratives of Domestic Violence and their Painful Limitations
We tell a story about domestic violence in our culture. Each time we tell it, we give it more life, build with it a reality, until we cannot imagine a version of intimate partner violence outside of it. The story goes like this: a heterosexual cisgender woman is in a...
Dreaming Stories of Liberation: A COVID Interview with Walter
This blog post is part of a series of posts on trans survivors’ experiences of the pandemic. Walter (he/him) is a white, transmasculine survivor and theatre artist who lives in Saint Paul, MN. Please describe your context and how you’ve coped with the pandemic. ...
The Weight of Shame and How it Moves Us
Defining Shame A possibly shameful confession: I chose to write a blog post about shame because I wanted to understand it and have an excuse to explore it fully. Like a distant lover, I know it well but don’t feel like I understand it at all. Yet when I searched for...
Starting Over and Meditating Amidst Triggers: A Pandemic Trans Survivor Interview
This blog post is part of a series of posts on trans survivors’ experiences of the pandemic. Ruby (she/they) is an agender survivor with a penchant for dissociation and playing music. They used to be a writer, and work with homeless adults in the U.S. Please describe...Find us on Facebook!
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