Posts Tagged: childhood trauma

From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit

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I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.

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ENOUGH: Witch That She Is

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Screaming at Ghosts

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Letting Myself Breathe

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: A Heat That Demands Attention

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Loud as Clouds

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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Apples, Sonnet Crowns, and Other Containers of Trauma: Talking with Jeri Frederickson

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Jeri Frederickson discusses her debut collection, YOU ARE NOT LOST.

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Life as a Series of Small Gestures: Talking with Jennifer Fliss

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Jennifer Fliss discusses her debut story collection, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL.

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Turning the Lights On

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I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.

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ENOUGH: Revenge and Other Fantasies

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour

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To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.

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ENOUGH: The Boogeyman

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Sorry I’m Fine No Thank You

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Doors

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: How the President Broke Up My Marriage

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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Before

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The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.

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ENOUGH: A Constant Undoing

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Some Would Call It Rape

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore

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Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.

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Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour

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To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.

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ENOUGH: White Lab Coat, No Face

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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ENOUGH: Harry Styles Saves Me from Transphobia (A Wattpad Dialectic)

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Women, trans, and nonbinary writers share work on rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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