[Trigger warning: Shunning, social violence, F-bombs abounding] I have been crying a great deal these days here in PTSD-land. My therapist warned me that once I started feeling all the pain in my body, the grief would not be far…
Read MoreI’ve been giving some thought to the work “broken†as applied to the human body. For years, I’ve reacted against the word. I’ve seen it as an implied comparison with “normal,†as a judgment, and as a form of devaluation.…
Read MoreFor the past 11 years, I have been shunned. Not socially rejected. Shunned. By what used to be my synagogue community. For falling in love with my partner. For my partner falling in love with me. He was serving as…
Read More[Trigger warnings for sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, shunning, shame.] Shame is not something that most of us want to hear about. Many of us will listen to stories of any other kind of horror: sexual abuse, physical assault,…
Read MoreOne of the ways in which I navigate the cacaphony of competing discourses about disability, mental health, and just about everything else is to remind myself that we humans are always storytelling and that these discourses are just a series…
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