Healing from ambient trauma will require destroying the ideologies and systems that engender harm and in their place cultivating more just and caring ways of living. CW: discussion of trauma in the general & abstract form (i.e. no specific details), with occasional reference to specific environmental disasters and general events By Jonathan Fisk Nobody is...
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My Tattoos Help Me Cope With Misogynoir And Remind Me I Am Worthy
My tattoos do not change the systems at hand, but they do announce to myself and others that I exist in multitudes and no one can take that away from me. By Amari Gaiter If I could travel back in time and tell a younger me that I have tattoos, my child self would be...
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Healing Is Not Linear And Sometimes That’s Not Comforting
Healing is a messy journey, and journeys—sometimes long and unbearable—do always lead to a destination. My favorite album by Beyoncé is Lemonade. A Black Southern gothic masterpiece, the album is an ode to Black women who experience heartbreak, who mourn, who explore, and who heal and grow in Love. A Love story; not only to...
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month: A Wear Your Voice Reading List
Wear Your Voice curated a list of the many pieces we published over the past few years which are fitting reads for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Content Note: discussions of sexual violence, including r/pe, abuse of minors, coercion, and stealthing Survivors of sexual violence need space to be able to talk about and work through...
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Diane Nguyen’s Weight Gain Is Part Of Her Healing
What a key message for all of us to hear. Weight gain is not inherently a sign of sickness, and can in fact be part of our healing. This essay discusses eating disorders and fatphobia, and contains spoilers for season six of BoJack Horseman By Gloria Oladipo Oh, BoJack Horseman—how much will I miss you!...
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Radically Accepting Myself According to Chani Nicholas
Chani Nicholas takes her empowering words of affirmation to the next level, arming us with the knowledge we need to embody the best versions of ourselves. It didn’t take me long to smash that pre-order button when beloved online astrologer Chani Nicholas announced her first book, You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self...
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‘Frozen 2’ is a Lesson on Trauma and Self-Love
Elsa’s arc in Frozen 2 is a beautiful and moving depiction of a trauma survivor finally embracing herself for who she is. This essay contains spoilers for Frozen and Frozen 2 By Roslyn Talusan I walked out of the theatre after Frozen 2 with tears streaming down my face, stunned and breathless at its emotional...
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I Hate Christmas and I Don’t Want You to Change My Mind
I don’t want to pretend that I like Christmas. I don’t want to pretend to enjoy my family’s company. I want to be alone and that is perfectly acceptable. TW/CW Mentions of death and depression. By Adrie Rose I fucking hate Christmas. That’s probably too blunt but I’m not sorry because every time I try...
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How BoJack Horseman (and Men) Heal From Trauma At The Expense of Others
BoJack could easily be replaced with a number of men who are continually allowed to be violent as a mechanism for “healing” regardless of who they hurt. TW/CW: This essay contains discussions of drug and alcohol addiction By Gloria Oladipo The T.V. show, BoJack Horseman, is the slapstick, anthropomorphism version of how trauma and mental...
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The Ritual of Taking Nude Photos For Myself Helped Me Reclaim My Body
Taking nude photos of myself gave me a sense of empowerment in reclaiming my body for myself only, shifting the power from my rapists back to me. By Chaney Williams This essay contains discussions of sexual assault and emotional abuse and mentions r/pe My relationship with taking nude photos has gone from being laced with...