All posts tagged "Trauma"
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Trauma and Infinities: How Math Sharpened My Feminism
By Jamie Zabinsky On one of my 90-minute train commutes this summer, I came across a post in my beloved ‘weird Facebook’ group that pulled...
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“It Takes A Village”: Afterword to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
There aren’t any words that will articulate the depth of my deep gratitude and love for each of the twenty-nine individual #LoveWITHAccountability forum contributors who...
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A Network of Care
Networks of care for our children, and for the adults who have survived means creating community-based responses to violence. Responses which do not engage in...
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Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
What we know is that child sexual abuse is an epidemic. It is traumatic. Surviving it increases the chances that you will be sexually assaulted...
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Winning our Movements Inside and Out: Shifting the Social Justice Back into our Work
By Jardana Peacock Trauma is everywhere. It lives in between the lines of the articles we scan on Facebook, in our interactions with others, in...
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Self-Determination and the Struggle to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV
By Keiko Lane, MFT I don’t think we had slept together yet when he told me about the pills. He was, well, not exactly hoarding...
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Power Play with Anna Mae: Drunk in Love, Beyoncé and the Exploration of BDSM in the Deconstruction of Sexually Violent Mantras
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Fourteen weeks after its release, Drunk In Love has only now fallen to number 10 on Billboard’s “The Hot 100.” At week...
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Women, Men, Horses, and the Wild, Wild West: An Interview with Deanne Stillman
I met Deanne Stillman in September 2013, and it seemed we had a great deal to discuss. We talked on a breezy, warm day at...
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A Dialogue of Love: A Conversation on Freedom and Affect
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
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False “Purity” Notions Can Affect Victims’ Responses to Trauma
By Matt Atkinson At a recent healing retreat for survivors of sexual assault, one woman confided that she craved every bit of the healing, friendship,...
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Towards Community Wellness: Healing from Trauma through Yoga
By Jardana Peacock Some stories you don’t want to tell. Some places you just don’t want to return to. But some stories destroy you unless...
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...
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Talking About Grief and Violence
From the editors: Here at TFW, we have many, many email and phone conversations that never make their way onto our site. We bounce ideas...
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Occupying Myself: Resisting the Colonial Voices Within and Accepting My Heaviness
By Erin “Mari” Morales-Williams Right now I am depressed. My aunt’s husband sexually violated me when I was a teenager, and since she is still...
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With Audre as My Guide: Teaching and Surviving in Post Katrina New Orleans
By Sandra E. Weissinger I started my career as a sociologist in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina. The school I worked at still...
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I’m Exhausted but I Do Want to Be Well: Raising Womanish Girls, the Performance of Mothering and Wading in Murky Waters
By Melva L. Sampson I am exhausted! It is exhaustion that overwhelms and overruns me because of its deep-seated roots. Roots that make one question...
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On Motherhood and Surviving Sexual Violence
By Gretchen Davidson There are moments in life that lift a curtain and give us a glimpse of what is really propelling us through this...
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Blurring the Lines Between Mothering and Teaching
By Amy Hodges Hamilton I rushed into the classroom, organizing my books and notes while welcoming students to class. As I placed my bag under...
