Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Guernica Magazine

    The Trouble with Trauma

    The discourse around the #MeToo movement doesn't always reflect the realities of living with trauma. The post The Trouble with Trauma appeared first on Guernica.
    by Nimmi Gowrinathan Oct 25, 2019 2 minutes
    Johan Christian Dahl, An Eruption of Vesuvius (1824). The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    If I share my trauma, it will be put on trial.
    My memory will be asked to represent itself under oath.
    The prosecution won’t rest until they’ve extracted the wound,
    pulled threads to unravel me.
    Trauma is a weak defense.

    Moments of Revealing itself when I least expect it. Resisting the invasion of foreign agents; The therapist, the lawyer, the lover.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Guernica Magazine

    Guernica Magazine13 min read
    The Jaws of Life
    To begin again the story: Tawny had been unzipping Carson LaFell’s fly and preparing to fit her head between his stomach and the steering wheel when the big red fire engine came rising over the fogged curve of the earth. I saw it but couldn’t say any
    Guernica Magazine3 min read
    Revision
    “I heard you in the other room asking your mother, ‘Mama, am I a Palestinian?’ When she answered ‘Yes’ a heavy silence fell on the whole house. It was as if something hanging over our heads had fallen, its noise exploding, then—silence.” —Ghassan Kan
    Guernica Magazine8 min read
    The Glove
    It’s hard to imagine history more irresistibly told than it is in The Swan’s Nest, Laura. McNeal’s novel about the love affair between two giants of nineteenth century poetry, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Its contours are, surely, familiar

    Related