I know we're meant to be experiencing cozy holiday festive vibes, drinking eggnog and feeling merry. But I keep bracing for yet another harrowing long read as the familiar, sinking feeling of PTSD bubbles away in my belly
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I keep coming back to the end of Sophie Smith's LRB piece 'Sleeping Women':
"The poet Muriel Rukeyser once asked: ‘What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?’ ‘The world,’ her poem responds, ‘would split open.’"
Smith continues: "In 1968, when Rukeyser wrote her poem, it was possible to think that the world might change if only women told the truth about their lives. But the last several decades, decades during which women around the world have challenged male power, have shown us otherwise."
With content warnings
1) pedophilia/sexual abuse of children/Alzheimer's/intergenerational trauma/abusive family dynamics
2) mass rape/drug facilitated sexual assault/abuse/
3) sexual harassment/smear campaign/astroturfing/bad practice on set
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"The poet Muriel Rukeyser once asked: ‘What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?’ ‘The world,’ her poem responds, ‘would split open.’"
Anyways, here are the three magnificent and incredibly upsetting pieces I've been thinking about nonstop.
1) pedophilia/sexual abuse of children/Alzheimer's/intergenerational trauma/abusive family dynamics
2) mass rape/drug facilitated sexual assault/abuse/
3) sexual harassment/smear campaign/astroturfing/bad practice on set