trauma
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Wounds and Art, Healing and Memorials
2026 seems to be beginning much like 2025 ended. The ever-constant news of tragedy continues to dominate many social media feeds, and while none of it is particularly different from the tragedies we’ve been experiencing, having such events happen so… Continue reading
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Kicking Everyday Sexism’s Butt: An Airport Encounter
Story time. I’m at the airport, working on my laptop, sitting near a guy I just met at a conference this weekend. He and I were both invited speakers, and he was waiting for his flight home too. Another guy… Continue reading
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Trauma at the Border: Is the Bond Between Criminalized Parent and Child Sacred as Well?
The Trump administration’s decision to rip immigrant parents from their children is evil. This is as obvious to me as the color of the sky. Many U.S.-Americans-although not nearly enough-have raised their voices in righteous protest against this misuse of… Continue reading
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Trigger Warnings, Trauma, & a Politics of “Thick Life:” On Halberstam’s “You are Triggering Me,” and Povinelli’s Empire of Love
One of the main discourses to constitute social differentiation as hierarchy and domination is that of binary opposition. –Janet Jakobsen, 1998 … Continue reading
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Coping with Emotionally Difficult Material
Theologians urgently need to engage the realities of suffering and violence in the world in order for contemporary theology to remain authentic. Yet, this can be an exhausting and disturbing process. Theologians need to have strategies in place in order… Continue reading
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Trauma, Suffering and Childbirth
The trauma of sexual abuse and rape benefit from a clear understanding of suffering as bestowing no kind of benefit to the victim and as entirely opposed by God. Yet, the suffering of childbirth is a different case. But, this… Continue reading
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Reflections on Holy Saturday with Shelly Rambo
The problem with a typical narration of salvation is that we tend to have a linear understanding of redemption. We read the story of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection in terms of a strong start, an awful middle, and an… Continue reading
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Violence, Memory, and Mourning
When artists put into words non-dominant narratives of violence we are able to rehearse alternatives forms of remembering— forms of remembering which defy language as defined exclusively by the powerful, which resist a culture of secrecy and silence which is… Continue reading