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ICE Raided My Son’s Daycare to Abduct a Teacher. This Kind of Trauma Lasts.
Children in Illinois have suffered months of systematic abuse by federal agents enacting Trump's immigration raids.
Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling.
Watching disappearances in our community leaves psychological trauma, but we can counter it with our solidarity.
Gaza Mental Health Professionals Warn of Urgent, Widespread Trauma Crisis
“We have entered a stage of chronic trauma fatigue, where people live in a state of emotional numbness,” a doctor warns.
To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change
“PTSD, in many ways, works like a time machine,” says healing justice practitioner Chiara Galimberti.
Native Boarding Schools Were Genocidal — Healing Starts With Telling the Truth
True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.
Trauma of Palestinians Who Fled Gaza for Egypt Is Compounded by Legal Woes
The tens of thousands of Palestinians now in Egypt may be safe from Israel’s bombs, but are still stuck in legal limbo.
Challenging the Criminalization of Trauma Survivors
The criminal legal system traumatizes survivors. Noncarceral alternatives are key to breaking the cycle of violence.
Capitalism Fuels Disease, Trauma and Addiction. How Can We Heal?
Physician Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.”
Working in Prison Fields Didn’t “Correct” Me, It Revealed the System’s Brutality
If one was paid to design a system that exacerbates trauma for vulnerable women, this would be the ideal model.