Van Der Kolk’s Mohawk of Self-Awareness and Punk Rock as Therapeutic Intervention

Nothing says healing from trauma like a mosh pit.

Taken Names, Devoured People: Andrea Smith’s “Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence” in Native Cultures

In honor of our penultimate blogpost as All Night, we have decided to pull a page from the writings of women that we have been gifted with this term, and share our individual experiences of this latest offering…

From “We shall overcome” to “Fuck the police”: How African-American’s have used music to find their voice in the face of trauma.

Hope in the Midst of Suffering

The Jurgies — Andi, Angie, Elisabeth, Elyse, Luke, Ruth, Stephanie, and Tiffany — loved our meetings this trimester. We read about witnessing trauma and were witnesses to one another’s traumas. We studied Moltmann’s theology of hope and embraced each other’s hopeless moments…

Trauma and Theology — Why?

One thing that the three of us in the Queer Midrash group shared was the deep-seeded sense of the importance of thinking through the intersections of Trauma and Theology.

For the three of us, we have all deeply encountered the ways in which trauma can…

Welcoming a Queer

Thoughts on a Table for All

Building a New Past

This week our group, Mad Liberation, read and discussed another chapter Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score. Per…

Heirlooms and Accessories: Owning Your Self

“Trauma robs you of the feeling that you are in charge of yourself, […]. The…

Hope, Healing, and Suffering: A Creative Expression

Trauma & the Eucharistic Table

In Chapter 3 of “The Body Keeps the Score,” our group read about how trauma remains part of our story, as it literally alters the mapping of our brain. Trauma is physically held in the body, and the body doesn’t lie in the same way our mind does. We asked the question, “What…