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.

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…

Grief and play: They go hand in hand…

“Theater was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.” — Stella…

Speak the Unspeakable

It only takes a cursory glance at human behavior and history to understand that we need community. It is not just for convenience that we root ourselves into a group, or grow up in some sort of family. We crave connection and need it on a deep, core level; to the point that we will suffer…

Reconnection

Landscape and Love: Eco-theology

In our discussion around trauma and eco-theology, we attended to several readings. We read Chapter 13 in The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, and Davia brought in her reading of Andrea…

Poesis and football and pain and costumes

Expressive arts therapy rests on the premise that imagination is the healer, that encouraging the soul to speak in its own way transforms darkness into light, the hidden and concealed into the open, and thus provides insight and release. ~ Poesis