Trauma

Turning off life support It was in a controlled, peaceful environment, and the family were present. I’m a critical care nurse before things get misconstrued. I’m writing about what happened because I find it helps me dissect my thoughts clearly and logically. It’s good to work through the thick fog…

“For us to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson — that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings. And neither were most of you here today, Black or not. And that visibility…

I was recently on a flight that involved a young screaming child and a lot of turbulence. This isn’t necessarily an uncommon situation when I fly, but I was struck by the nastiness of the comments I heard about her as I got off the plane. One man went so…

By Laurie Mazur Uvalde. Buffalo. Tulsa. These are only the latest American cities to be engulfed in trauma from a ceaseless wave of gun violence. And the spasms of bloodshed those cities have endured are layered on top of ongoing harms, like structural racism, disinvestment, and inequity. …

It’s empowering to read Medium’s “Tell Your Story…”, just when the heart wants to tell one. It’s difficult to imagine how 10 months 15 days went by since I wrote last. This were not just any 10 months. Come to think of it and 16th august 2021 was the day…

My father is applauded in Roe vs. Wade and it’s all hands on deck to keep his temper from flaring with political decisions. He’s a cancer survivor and currently battling seizures that renders his body powerless. I’m convinced it’s the post-traumatic stress from growing up poor and Black on the…

Is Feminism Worth Saving? Feminism has almost come to feel like an outdated, old-fashioned term. It has the charm of a rotary phone. Today’s dialogue around diversity makes the simple men-versus-women arguments of decades back seem, well, antiquated. So, is feminism worth saving? Roe v Wade has been repealed. A…