Tag: Trauma

I Made it Out of Gaza. Now I’m Fighting for a Second Chance at Life.

I first met Salma Shurrab, 22, the same way I met many young Palestinians who’ve been speaking up about the war in Gaza: on TikTok. Born and raised in the strip, Salma was a fifth-year dentistry student and an established social media marketer before the war. In early December, she managed to cross the Rafah […]

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We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.

If only hierarchies of injury didn’t just create new opportunities to inflict pain. Some classes of people will be at the bottom—their traumas “not as bad” as others’—and our history shows that it’s the same classes of people at the bottom every time. Total access has to be the goal. Otherwise, we will stop short […]

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