Morley once said: "It was only because of her love and support that I was able to deal with the trauma, and begin to think about crossing over that terrifying gender border".
Instead of feeling isolated by depression, physical pain, a heavy flow, and past trauma, I began to think of my body again in terms of what it could accomplish, rather than how I might escape it, the ways it might inconvenience or hurts me, or how it might be harmed by others.
Proponents of trigger warnings for literature seem to think that trauma is incapable of being overcome, healed, or even ameliorated -- as if a traumatic event traps us indefinitely like Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code.
When smacked upside the collective head by trauma that highjacks our capacity to think, or when faced with apprehension about a military threat, we still tend to rush to judgment, rush to "do something," to flex our muscles.
I was interested in borrowing this scenario to think about collective trauma and grief and the speed of history".
One dreads to think of the trauma yet to come when those people who lost loved ones at Hillsborough do seek "justice" through the courts.
"You have to think in terms of extreme psychological trauma.
To go forward in life, you have to think of the good things, and things have changed, so why think of the trauma, of the pain?" Her father says: "It is just over three years but we never talk about it".
Exposure to childhood trauma is thought to interact with various susceptibility genes to increase the risk of BD, or to a more severe clinical expression of the expression of the disorder.
To coincide with the UK tour, the British Council will provide material online for thousands of schools in the UK and across the world to enable young people to discuss issues such as exile and trauma, and think about what they can do to welcome refugees.
