We need to snap out of the fantasy that socialised traumas like rape are aberrations in an otherwise fair society
I’m killing time in a medical centre waiting room scrolling through my feeds. Twitter’s still talking about the arrest and reported self-harm of Dylan Voller following the “Stolenwealth Games” protest. A headline reads, “Surat [India]: Body of 11-year-old girl found with 86 injuries, autopsy confirms rape.” Tabloids fear world war three in light of US strikes on Syria. The dissonant clanging of Tony Robbins mansplaining #MeToo continues to reverberate. Looking up, my gaze rests on the bold lettering of a family violence brochure: “IT’S TIME TO SAY ENOUGH” (which feminists have been stressing for centuries). I think of my mother. I remember kid me.
It’s also time for a wholesale appreciation of trauma as a historical operative in the present, and transmittable encultured process, time to connect the dots between syndromes of social ills and avoidable “tragedies”.
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2FsV2Vg
Comments
Post a Comment