In an era of public revelation, reflections on the ubiquitous trauma arc
“In a world infatuated with victimhood, has trauma emerged as a passport to status — a red badge of courage?” asks Parul Sehgal in a recent New Yorker essay. Sehgal provides a brief history of trauma diagnoses from…
I’ll be moving my parents cross-state this weekend — barring any COVID lockdowns at their new nursing facility. My weekly to-do list is a mess of back-to-the-office chores and prep for the move.
There’s a doodled formula: the rate at which my father uses his oxygen times the longest conceivable…
Humans are funny about the promise of a new year. I keep chuckling to myself remembering all those stories and memes celebrating the end of 2019, what many described then as literally, the worst year of my life. Oh, 2020 was going to be so awesome! For those who had…
I’m of an age that for me, first-run WB shows — One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls — felt like guilty pleasures, not only for their soapy drama, but that as a college, and later, grad student, I should have, by then, outgrown high school storylines. But I’m also a sucker…
This past weekend, my daughter’s ballet studio returned to live performance after a long pandemic hiatus. Little girls and young women in gauzy tutus and young boys and men in costumes and slippers took a stage with a backdrop of lollipops and a candy castle. The dancers and an adoring…
Content warning: This story discusses child sexual abuse.
A federal jury in Arkansas has found Josh Duggar guilty of receipt and possession of child pornography.
Duggar was a childhood star of reality show 19 Kids and Counting, part of a family that came to prominence with a novel abundance of…
Over the holiday weekend, and with evident spare time to be spent casting others as “false teachers,” one pastor (and then a drizzle of followers) took to social media to attack scholars such as Kristin Kobes Du Mez, and then sideswipe Beth Allison Barr, Jemar Tisby, Jacob Alan Cook, Samuel…
“Happy National Family Caregivers Month,” I’ve been told multiple times in the past few weeks as I tried to find an advocate to help me help my parents.
Each call begins the same summary: the hip break, the move to respite care and rehab for both parents, a recognition of…
I was a young mom with a toddler in preschool when I attended a committee hearing at the Ohio Statehouse for a bill, that among other shocking moves, aimed to expand concealed carry to daycares (unless the daycare explicitly banned firearms). A few moments from that hearing still stick vividly…
The documentary “Postcards from Babylon,” streaming on Amazon Prime, argues it has
Since the violent attack on our U.S. Capitol, where “Jesus Saves” signs and “Jesus Is My Savior/Donald Trump Is My President” banners intermingled with white supremacist symbols, some Christian leaders have begun confronting a reality entrenched within American…
Sarah Stankorb is a contributor to GEN. Other works in The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic. @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com
