By: Poet Bloggers Revival Digest: Week 8 – Via Negativa

Poet Bloggers Revival Digest: Week 8 – Via Negativa — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 03:23:50 +0000

[…] If you’ve always relied on your brain, rather than your body, for a sense of self-worth and self-respect, and it lets you down, it’s disheartening. It’s frustrating. But one neurologist who specializes in recovering from different types of brain injury (including MS lesions) told me that we don’t really know what the brain can do when challenged, how plastic our memory and abilities. As a writer I’ve tried to continue to write through all the health challenges I’ve had, even when my fingers could barely type. The piece I wrote about the consequences of being raped when I was six (and pondering the long-term consequences for so may girls who have had these things happen to them) was written a few months ago when I was still practicing my motor skills and swallowing, and I hope it will be helpful to someone. Talking about rape isn’t super fun or upbeat, but until we start protecting people and standing up against a culture of “boys will be boys” and “it’s okay for girls to suffer in silence” and “well, it happens to everyone” I’m afraid that little girls will be in the same danger I was in in 1979. As I talked about in my last post, it’s important not to get so fatigued mentally, spiritually, physically that we stop fighting for what is right. I am trying. Jeannine Hall Gailey, A piece on rape culture on The Rumpus, outrage fatigue, a renovation and accessibility, and what to … […]

By: Jan Priddy

Jan Priddy — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:21:07 +0000

I read your posts for wisdom and inspiration. I sent a link of The Rumpus to a student who needs to read it. I hope she will.
with love,
jan

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By: Poet Bloggers Revival Digest: Week 8 – Via Negativa

By: Jan Priddy