ALT Image of text that reads - If we take women’s writing on trauma as catharsis, as much of modern literary criticism does, the question would be rhetorical. However, Millar [and I] strongly rebuke such belittling of women’s words. She describes the writing process as hell, “I felt sick, I had panic attacks, I have never showered as much as I did when I wrote that first draft” - that doesn’t sound like self-care to me.