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After three and a half years, The Establishment is coming to an end. Since October 2015, we've published more than 4,000 incredible stories by 990 writers. Thank you for making our dream of a more diverse media landscape possible! theestablishment.co/farewell…
"For nonbinary and trans folks, stories about chosen names are often stories of self-knowledge."
By @Tyler_TM
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"In Ancient Egypt, people kept their real name secret; it was believed that if someone learned your real name, they’d have power over you."
By @Tyler_TM
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"'Tyler' fits. Sometimes I felt guilty interviewing people who had to go through an arduous process to find a name that felt right. All I did was emerge from the womb."
By @Tyler_TM
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"'It is good to understand that we are made of memory,
that time grows without listening to us.
That there are many things we do not understand.'"
By @JulyWesthale
#trauma
#grief
#PoetryMonth
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"It makes good sense to need something larger than our Western framework can hold — and our Western framework does poor work of containing the complex shadow lives of death, dying, aging, grieving."
By @JulyWesthale
#trauma
#grief
#PoetryMonth
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"Sometimes amid damaging patterns, the loss of people we love, our creeping self-doubt and bone-tiredness with grey—we need reminding our life has been here, beautiful and shining, the whole time."
By @JulyWesthale
#trauma
#grief
#PoetryMonth
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"I imagined all those Indians dancing on the streets, knowing exactly who they were and what they fought for. I wanted to know what it meant to feel contentment, disgust—anything besides empty."
By Aliya Mistry
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"We Hindus are so caught up in the suppression of sexual discourse that finding where I belong would mean more lies, more sins."
By Aliya Mistry
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"I’ve made a terrible mistake, I thought. All these years, I thought this was what I wanted. I’ll never get a full night of sleep again. I want my life back."
By @SharlineChiang from @MuthaMagazine
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"Scientists have found pregnant rats experience an almost complete rewiring of brain circuitry before giving birth. She’s bolder and more efficient, capturing her cricket prey at four times the speed of non-mom rats."
By @shanleyknox
#PTSD
#birth
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"At week 26, when my baby was as big as a head of kale, a technician at Mt Sinai hit me — and him — with her blue gel wand, so she could see his stomach chambers. He jumped. And I froze — silent. Like so many times before."
By @shanleyknox
#PTSD
#birth
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"For a body that had returned to episodes of violence over and over and over again, it was the first time in my adult life that I was producing something — anything — that might be restorative, and I could feel the change."
By @shanleyknox
#PTSD
#birth
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"New Orleans hadn’t changed; it was the same city it had been before my breakdown. It was I who had changed—perhaps unalterably. I was a stranger to myself now, so how could the city and its residents not feel foreign?"
By @Ms_Slyboots
#mentalillness
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