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Posted on September 11, 2018

I Can’t Remember The Day The Twin Towers Fell

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Written by
Rachel Custer
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Society+Politics
Tagged
9/11, Depression, memory, twin towers

Admission: I remember and feel very little about the events of 9/11. Read more

Posted on August 14, 2018 August 9, 2018

Sensing Danger Before It’s Visibly Apparent (And Other Useful Lessons In A World Rife With Destruction)

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Written by
July Westhale
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members-only, Society+Politics
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community, family, memory, Oakland, privelege, rape culture, revolution

Humans are repositories of composite knowledge, learned by rote because of necessity or habit, much of which sits below, glacially submerged. Read more

Posted on July 11, 2018 July 11, 2018

Amnesia And Other Gifts

Katie Tandy
Written by
Katie Tandy
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Lust+Liaisons, members-only
Tagged
love, memoir, memory, relationships, sex, trauma

My fascinating if mildly morbid research started because I couldn’t remember having sex with my ex boyfriend. It was as though someone had come in with kindergarten scissors and started sloppily snipping those memories away. Read more

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