In America, buildings are burning in the aftermath of yet another police killing. In Australia, a mining company explodes the earth which homes the ancestry of the indigenous people who have lived their for 40,000 years. On Hive, a girl tells her story of being raped at 14 years old.
Whether the story of violence is against a people, a community, a child or the earth, the ripples spread outward and the effects are felt throughout lifetimes. Sometimes, it is easy to find one person to blame, an overarching evil that should be destroyed. Most often, it is more complex than that - there is a matrices of reasons violence occurs, and to spend time unravelling it pulls us into dark territory too.
This challenge, however, asks us not how we 'fix' or who to 'blame' but how to heal.
What do we do in these times?
How do we overcome such trauma personally and/or collectively?
What strategies can we use to heal our wounded hearts and minds?
You might like to focus on one particular violence - for example, deforestation or cultural oppression or a personal story of sexual assault or even how words might inflict violence - and unravel what steps you have taken to heal, or what you believe can be done to overcome such violence.
You don't have to get personal if this is hard for you - general approaches to hypothetical situations is just as valid as pulling apart a personal history. You don't have to write about personal experiences if you'd prefer to focus on collective ones.
You might choose to downplay the 'violence' aspect or redefine it as 'trauma' as the two are inextricably linked.
As usual, we love you to focus on YOUR angle and YOUR approach, using the prompt as a starting off point for your own exploration.
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