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wdym there’s a John Mayer cover of XO? wdym

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For @di-goldene-oygn and anyone else who would like it, have my trauma memoir reader. 

This is a long list, but it is whittled down from the ~250 trauma memoirs I have apparently read, so there are many, many things I did not include. I’ve organized loosely by what type of trauma is the focus of the narrative but this is an imperfect categorization system.

Memoirs of childhood abuse: The Tricky Part - Martin Moran Tiger, Tiger - Margaux Fragoso Where I Stopped - Martha Ramsey I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou That Mean Old Yesterday - Stacey Patton Excavation - Wendy Ortiz Skin and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Dorothy Allison Goja - Suniti Namjoshi Educated - Tara Westover A Shining Affliction - Annie G. Rogers Heavy - Kiese Laymon The Sound of Gravel - Ruth Wariner Man Alive - Thomas Page McBee The Book of Emma Reyes - Emma Reyes Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda The Incest Diary - Anonymous Denial - Jessica Stern Pulling the Chariot of the Sun - Shane McCrae Consent - Vanessa Springora Sex Cult Nun - Faith Jones

Memoirs of adult sexual assault and intimate partner violence: The Other Side - Lacy Johnson Days of a Russian Noblewoman (1758-1821) - Anna Labzina After Silence - Nancy Venable Raine Aftermath - Susan Brison Lucky - Alice Sebold In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption - Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton When I Hit You; Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife - Meena Kandasamy A History of Violence - Édouard Louis On Being Raped - Raymond Douglas South of Forgiveness - Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger Know My Name - Chanel Miller

Memoirs of abduction and captivity: Finding Me - Michelle Knight Hope - Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard 3,096 Days in Captivity - Natascha Kampusch

Memoirs of genocide: At the Mind’s Limits - Jean Améry If This Is a Man, The Reawakening, The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi And I Am Afraid of My Dreams - Wanda Poltawska Auschwitz and After - Charlotte Delbo First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung Cockroaches - Scholastique Mukasonga The Last Girl - Nadia Murad Tears of the Desert - Halima Bashir

Memoirs of political violence (torture, detention, exile) and war: Guatánamo Diary - Mohamedou Ould Slahi Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guatánamo - Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir Journal of an Ordinary Grief - Mahmoud Darwish A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous A Fort of Nine Towers - Qais Akbar Omar Daring to Drive - Manal Al-Sharif A Long Way Gone - Ismael Beah The Blindfold’s Eyes - Dianna Ortiz Asylum Denied - David Ngaruri Kenney Consequence - Eric Fair The Question - Henri Alleg The Little School - Alicia Partnoy Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number - Jacobo Timerman The Latehomecomer - Kao Kalia Yang

Memoirs of slavery and trafficking: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudo Equiano Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northrup Slave - Mende Nazer Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs My Life Has a Price - Tina Okpara Barracoon - Cudjo Lewis, transcribed by Zora Neale Hurston

Memoirs of gun violence and/or traumatic grief: Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward The Return - Hisham Matar Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me - Jerry McGill

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near death note moodboard

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Some of us sleep seldom in the nights

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Tried editing and finishing akg ch9.

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the decay of my writing over the course of writing akg my writing kind of atrophied a lot. i have one more scene to write in ch9. ch10 will kill me. but its akg for a rzn hehe.

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burning sunset clouds in dali, yunnan province of china

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Thinking about her.

cover for armageddon/kill game

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Listened to La Hija Unica by Guadalupe Nettel (trans by Rosalind Harvey, English title Still Born). It was decent.

Hold just ended on that coffee time travel book. I tried Rooney, will try again later reading not listening. Also some Raymond Carver short stories.

I NEED TO READ MORE

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No way home, Erin Morris

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'you got this prestigious award' yayyyyy

'you can only get the $ and do the thing if the federal gov gives the grant money :(' boooooo

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what are you wearing rn and is it representative of your style

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I NEED TO READ MORE

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she yearns for the tub water. disgusting.

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Can i say something problematique for terminally online millenials and people born after that point: I think the seeming lack of ability or willingness to call one another and chat on the phone with friends unprompted or out of the blue contributes to whatever hellish loneliness everyone is talking about feeling these days. Say what you want about boomers and old people but those guys mostly knew how to keep in touch with each other. Idk man call a bitch today