Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the center what is the center...
04.022019September 10, 2019
Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine
By Lisa SummeIn FeaturedTags “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays, “Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics, ableism, Ada Limon, adaptation, addiction, alcoholism, Anne Boyer, Anurag Agrawal, Audre Lorde, balance, Ban en Banlieu, Belladonna, Bhanu Kapil, bodies, borders, breath, breathwork, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, classism, colonialism, confessional writing, consent, coping mechanisms, D.A.R.E., Dale Pendell, darkness, datura, dissociation, embroidery, enre-Queer: Notes Against Generic Binaries in Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction, fragments, Francine J Harris, Franz Fanon, Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain, grief, harm reduction, healer, Helene Cixous, henbane, herbal remedies, herbalist, HIV, homophobia, iboga, Instructions on Not Giving Up, Jim Morningstar, Kate Zambreno, Kazim Ali, language, LBGTQ, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leslie Jamison, liminal space, linearity, loss, Louise DeSalvo, Mahogany L. Browne, Marge Piercy, meditation, Melissa Buzzeo, memory, mental health, methadone, microaggressions, Monarchs and Milkweed, mugwort, Natalie Diaz, Nick Cave, Not Writing, NYHRE, Paracelsus, Pharmako/Gnosis, plant medicine, play dead, Poison Path, psychedelics, PTSD, Push the Sky Away, Racialized Body, racism, reliable narrator, Rob Halpern, Seema Reza, sexuality, shame, Somatic Poetics, somatic writing workshop, suboxone, substance abuse, survival, Tara Hardy, Thom Donovon, Toilet Bowl: Some Notes on Why I Write, toxicology, Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference, transphobia, trauma, violence, Writing as a Way of Healing