The new issue of Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine has been published and is available at https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol8/iss1/ Entitled “Am I Invisible,” the issue collects stories and critical reflections by people who feel that their experiences of trauma have not yet been seen.
The issue contains stories by breast cancer survivors, survivors of abuse and of birth trauma, and more. The issue also contains scholarly works that attempt to describe and offer ways for us to support humans in trauma.
Laura Thro, a graduate student in the Master of Professional Studies program at the University of Minnesota Duluth, co-edited this special issue. In her editor’s introduction, Thro wrote:
We asked students, educators, caregivers, victims/survivors, advocates, first responders, and all others who feel they are invisible to bring light to their experiences for others to see.
The truth is that the majority of us have or will experience trauma; the unfortunate truth is also that people tell us our trauma is not actually trauma. Trauma is trauma, and we want to help folks know they are not invisible, that we see you and you are not alone.
Laura Thro (she/her/hers) is an affiliate of the Center for Restorative Justice at the University of Minnesota. Thro has worked as the Domestic Violence Restorative Circles Coordinator at Men As Peacemakers. She has an A.S. in Psychology, a B.A. in IS-Psychology of Domestic Violence, and a B.A. in Criminology, before now entering the Master of Professional Studies program. She worked on this project with Professor David Beard.
For more information about the Master of Professional Studies program, please visit https://cahss.d.umn.edu/departments/multidisciplinary-programs/mps. For more information about the program in Writing Studies, where Dr. Beard teaches courses, please visit https://cahss.d.umn.edu/elws. For more information, contact David Beard at [email protected]