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2 years

@rgay I love this. I had the worst day (husband had open heart surgery), and I go on Twitter, and first up is updated nemesis news and honestly, it’s the only smile I’ve worn all day! ❤️❤️❤️

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@kylieoralobell I’ve wanted to convert for a long time & many reasons, but October 7th transformed my desire into action. Just got home from a class at the Chabad. 🇮🇱

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@ThatEricAlper Bring back Milli Vanilli. They never even said anything.

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4 years

@rgay I’m sorry to hear that. It does happen to us all: sociopathy lurks.

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@isabelunraveled Stop wearing heels immediately. I didn’t listen. I’m 50 now. Believe me!

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@AliAbunimah This is a lie. My family was there.

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@GadSaad It’s hard to witness without suffering a complete mental breakdown in which I begin to wonder if I’m delusional or hallucinating. It causes me to feel visceral terror when I see the world celebrate barbarism.

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@ThatEricAlper Nobody puts Baby in the corner…

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@lillydancyger @beccasaltz That is an evil doll destined to end up in a locked case—the future roommate of Robert the Doll.

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@ThatEricAlper Prince. Every time.

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@ThatEricAlper Ruth on Ozark

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@AliAbunimah As this keeps blowing up on my alerts: It’s clear there is much desperation to try and frame the narrative to fit a unilateral agenda. You are committed to your goal. But for those who visit this thread, silent but seeking and unsure: There was a massacre. Hamas killed and raped

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@dragonfliesout You’ve hijacked the word “Zionism” and contaminated it to mean something evil. The illiberalism of the left! These resignations are performative privilege and a total disgrace toward the survivors of a brutal massacre who also happened to be the peace activists.

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@isabelunraveled But more seriously, now that I read your lovely essay: My mother has always seen herself as too old for anything. Back when she was 38, she’d decided she was too old for a new romance, a new career, etc. I knew I never wanted to inherit this mentality, and so I am intentional

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@iSmashFizzle “But she’s your MOTHER!” Like being caught in a trap that one never gets out of, held captive by the hunter and all who bear witness.

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2 years

1. On Writing About Trauma (A Thread): 24 years ago, I took my 1st ever writing workshop. Instructor told class: NO writing about childhood abuse & NO Fecal Matter. Sucked for me because I’d just distributed my pages for critique. At least I had not written about fecal matter.

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@ThatEricAlper Ted Lasso

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5 months

@Amirmizroch Thank you for sharing these stories with us. May his courage & sacrifice be a comfort to all he leaves behind. He is a true hero.

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4 years

@rgay Adoption in this country is full of horror. It is, in my opinion, one of the most f’d up systems in America, driven by a narrative that has been owned by a majority power for way too long. So many victims...

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2 years

I Grew Up Believing My Childhood Home Was Haunted. I Discovered The Truth Is Much Worse. | HuffPost HuffPost Personal

I Grew Up Believing My Childhood Home Was Haunted. I Discovered The Truth Is Much Worse.

'''The painters found a stash of Polaroids in a closet. Photos of satanic rituals,' Dad said. 'They painted these crosses to protect us from the evil lurking here.'”

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2 years

@toddedillard If that were my MIL, I’d require a stool sample before allowing her to visit my home. I mean, not everyone can be picked to poop in my toilet. And what about the other guests, having to endure the inferior poop smell?

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@AliAbunimah Yasmin is fierce. Before she survived the crossfire, she survived Hamas. Multiple times.

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@JoyceCarolOates Even the Pope seems progressive compared to the MAGA Christians.

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5 months

@PatriciaHeaton They say they’re fueled by righteousness, but looks more like addiction to dopamine & other neurotransmitters. Serious pathology in our country. This will not end with Israel-Gaza.

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@AliAbunimah She also survived the Hamas shootings at the Nova festival. And the slaughters at the kibbutz.

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2 years

HUGE thanks to @noahmichelson who was best editor for this essay, but even bigger than that, somehow knew exactly HOW to be best editor for this writer (without knowing me IRL). I am so grateful.

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@JenGilmanPorat

2 years

I Grew Up Believing My Childhood Home Was Haunted. I Discovered The Truth Is Much Worse. | HuffPost HuffPost Personal

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5 months

@briebriejoy This is FALSE. My family was there. Stop spreading lies.

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8 months

@gentanishku @GuernicaMag @joannachen1 The Kibbutzniks are NOT settlers. The problematic settlers are in the West Bank, and most Israelis oppose the settlements. People born in Israel just living their lives in the kibbutzim—they were the peace activists. And they were raped and massacred and kidnapped.

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3 years

@rgay I cannot take anymore. The end.

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@emilynussbaum Oh yes. It was “Can Love Last,” written by the relational psychoanalyst, Stephen Mitchell. I plucked it off my bookshelf one evening, after feeling completely unseen by my husband, who had just bought me a pair of expensive earrings. I almost never wear jewelry. Really, I was

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6 years

My body is just so inhospitable. I want to give it a crappy review online somewhere, like trip advisor for the chronically ill. @SjogrensOrg @SjogrensStrong @SjogrensCa #chronicillness #ChronicPain

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@JoyceCarolOates Alice Munro was complicit in this abuse, as was Andrea’s biological father & stepmother. Who knows how many other adults turned their heads? How many other children were also abused? We have Munro’s stories. They do not lack complexity. Her real life, it seems, shared that

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@rebeccaaweber @rgay Thank you 🙏🏻

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6 years

The Neanderthal via @wordpressdotcom

The Neanderthal - Longreads

Jen Gilman Porat seeks a genetic excuse for her husband’s barbaric table manners.

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5 months

@MarkRuffalo Mark, please be careful. When you translate a complex moral dilemma into a numbers game, you normalize hostage taking. There is no way to quantify barbarism. It’s infinite. Israel has a moral imperative to get back its citizens. This is a proxy war. Israel is not the enemy.

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@JenGilmanPorat

2 years

Took another class with @GarthGreenwell today, which means I’ve gained another obsession. This time: Elizabeth Bishop. Knew of her work and long intended to make her acquaintance. I could regret my procrastination but formal intro by Garth made wait worthwhile. He lit a match!

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@JoyceCarolOates My impulse is to run straight toward her stories. There’s something about dismissing her work, now, that feels like a repetition of denial. Whether one can “locate” the artist’s psychology in their fiction is up for debate. But I’m curious.

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@megpillow The sibling alliance is one bright light in this, and I hope it continues to strengthen over time. That Alice didn’t cook or garden is the oddest response. I suppose she’s in shock too. Shock can yield the the most bizarre utterances.

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2 years

17. There are 206 bones in an adult human body. At 48 years of age, my work is just beginning.

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5 months

@fred_guttenberg Unbelievable that this is where we’re at.

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6 months

@kylieoralobell I relate to this, Kylie. I decided to convert in the aftermath of 10/7, and what you describe—this tension between love & hate, meaning & chaos—resonates with my journey now. When I study Torah, the text is alive, illuminating the present. I’d never felt close to G-d before.

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@AvivaKlompas @AOC She’s flying on the winds of identity politics. May she land soon & swiftly. Hopefully somewhere in the Muslim world of radical Islam…

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2 years

@JoyceCarolOates What fascinated me about Midsommer is that it reminded me of a Waldorf school. After watching it, I did some research & discovered that the writer did find inspiration there! See this from Vanity Fair:

Midsommar: What Inspired the Bizarre Folklore in the Film?

Here’s where writer-director Ari Aster got his inspiration for the film, which puts a creepy spin on Swedish midsummer festivals.

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16. There will be blowback, I am sure. Some family members have never believed me. This essay is one tiny piece of so much more. I start with a single bone. This essay is one little bone of a skeleton I’m trying to construct.

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@JoyceCarolOates Guernica’s recent retraction of a gorgeous & nuanced essay, written by an Israeli woman, left many in despair. To see a survivor of the massacre demonstrate expansive empathy, even continuing to risk her physical life with real activism, felt like hope. That got canceled.

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@ambernoelle What no one told me is that teenagers would start looking like tall babies; and 20-somethings like teenagers. Also, nobody looks *that* old anymore. I remember fearing old people as a kid. Suddenly, old has disappeared.

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@AOC Even if I believed one could achieve all three of these ambitious tasks simultaneously, AOC still misses the bigger picture: This is a proxy war. The battleground is not limited to the middle east. First identify our enemy correctly. Then set your goals.

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@HilzFuld I’m suffering from so much derealization right now. I had a brain tumor removed in 2020, and they said it went well, but lately, I’m doubting the brain’s functioning. It’s me, right? This can’t be real…

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1 year

@Federalist26 @DianaUrban @_nelb_ I sign a waiver every time I let my kid play at the local gymnastics place. Or I rent a waverunner. We’re all signing waivers whenever we get life-saving medical care.

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6 years

@oreyes107 I Need Five Minutes

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2 years

14. I write this list tonight because in the morning, HuffPost is publishing an essay I wrote. That essay includes a scene I’d tried writing about back in the original writing workshop, the one that scared me out of writing altogether.

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9 months

I have a new essay up at Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog today! Here’s to supporting writers of memoir & personal essay. Finally got my backordered copy of @blakebutler ’s Molly this week! ?

In a Book I Haven’t Read, I Found Permission to Write

By Jen Gilman Porat Recently, my newsfeed featured a link to an article from The New Yorker, “Can a Memoir Say Too Much?” Instead of clicking it, my eyes snapped shut as if I’d stumbled across a de…

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@96fps @AliAbunimah How so? I did not disagree that Yasmin survived. AGAIN, she survived MORE THAN ONCE. And she survived Hamas MORE THAN ONCE.

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@JoyceCarolOates There are numerous other vehicles for spreading evil by persons not inherently evil: indoctrination of youth is one.

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@JenGilmanPorat

2 years

15. I was 24 then. I am 48 now. It literally took another 24 years to have the courage to submit something like this.

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@megpillow @writesloud Survivors are also going to have diverse responses to the news. My inclination is to start rereading her stories, trying to understand the psychology of the complicit mother. Can it be done? Who knows? As for the surviving children: I hope they all remain intact through this.

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@mariasimocodes @dragonfliesout Nope. You are ignorant & it shows. But keep following the trending mob. Psychology studies show people will stand on long lines just because other people are on them, even when no one knows why anyone stands there.

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@jacobkornbluh Why is she defining antisemitism? And does she not know approximately 70% of Jews in Israel are persons of color?

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6 years

@honwriter @JoVarnish1 Writer friends are the best kind!

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@future_widow @gentanishku @GuernicaMag @joannachen1 Nope

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@96fps @AliAbunimah It is certainly not “just me” saying anything. That would make me quite a powerful being. There is footage & evidence & accounts & hostages stolen. Hamas committed a massacre.

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@AfroBoy777 @kylieoralobell 29 years ago, during my first visit to Israel, I was explaining why I couldn’t accept the Catholic religion I’d been raised in: “I always got in trouble for asking too many questions.” I was then told that not only can you ask questions in Judaism, you’re supposed to.

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@KayeSteinsapir I’m thinking we need to build ships and become the pirates of the diaspora. If global warming floods the land, we’ll be redeemed. And we’re not letting Greta onboard.

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@JenGilmanPorat

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9. I worked with her for 20 years. I’d still be her patient, but she ultimately retired in 2019. I will never be “cured.” But my therapy is the reason why I’m still here. It was not easy.

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4 years

I survived brain surgery in a pandemic. So far, so good. Note that the tumor was displacing my left parietal lobe—the seat of the writer’s brain—so hopefully this makes sense. #COVID19 #MedTwitter #WritingCommunity

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@JenGilmanPorat

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@legroff Anyhow, I’ve sent many wounded children to her, and the results are transformational. Even if not homeschooling, she offers once weekly classes that inspire writing. My friend’s 12 year old went from daily crying (under FL state curriculum) to joining NaNoWriMo!

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13. I was fortunate through dumb luck to have chosen a spouse (at age 21) who is the best person I know. Also, he made enough money for me to even obtain therapy in the first place. Good therapy is not accessible to most people in this country.

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6. I was a college grad with a BA in English and Philosophy, so lacked background knowledge in psychology. There was no infrastructure for finding a “trauma-informed” clinician. Trauma-informed was not even a phrase yet.

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@YossiGoldstein8 🇮🇱

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10. I also devoted much time to learning about memory, the physiological impact of trauma, etc. I enrolled in a post bac program in psychology at Columbia, later completed an MSW, and then obtained an LCSW.

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@JenGilmanPorat

6 years

Thank you editor @saribotton for your keen eye and collaborative approach--you're a pleasure to work with! And huge thanks to @readandbreathe and all the other writers who helped workshop my first draft! Love this beautiful art by @LilyPadula !

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6 years

"A couple of years ago, I purchased a pair of @23andMe kits for myself and my husband, Tomer. I intended to scientifically prove that Tomer’s most irritating behaviors were genetic destiny and therefore unchangeable." @JenGilmanPorat (Art by @LilyPadula )

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The editorial team needs an education. This is the opposite of Guernica’s mission. This is the opposite of love. Of art. And though many who have joined this trending parade feel righteous, those of us who hold the actual grief of Israel-Gaza—we see your ignorant arrogance.

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I mean, people should follow their conscience. But I hope everyone in the lit community will give some thought to the larger implications of suppressing unpopular speech/art, and requiring writers to pass some ideological purity test.

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@JoVarnish1 Write me in!

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2 years

My young adult son just called to scold me. Apparently, an essay I wrote is doing an “instant trend on the gram.” and he said I need an account ASAP! I tried, but it’s all pictures over there. What even happens in that land?

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@JenGilmanPorat

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Thanks @alexanderchee and @shipman_agency Class shared strategies for generating material & generous demonstration of how said material may yield variety of genres, both fiction and CNF. Memory (for writers) now seems like stem cells (for bodies). So many potential structures…

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@ThatEricAlper Do you really want to hurt me?

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3. I finally tried other workshops. When they’re good, they can be amazing spaces. When they’re bad, they can destroy. I have complex PTSD. I proceeded with caution.

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@JenGilmanPorat

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So grateful for @GarthGreenwell & @alexanderchee & @shipman_agency and want to send their shared wisdom to all the earlier versions of myself, especially the one who experienced that first awful workshop mandate that censored all trauma stories.

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6 years

Thank you @MargaretAtwood for last night’s @KeyWestLiterary keynote address. You were brilliant AND hilarious and Americans need to laugh more right now. Humor is often the best vehicle for wisdom. Thank you for bringing us joy and resurrecting our smiles.

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@PoliPlatypus @gentanishku @GuernicaMag @joannachen1 Wrong

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2 years

It’s the eve of my husband’s open heart surgery, & this is what he sends me to watch before bed: Kramer Drops A Junior Mint In Roy | The Junior Mint | Seinfeld via @YouTube

Kramer Drops A Junior Mint In Roy | The Junior Mint | Seinfeld

Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate, it's peppermint; it's delicious!From Seinfeld Season 4 Episode 20, The Junior Mint: Elaine decides to vi...

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@jodie_cook I start my day by looking for a bird outside. The first bird I spot, I take a few minutes to calmly observe it, listen to any birdsong, and breathe deeply while doing so. For the rest of the day, when I’m feeling stressed/overwhelmed, I think about that “early” bird. This

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@JoyceCarolOates It is an absolute failure to grasp the gestalt. I am praying for an October surprise in which Hillary & Michelle run together. And I am not criticizing Biden—he is carrying the weight of an impossible situation.

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@JoyceCarolOates I saw Midsommer after my daughter had attended a few years at a Waldorf school. There’s lots to admire in a well executed Waldorf program; however, one must tolerate its cultish flavor. I was amused by the esoterica UNTIL I watched Midsommar. It was Waldorf-inspired horror. I

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@JenGilmanPorat

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@K_O_Sundberg I actually thought of your essay while watching the camera footage. If memory serves, the final line of your piece reads, “I tried so hard.” While watching Gabby in that footage, I thought of this line, because she looks like she is trying so hard to accommodate everyone else.

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8. I ended up reading academic material written for advanced psychotherapists. No psych background but great reading comprehension. That’s how I found my therapist—she’d written a seminal book (for other therapists) on treating trauma survivors.

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5. It began with my first inpatient hospitalization. Upon discharge, I needed a competent therapist. I tried a few. No good.

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7. Remember: There was barely even internet yet. So, I visited libraries and bookstores. Perhaps self-help sections have since improved on this topic. At the time, selection was poor.

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@monicabyrne13 @dragonfliesout What is evil? Define what you are referring to when you utter the word “Zionism.” You want to demonstrate a point—I am here for it. But first, I need to know what you are talking about when you say “Zionism,” bc the word is used nowadays to refer to many different ideas.

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2 years

RIP beautiful Amber. Our hearts are breaking.

Elephants and Tea

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Today's new article "Fight Stubborn with Stubborn" "It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I was supposed to be cured. I kept repeating these words to myself over and over again because I couldn’t believe I had to fight again and go through more..." Read:

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@TheRealTavie @emilynussbaum Omg! As I was scrolling this thread, before I saw this, I was thinking about the time I wanted to throw “It” far away, but I was afraid it would haunt me. I read it at about age 13, and I was so terrified of the story, I became literally afraid of the physical book itself. I

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@JDHaltigan The glamorization of mental illness is insulting to those who suffer & for their families too. It’s the same stigma, just inverted.

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8 months

Heard Guernica published a beautiful essay. Went to read it. It’s already gone—ostensibly bc the anti-Israel mob cannot hold empathy for the reality of a horrific massacre that has also led to a horrific war. To commenters: Kibbutzniks are not settlers, by the way.

Guernica Magazine

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“There was goodwill but not enough to straddle the chasm that divided us.” In Israel, a translator tries to tread the line of empathy. From @joannachen1 's essay “From the Edges of a Broken World.”

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@legroff I homeschooled after Covid lockdown and never sent my middle schooler back. I know that’s not an option for everyone, but I found the most gifted ELA teacher through a platform called Outschool. Check out her course offerings. Will post another tweet…

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@diorbby424159 @isabelunraveled No. Some of the most expensive shoes are the most poorly designed in terms of function and anatomy. At best, they are just shiny dollar signs glittering on the ground. At worst, they are destroying you slowly, joint by joint, vertebrae by vertebrae.

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@JenGilmanPorat

2 years

12. Ultimately, I left the field. My nervous system could not endure. But I learned a great deal, and hopefully helped some people without causing any inadvertent harm to others. Therapists, I learned for myself, aren’t mind readers.

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Was asked how I could write an essay for @brevitymag about @blakebutler ’s book when I haven’t even read #Molly yet. That’s part of my point. I wanted to invert the current trend of cancelling before reading.

In a Book I Haven’t Read, I Found Permission to Write

By Jen Gilman Porat Recently, my newsfeed featured a link to an article from The New Yorker, “Can a Memoir Say Too Much?” Instead of clicking it, my eyes snapped shut as if I’d stumbled across a de…

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Jen Gilman Porat

@JenGilmanPorat

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@olgakhazan “I don’t care what you think, but I do care how you feel, which is why it pains me to have just said this.”

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Jen Gilman Porat

@JenGilmanPorat

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@legroff Here’s her profile page. She’s located in Toronto. I regularly scroll through her course offerings—I have curriculum envy. Only time I’ve ever wanted to be in middle school again!

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@JenGilmanPorat

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@JoyceCarolOates Found it: “Similarly, the filmmaker researched the work of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who founded anthroposophy, a philosophy that encourages spiritual development (to put it mildly).”

Midsommar: What Inspired the Bizarre Folklore in the Film?

Here’s where writer-director Ari Aster got his inspiration for the film, which puts a creepy spin on Swedish midsummer festivals.

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