![The Power of Empathy (not sympathy)](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/The-Power-of-Empathy-470x140.png?x81652)
In this animated RSA Short, Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really…
![Jeremy](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/khad.-pic-470x140.png?x81652)
The content of this song was based on a true story: following the experience of a boy named Jeremy who underwent emotional trauma, likely had…
![Don't Swallow the Cap](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/dont-swallow-the-cap-470x140.png?x81652)
Music By: The National The National’s music can be interpreted in many ways. In this particular song, they capture feelings of pain and emotional discomfort—resonating…
![Artistic Japanese Outsider, Kiyoshi Yamashita](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/arts-and-culture-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Kiyoshi Yamashita, considered to be an ‘autistic savant’, was a Japanese outsider artist who spent much of his life wandering as a vagabond throughout Japan.
![What the tweet could not fit – for Tyler](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/arthur_leipzig_brooklyn_bridge_1946-470x140.jpg?x81652)
A powerful piece about the suicide of Tyler Clementi whose roommate secretly filmed him with another boy and posted the film on-line in 2010. The exposure…
![Unconscious Anxiety](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/ua_paris-470x140.jpg?x81652)
This piece, as well as other installations by Chiharu Shiota, evoke a sense of emotion in the threads that cocoon and entangle various objects and…
![Night Still Comes](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/01/arts-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Neko Case knows of what she sings. Here she performs one of the tracks from her unflinching new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder…
![Aimee Mullins: My 12 pairs of legs](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/01/aimee-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Paralympic athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins, wants to change the way you think about amputees. She has a dozen pairs of prosthetic legs, each…
![No More Sorry](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/01/imagesCAY2DVMS-276x140.jpg?x81652)
Music by Bloody Valentine. Singer Bilinda Butcher expresses and confronts the abuse she faced in childhood.