![The logo of the Trauma and Mental Health Report Podcast: A brain with a microphone close to it](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/04/article-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Amidst the current uprising in Iran, led by its courageous and resilient women, many other human rights related concerns have also begun to be brought…
![Black and white image of a woman looking out a window](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/10/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Stadiums fill up with people to see what’s going to happen between the lines. But life isn’t only about visible realities. There are invisible and…
![Safe Restrooms Still Needed for Transgender People](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/01/AR-_-Article-1-_-Feature-Image-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Universities across Canada, such as Carleton University and the University of Toronto, have established gender-neutral washrooms on campus to create safe spaces for members of…
![In a Place We Call Home](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/12/Grassy-Narrows-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Grassy Narrows First Nation in Northern Ontario, Canada, has been in the media spotlight for decades regarding mercury contamination from a nearby chemical plant of…
![Perpetrators of Violence](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/09/Leon-Golub-_-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Leon Golub’s powerful paintings present visual images of man’s inhumanity to man, abuse of power, violence, and war. Painted more than thirty years ago, his…
![Requiem](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Tree-_-geralt-_-Pixaby-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The poem ‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova documents the trauma and suffering of the Russian people under Joseph Stalin. The poem was conceived as she waited…
![Why Are We Still Sterilizing Women with Disabilities?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/Feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
A recent study, conducted by the Washington-based group Disability Rights International, found that the sexual abuse and forced sterilization of Mexican women with psychological disabilities…
![Refugee System Perpetuates Trauma for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/05/Feature2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Until recently, Montgomry Danton was living on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, where his status as a gay man put him at daily risk…
![Crisis Pregnancy Centers Traumatize Women Through Deception](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/04/Feature1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush enacted a policy allowing faith-based organizations to receive government grants to provide social services. America’s Crisis Pregnancy Centers…