![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…
![Mental Health, mental illness, oppression, genocide, sexuality, two-spirited, Menominee, Native, justice, poem, Chrystos, feminism, LGBTQ](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/04/DA80CF9E-0C2B-4C5A-BF24-577D3DE7E534-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Chrystos is a Menominee self-educated writer and two-spirited activist. Chrystos’ work examines themes of feminism, sexual orientation, social justice, and Native rights. In her poem…
![Lost Voice](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/04/jf-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On December 6, Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, Debbie Major’s deeply-moving first-person narrative called Lost Voice: Discovering Life After…
![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…
!['Handling' the Mind](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/08/8299850204_6bba4815c5_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The song “The Handler” by the band Muse depicts the torment the mind undergoes when being forcibly controlled by an external force. The lyrics describe…
![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…