some thoughts about brazil so far: a reflection

i’m in fortaleza, ceará, brazli (city, state, country) for work, april 23-29. these are some things i’ve learned by observing, things people have told me unprompted, or things i’ve observed that i’ve asked more about.

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bessel van der kolk: on victims and collective memory

krista quoted bessel on saying this (though she didn’t say from where) in bessel’s on being interivew and it has definitely blown my mind.

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bessel van der kolk: on emdr and powerful eyes

ok this is going to be a weird one. you’ve been warned.

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bessel van der kolk: on individual and collective trauma

preface: the frame in which i’m thinking about this post has to do with how 45 and his administration is in the process of manufacturing mass trauma and the impacts that’s going to have and is already having on american and global politics.

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on the problem of real estate development by wealthy people

this is a messy string of thoughts that’s probably not going to come out in the right order but i figure it’s better for it to come out messy than not at all.

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