The Buried Voice- Hermeneutical Injustice and Invisible Childhood Trauma — Pecan Philosophy
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The Buried Voice- Hermeneutical Injustice and Invisible Childhood Trauma — Pecan Philosophy
sometimes, in the small, secret part of myself where i tuck away my worst impulses, i wished they had gone just a little further, wronged me just a little bit more clearly, because maybe then i wouldn’t feel quite so crazy about hurting so much. without laws broken or lines crossed, women’s pain is madness.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann Nov 21, 2021
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.