Rachel Taparjan discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, trauma-informed filmmaking and why Western media's portrayal of Romanian orphans is a hidden "antagonist" of the doc.
Rachel Taparjan's first feature, debuting at Copenhagen, sees the director and another woman returning to the orphanage where they were adopted, putting her on a path to confronting a painful legacy.
Generational trauma — the psychological and physiological effects experienced by subsequent generations of those who first experienced trauma — has become one of the most resonant buzzwords of our ...
As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...
There are a lot of big subjects that our culture has trouble talking about: wealth, death, addiction, religion. But one of the toughest has to be sexual assault and rape. For how common sexual ...
A university student thought she had finally found the courage to describe years of childhood abuse to a small circle of classmates, only to discover that one of them had copied her story detail for ...
When I think about what is discussed when talking about Indigenous literature, I often think about what isn’t out there yet or what there isn’t enough of. What do we need more of? What type of stories ...
Dark Dominion, a new Soulslike Game on Steam, combines a traumatic story like God of War with a World War I backdrop and Dark ...
Maki Kashimada's work is a fascinating exploration of the sources of our own cruelty and our level of individual agency when healing from trauma. Generational trauma — the psychological and ...