Stella Mayerhoff and Rebecca Heron tell stories about the unbearable weight of truth.
šļøRadio Story: In Ways I Never Could Have Imagined by Stella Mayerhoff
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, out in the field studying bonobos, Stella has to get a local man back home by lying to him, saying his baby is sick, when in fact, his baby has already died.
Keywords: Congo field research, bonobos, primatology, grief in the jungle, moral dilemma, scientific fieldwork, malaria loss, human conflict abroad
š»Workshop Story: Unfolding by Rebecca Heron
(Content note: sexual assault, emotional abuse, child sexual abuse.) In a Zoom session for Kevinās online storytelling workshop, Rebecca considers how her uncle, a victim of child sexual abuse never shared his story and she feels holding that in killed him, so she shares her own story of her own survival of sexual abuse.
Keywords: trauma memory, dissociation, childhood coping, sexual assault survival, storytelling workshop, inherited pain, silence and disclosure
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