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Artist: Julian Triandafyllou
Title: I (don't) feel safe
Welcome to the 8th piece of the Living Archive of Survivorhood of Trauma.
Below is a selection of works from our Arts Collective created in response to this month's cover.
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and my reflection spoke futurepast
unshackled from a shadowed drum:
who are you?
find the inner child
lost in sunken skin
encumbered by false prophecies
help the boy whose laughs hurt
smashing stained glass tapestries
seeing all as threat
and speak these words
i am whole
face me
and speak these words
i am whole
step forward unbound
into the dark
no longer faceless voiceless
but black bold bright
and i woke
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Artist: Ashley Karrell and Isaac Ouro-Gnao
Title: Rebound / Ibeyi (excerpt from #BlackBoyJoyGone film)
Date: 2022
Artist: Julie-Yara Atz
Title: "What if we were happy" hauntings
Date: 2024
Artist: Laura E. Fischer
Title: Hollow
Date: 2023
Artist: Isaac Ouro-Gnao
Title: help the boy whose laughs hurt
Date: 2024
