Speaking Through Pain

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Pain falls upon us, threatening to rob us of our language. It is destructive, leaving traceable scars on our bodies and minds; it confronts […]

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Patiently Edona explained to me, “Evil eye gets unleashed when someone thinks ‘Oh this is good, this is nice.’ It will also happen when […]

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Emotion and talk about emotion are “simultaneously embodied and discursive ways of commenting on the possibilities, limitations, frustrations, and outcomes which an individual faces […]

The politics of nerves

“All of us are nervoz since the war.”

“How can we not feel nervoz after what we went through?”

Women who had survived the […]

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The activity of list-making is an eclectic process that enables us to draw on varied, fragmentary sources, and simultaneously negotiate their meaning. It allows […]

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my head is split

there is a stone in my stomach

I am worried

my neck hurts

my […]

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Headache

Worries

Sadness

Blood pressure

Nervousness

Pain

Sleeping problems

Stress

Back pain

Impaired […]

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“I get nervoz a lot.” Shkurta tells me, looking out the window onto the snowy farmyard.

I had meant to start small talk by asking […]