Thoughts on Survivorship

Making meaning out trauma is painful, even decades later.

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Hi folks,

Your responses to last week’s interview with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford have been really touching.

It can be hard to know if I’m making an impact each time I hit send. Concrete evidence is what keeps me motivated to write to you every week. Thank you to all of you who took the time to write, comment, or mention to me that my conversation with Dr. Ford touched you.

Today’s letter is brief because June is hectic with multiple family birthdays¹. I’m sharing some quick thoughts about the reader mail I’ve received in the past week.

There were a group of responses that fell into the bucket of: I have not come forward; Call out culture has made me guilty that I didn’t come forward; I appreciated the nuanced way in which you positioned your question about the decision to come forward.

These reader responses reminded me of a thing I meant to say last week b…