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Ocular trauma in microgravity: In-flight diagnostics and extraterrestrial strategies for management https://www.surveyophthalmol.com/article/S0039-6257(25)00124-9/fulltext

Day 24: Yvonne Adhiambra Owuor
Owuor wrote "Dust", a novel that follows a scattered family's struggles with intergenerational trauma through a vivid tapestry of Kenyan history. Not only is it full of carefully rendered complex characters who both deal with their own issues and who are entangled in larger threads, but it also depicts a series of deeply personal reactions to and interactions with historical moments that give a gestalt sense of the painful history of Kenya both during and after the colonial era.
It's a gripping read despite not having a traditional suspense structure, where in the last third of the book every chapter seems to be tying up one more loose thread you had almost forgotten about, only to leave a little more still to discover, right up to the end. Owuor's skill at constructing such a detailed and complex plot and especially in navigating it to a satisfying conclusion is impressive, and her depictions of human foibles and struggles in the face of grief and not-wanting-to-know are relatable.
CW for domestic abuse, state murder, genocide, torture, etc.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Halfway through reading "Mister Magic" by Kiersten White and really enjoying it. I was intrigued by the horror premise and the thought of a nostalgic children's show with little evidence of its existence despite its many decades run. The clencher was that I heard the author was exploring her religious trauma after leaving Mormonism.
This description opening a scene just made me laugh out loud. "A man like mayonnaise in human form stalks towards them."
I…

An FPV #videogame wherein you are a trauma center doc trying to keep patients from other shoot-em-up games with injuries of varying severity alive, while managing your team of nurses and other docs. Alternate game: patients are coming in from a natural disaster, or a mass shooting. Difficulty level, e .g.,number of incoming patients, and severity of injuries, increases; while resources, as in sup…

The streets of New Philangeles crawl with Avoidants. Interdimensional husks with glowing green fog eyes, walking like crickets, made of intergenerational trauma and supermarket tequila and reruns of the first Saw movie. Only Super Empath can save us now. Quick, child! To her therapy-inspo Pinterest alt!! Flood her with prayers for help!!!!

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

„Krone“-Interview - Trauma-Psychologe: „Geiseln bestimmen jetzt Tempo“ #News #Nachrichten

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
TARRANT: From what?
ULTRA 2: She has undergone a severe mental trauma. We have placed her in a sleep cell to facilitate recovery.
DAYNA: What caused this trauma?
ULTRA 2: We do not know.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/205 B7B5

Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control for Continuum Robots with Application in Endoluminal Surgical Robotics
Mohammadreza Kasaei, Mostafa Ghobadi, Mohsen Khadem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12332

Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control for Continuum Robots with Application in Endoluminal Surgical Robotics
This paper presents a shape-aware whole-body control framework for tendon-driven continuum robots with direct application to endoluminal surgical navigation. Endoluminal procedures, such as bronchoscopy, demand precise and safe navigation through tortuous, patient-specific anatomy where conventional tip-only control often leads to wall contact, tissue trauma, or failure to reach distal targets. To address these challenges, our approach combines a physics-informed backbone model with residual le…

The women whom Jeffrey Epstein abused demand to be heard.
And their voices — long suppressed, but now emerging powerfully and with courage — could further fuel the maelstrom around Donald Trump and aides — who dig the scandal deeper each time they try to end it.
These are women who’ve been let down for years, at multiple levels,
by a government that was supposed to keep them safe.
Their families are victims, too,
since abuse sows trauma through generations.
A…

Epstein victims are a growing political threat to Trump
The women whom Jeffrey Epstein abused demand to be heard.

Hope and imagination aren't just a nice things. Authoritarianism is rooted in doom. Authoritarianism is naturally unstable. It's naturally weak. It's extremely complex and fragile. Authoritarian regimes often collapse rapidly and catastrophically. They keep people pinned in place by removing hope. They heap trauma on their victims because trauma destroys hope and reduces creativity. So hope and imagination are the most powerful weapons against authoritarianism.
The regime tells you that things can only get worse. The regime needs you to believe it. They want you to fight on their terms, so they can pick you off, or to run or freeze, so they don't have to fight you at all. Authoritarianism must kill the creativity of it's victims, because authoritarianism has already killed it's own creativity. When you respond with hope and creativity, the system cannot adapt.
It is not simply that we should imagine what could be because we may have the opportunity to create it. It is that hope manifests the opportunity to create what we've imagined.

She survived abuse and left her faith. Now, she gives religious trauma survivors a voice on YouTube.
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/23/she-survived-abuse-and-left-her-faith-now-she-gives-religious-trauma-survivors-a-voice-on-youtube/

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma' https://www.404media.co/former-moderator-sues-chaturbate-for-psychological-trauma/

Don’t look for the Charlie Kirk shooting video. I’ve done trauma ER work and …. Damn.
#CharlieKirk #shooting

The stereotype for this kind of self-narrowing is math/tech people avoiding humanities. That certainly happens, but I see it at least as often in the other direction: people avoiding anything that smells like STEM, telling themselves they can’t, building a whole identity around it. It comes out as this weird kind of shame/pride mix — “I’m not a math person” etc — which tends to hide some kind of earlier trauma: bad teacher, bad curriculum, gender role policing, who knows.

AI-Driven Radiology Report Generation for Traumatic Brain Injuries
Riadh Bouslimi, Houda Trabelsi, Wahiba Ben Abdssalem Karaa, Hana Hedhli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08498 https…

AI-Driven Radiology Report Generation for Traumatic Brain Injuries
Traumatic brain injuries present significant diagnostic challenges in emergency medicine, where the timely interpretation of medical images is crucial for patient outcomes. In this paper, we propose a novel AI-based approach for automatic radiology report generation tailored to cranial trauma cases. Our model integrates an AC-BiFPN with a Transformer architecture to capture and process complex medical imaging data such as CT and MRI scans. The AC-BiFPN extracts multi-scale features, enabling th…

Started watching this on Hulu and it's precisely my kind of dark humor.
Creator Kat Sadler described the show as “a family sitcom about trauma, but it’s more about us being narcissistic losers who are pathetically obsessed with what people think about us.”
#streaming #tvshows

Desde o dia do incêndio, qualquer mínimo cheiro de queimado me deixa de orelha em pé. É trauma que chama.

So if Mamdani's already Mayor, we can assume the Bedford Ave bike lanes will not be ripped out and we're about to get a whole shitload of new bike & bus lanes, right? Like, starting immediately?
Oh hang on, I'm being told that formerly indicted corrupt-af Eric Adams is still Mayor.

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/30/lit…

What is CTE? Explaining the disease referenced by New York gunman at NFL HQ building https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6522641/2025/07/29/nfl-new-york-shooting-cte/

Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
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"Memory, Trauma and Recovery" 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference
https://ift.tt/0UcZaOf
updated: Monday, August 4, 2025 - 11:41amfull name / name of organization: InMind Supportcontact…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes:
🎵 Mine Me Mine
#LauraJaneGraceintheTraumaTropes
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aGaP4f4H1IpryI1hv2xUh

Tumorigenesis as a trauma response: the fragmentation of morphogenetic memory drives neoplastic dissociation
Jordan Strasser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20363 https://

Tumorigenesis as a trauma response: the fragmentation of morphogenetic memory drives neoplastic dissociation
The mitigation of stress is a key challenge for all biological systems. Conditions of unresolvable stress have been associated with a diverse array of pathologies, from cancer to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, I unify insights from evolutionary and developmental biology with trauma psychology to present a novel framework for tumorigenesis which synthesizes stress-perception, tissue dysfunction, and the hallmarks of neoplastic growth. This view carries therapeutic implications, sug…

There's a certain thickness in the air
We can all feel it
When you've lived long enough in fear
You've learned to sense it
It's a trauma response
The wind shifts and stands silent
The sirens before
Hauling terror and chaos to the shelter
It won't be long now
The squall line approaches
#MastoPrompt - squall

Trauma é uma coisa que fica, né? Cheiro forte de queimado aqui e eu não sosseguei até me certificar de que era alguma coisa sendo queimada bem longe daqui, perdi uns dez minutos nisso.

Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)

Dolphins' Matos still in hospital for observation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45812633/dolphins-bayron-matos-stable-condition-remains-hospital

Consider this when you think of all the tourists that go to Tofino and the West Coast. One of the most famous resorts, Tin-Wis Best Western Resort.
“Old Christie, as it was commonly known, closed in 1971 and the children were moved to a new complex located at the site of Tin Wis Best Western Resort, in Tla-o-qui-aht traditional territory. New Christie Residence closed in 1983, making it the last of the Indian Residential Schools in the province of British Columbia.”
Most of the tourists have no idea the trauma that occurred there.
Strength and healing to all survivors and their families today, and every day. 🧡
#indigenous #canada #truthandreconciliation #nuuchanulth

Day 14: Zoulfa Katouh
Her book "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow" was gripping, devastating, and beautiful (CW for Syrian civil war, war crimes, death of family/kids). It's also somehow a halal romance, it has an incredible twist, and it engages deeply with trauma, fear, and surrounding compulsions.
I've read several graphic novels recently that focused on the plight of refugees, but none have gone as deep into the horrors of war, nor have they navigated the complexities of the choice to flee from a cause you believe in so well. Reading this book after the fall of Assad certainly feels different, even though the ultimate outcome in Syria still seems like it is in flux and a second dictatorship seems possible. It also serves as a grim look at what might be ahead for the US given current events.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.TO. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.TO/new
[1/1]:
- Tumorigenesis as a trauma response: the fragmentation of morphogenetic memory drives neoplastic d...
Jordan Strasser

Eu ainda não estava completamente curado do trauma do incêndio, mas com o retorno da velha piromaníaca ele voltou com toda a força, me fazendo acordar de madrugada por qualquer barulho.
E não sou só eu, ontem a vizinha me interfonou desesperada porque estava sentindo cheiro forte de queimado, mas era só alguém queimando lixo em um morro próximo. 😩

I just finished "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir. I picked it up because I found her non-fantasy novel "All My Rage" extremely compelling, and I enjoyed fantasy a lot as a genre in my youth but as my politics have changed I'm too disappointed to enjoy a lot of fantasy any more but I thought Tahir might not fall into that.
Although I don't think Ember in the Ashes is bad, it's definitely not what I was looking for, and I don't think I'll pursue the sequels, at least not right now.
Overall the writing was weaker in a lot of ways than All My Rage, and in terms of basic fantasy quality, the worldbuilding was noticeably lacking, the romantic subplot felt stilted, and the politics were a bit murky. Compared to what I felt was Tahir's deft, delicate, and very meaningful handling of trauma in All My Rage, trauma in Ember felt overused and thin.
I also recently finished "Black Panther Red Wolf" by Marlon James, which had excellent world building and (to me) a much more nuance in both romance and in handling trauma. The politics felt a bit off for this one too I guess, but for me it was an overall more enjoyable (if much more difficult) read.
#AmReading