On this episode of Subtext, Kendra and Rich discuss a recent YouTube video entitled Trauma is Trauma: A Mental Health Talk with Kevin Smith and follow up on a promise from a prior episode, #30, by discussing helpful books which address trauma, consent, improving yourself and the spaces around you, and more.

Trauma is Trauma: A Mental Health Talk with Kevin Smith | PEOPLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBvc7Ny4iUk

Kendra’s Reads

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker

Rich’s Reads

We Will Not Cancel Us (And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice) by Adrienne Maree Brown

Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather by Shawna Potter

Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice by Stoltenberg, John

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