Current protest culture dictates that protest signs must be both funny and cute. So it makes sense that the WGA strike in LA has been populated with tweetable placards that are both. “Chat GPT doesn’t have childhood trauma” read one viral, albeit controversial example. “The idea that ‘childhood trauma’ means you have a unique and useful insight into the human condition, and that it is somehow a prerequisite for ‘good writing’, is one of the most horrid americanisms”, one person tweeted, which sums up my view on the trauma writing pipeline more succinctly than this newsletter.
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The trauma writing pipeline
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Current protest culture dictates that protest signs must be both funny and cute. So it makes sense that the WGA strike in LA has been populated with tweetable placards that are both. “Chat GPT doesn’t have childhood trauma” read one viral, albeit controversial example. “The idea that ‘childhood trauma’ means you have a unique and useful insight into the human condition, and that it is somehow a prerequisite for ‘good writing’, is one of the most horrid americanisms”, one person tweeted, which sums up my view on the trauma writing pipeline more succinctly than this newsletter.