Mary CoughlinRevisiting the 1980s film American Dreamer reveals how misogyny and patriarchy were normalized as entertainment—and how today’s politics threaten to pull us back into that story. A bold reflection on trauma, power, and reimagining a culture of care.
Mary CoughlinDefiant response to the President’s claim slavery “wasn’t so bad.” Truth-telling is essential for care, justice, and healing.
Mary CoughlinThis gut-punching post explores how our silence—whether at the NICU bedside or in the face of democratic collapse—can become complicity, and why collective dissociation is a trauma response we must now disrupt with courage, connection, and care.
Mary CoughlinA trauma-informed reflection on the U.S. plan for Ukraine, the cost of coercive peace, and why true justice demands global moral clarity and action.
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