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  • The Normalization of Trauma-Inducing Behavior The Normalization of Trauma-Inducing Behavior
    by Derrick Jensen | No one emerges from trauma unscarred. Having been severely traumatized, it becomes the work of at least a lifetime to de-normalize the trauma—to recognize it for the aberration it is—and to begin to re-inhabit your body, your senses, your mind, to re-inhabit relationships, to re-inhabit a world...
  • MTV: Smut-Peddlers or Eco-Activists? MTV: Smut-Peddlers or Eco-Activists?
    In 2001, two friends poured lighter fluid on 13-year-old Jason Lind’s legs and feet and set him on fire in Torrington, Connecticut. In 2003, a 26-year-old Australian placed lit firecrackers between his buttocks.