Impact: Women Writing After Concussion

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Impact

Women Writing After Concussion

Edited by: E. D. Morin and Jane Cawthorne

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. Impact offers compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and other types of trauma. Contributors: Adèle Barclay, Jane Cawthorne, Tracy Wai de Boer, Stephanie Everett, Mary-Jo Fetterly, Rayanne Haines, Jane Harris, Kyla Jamieson, Alexis Kienlen, Claire Lacey, E. D. Morin, Julia Nunes, Shelley Pacholok, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Judy Rebick, Julie Sedivy, Dianah Smith, Carrie Snyder, Kinnie Starr, Amy Stuart, Anna Swanson Available on many channels, including Libro.fm.

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"The 21 contributors here are strong, capable, accomplished.... Yet their ongoing success was jeopardized by a concussion, a.k.a. TBI (traumatic brain injury). Through this anthology, we step into the realm of the contributors' confusion and turmoil. The journey is at once astonishing, fascinating, troubling and inspiring.... Impact is one of the best anthologies I've ever read. It is not a quick read. Much pain and beauty are in its pages." Doreen Vanderstoop, Alberta Views Magazine, June 2022 --- Impact: Women Writing After Concussion is an anthology containing the stories of 21 women writers reflecting on how their personal and professional lives have changed following experience with concussion. --- "Recommended reading.... we find it compelling and profoundly accurate." Concussion Alliance newsletter, March 2, 2022 --- "The personal essays and poetry collected in this anthology edited by activist writers Morin and Cawthorne explore how concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) impact women, and in particular, how suffering a concussion and TBI has affected the individual lives of the various contributing authors.... The anthology is divided into five sections, each bookended with poetry, and includes essays on, e.g., accepting the effects of injury, the challenges of healing, the life changes wrought by concussion, and the struggle for recovery of the creative process.... The essays, written by a diverse group of women writers, were selected with the aim of helping women who have suffered from concussion realize that they are not alone." C. A. Nadon, CHOICE Magazine Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Brainstorm: how we got here E. D. Morin and Jane Cawthorne Publicly Available Download PDF	x
I Where to Begin
In Exile I Draw the Tower Card Kyla Jamieson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Lost Jane Cawthorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
It’s Fine, I’m Fine: Selections from a one-woman show Stephanie Everett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
In the River Carrie Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Another Ordinary Day (after Joe Brainard’s I Remember) Dianah Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
II Am I Getting Better
September Kyla Jamieson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Un/titled Shelley Pacholok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Whet Language Claire Lacey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
I was in the back of a taxi that went into a car that rolled a stop sign Kinnie Starr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Losing My Mind Judy Rebick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
III No Longer the Person I Was
Two Years Post-Injury Kyla Jamieson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
How to: Consume Care, Caringly Chiedza Pasipanodya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
She Hulk E. D. Morin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
No Answers Alexis Kienlen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Concussion, Yoga and Resiliency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
IV I Dream of Swimming
Kind of Animal Kyla Jamieson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
In which skinny dipping temporarily fixes a life Anna Swanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Finding the Switch Amy Stuart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
A Wave of Relief Tracy Wai de Boer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
Appearing and Disappearing: a poet gets up from her table Jane Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
V Carried Through All That
At Least Kyla Jamieson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
The Next Hit Julia Nunes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
This is Normal Rayanne Haines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
And the Sky Was All Violet Adèle Barclay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Disconnections Julie Sedivy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Orca mother drops calf after an unexpected 17 days of mourning Kyla Jamieson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281

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August 30, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9781772125870

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248

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781772125870

eBook ISBN: 9781772125870

Keywords for this book

Concussion; Women Writers; Traumatic Brain Injury; Post-Concussion Syndrome; Recovery; Literary Non Fiction; Disability; Ableism; Healing; Trauma; Grief; Creativity; Caregiving; Sports injuries; Long COVID symptoms

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For a non-specialist adult audience

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