Trauma and the Body, Issue 1

Trauma and the Body, Issue 1 presents art and short-form literature that explores how trauma manifests, transforms and is held inside us.

Tendrils is 66+ pages of curated visual art and prose that ask you to acknowledge and reflect.

Did you know our call for art and literature received over 1,500 submissions! The 60+ works we've chosen here are the ones we couldn’t stop thinking about.

Why? Because they show us trauma can be bold, quiet, surreal, humorous, the personal and ancestral, and so much more.

The selected works on these pages do not offer easy resolutions. Instead, they:

• invite you to sit with discomfort, tenderness, rupture, and resilience,

• and ask us to witness, so we can acknowledge and bridge our inner worlds with our shared realities. 

In addition, you'll find guidance and creative activities from a certified therapist. Her expertise will be a support as you're reading and taking in the art.

Featuring work by:

• Leah King

• Bruce Morrow

• Naila Francis

• Shelby Hubbard

• M. Lopes da Silva

• Megan Mosholder & David Clifton-Strawn

• Sasha Kelly Jackson

• Juanita Cox

• Bolu Adeniran

• thái lu

• nat raum

• Annika Klein

• Amanda Quaid

• Marie McCarty

• Leslie Holt

• Sandra Kluge

• Nia “Newt” Pipkin-Glover

• Ira Joel Haber 

• Jan Freeman

• Lisa Wilde 

• Rama AlFarkh

• Carol D Guerrero-Murphy

• Joanna Hoge

• Kristy Snedden

• Erick Alejandro Hernández

• izzy bulling

• Livia Garofalo

• S Maxfield

• Sarah Bachinger

• Teresa Camozzi

• Estelle Lewis

• Federico Muelas 

• Chanika Svetvilas

• Victoria Barnes

• Sheldon Wong

• Theda Sandiford

• Pauline Chu 

• Bo (Boram) Kim

• Peppa

• Sam Grabowska

• Hazel Yan

• Diana Raab

• Aiyana Sha’niel

• Olivia Laura

• Sarah E. Brook

• Richard LeBlond

• Shelby Fleming

• Regina Berg 

• Daun Daemon

• Maudie Bryant

• Heather Beardsley & Alexandra Carter

• Angie Meche Kilcullen

• Dana Donaty

• Neha Misra

• ocean

• Jacqueline Yvonne Tull

• Oriada Dajko

• Nakemiah “Kiki” Williams

• Annette Gagliardi

• Alex Younger

• Elijah Angelo Chavez