How Can I Tell You?

Stella Mayerhoff and Rebecca Heron tell stories about the
unbearable weight of truth. ️Radio Story: In Ways I Never Could
Have Imagined by Stella Mayerhoff In the Democratic Republic of
Congo, out in the field studying bonobos, Stella has to get a local
man back home by lying to him, saying his baby is sick, when in
fact, his baby has already died. Keywords: Congo field research,
bonobos, primatology, grief in the jungle, moral dilemma,
scientific fieldwork, malaria loss, human conflict abroad Workshop
Story: Unfolding by Rebecca Heron (Content note: sexual assault,
emotional abuse, child sexual abuse.) In a Zoom session for Kevin’s
online storytelling workshop, Rebecca considers how her uncle, a
victim of child sexual abuse never shared his story and she feels
holding that in killed him, so she shares her own story of her own
survival of sexual abuse.  Keywords: trauma memory,
dissociation, childhood coping, sexual assault survival,
storytelling workshop, inherited pain, silence and disclosure
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