Morgan Times began with a question about names — who gets to keep theirs, who is forced to give it up. This thread starts somewhere quieter and harder: with what is left after. After the institution closes ranks. After the police are called. After you win the argument and lose the sleep.
For every dispatch in this paper that asks who is responsible, there is a private aftermath that no investigation files away: the trust that does not come back, the empathy you went looking for and did not find. This Strang is for that aftermath — hurt named plainly, and healing pursued honestly. Not therapy-speak. The real thing: what happened, what it cost, and how a person carries it and keeps going.
Dispatches I’m seeking for this thread:
- From the aftermath. You were silenced, investigated, or made to feel like the threat. What did it do to you — and what are you doing with it now?
- From the work of healing. You found something that helped — a practice, a person, a community, a refusal. Tell us what it was, without the gloss.
- From the other side of trust. You once trusted an institution to protect you, and it didn’t. Where did that trust go, and what replaced it?
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