Blog Voices from Our Community

Read stories, updates, and reflections from artists, staff, and survivors. Here, we share the heart of Awakenings — one post at a time.

A person dressed in black stands alone in an empty room, bent forward with hands covering their ears or head, against a plain background.

Survivors and those who have experienced physical trauma can have a unique relationship with physical art. As an intern with Awakenings and an artist in

Simple black and white line drawing of a bird perched on a diagonal branch, with its beak open as if singing.

As a wonderful Awakenings intern and an astute writer and journalist, Emma Dempsey now contributes a review of Lindy West’s newest essay collection to The

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