On Brokenness, Junot Diaz, and a Big Wheel

My hard road to recovering a repressed memory of childhood assault

Ingo Maurer’s Porca Miseria! (a porcelain shards chandelier, 1994), Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, October 18, 2014. (Paddu Rao via Flickr).

There’s no denying that what was once just the Harvey Weinstein story has taken on a life all its own in #MeToo. While Tarana Burke has been working on Me Too as a social justice cause for more than a decade, it took the coming out of harassed and abused White women of relative…