A multidisciplinary poet-scholar and suicide attempt and multi-suicide loss survivor unveils complex anthropological threads that shape suicidal ideation.
Further, this poem notes that although lived experience is common and often necessary in advocacy, writing, and, these engagements ask a lot of survivors. For example, participatory action research centers the members of communities most impacted by that research. They may be part of the research design, data collection, or the dissemination of outcomes. Asking someone to re-give voice and life to their experience in such a way often requires them to pick the scabs of their deepest wounds.
Another example of the profound “ask” we have of others is among mental health care professionals and mental health advocates/activists who are trained in suicide prevention methods. Just because people are “experts” via their education and training doesn’t mean they can’t and don’t struggle with suicidal thoughts and behavior. In many cases, their work is intimately wound with their lived experience.
“For people who are marginalized, poetry is, indeed, not a luxury, but a language. I know it as a searing light through which we might brighten the path toward futures we were told we would never have. For me, it has often been a lighthouse in the darkness, . But it has also been the torpedo fire, the rocket blaze, the missile flame I have learned to launch in protection.
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