You're Not Alone

From From Our Voices: Art Educators and Artists Speak Out About Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgednered Issues:

This quote is from the essay "The Illusion Was to Think She Had Any Control Over Her Life" by Deborah L. Smith-Shank

"Trauma can also be caused by exclusion. We have all heard the stories of ancient times when banishment was an ultimate punishment...it is a trauma of omission. Adrienne Rich articulated this experience and brought it into a postmodern context: 'whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under inadequate or lying language, this will become, not merely unspoken but unspeakable" (Smith-Shank,144).