Tag: institutional trauma

• How Do I Celebrate the Holidays?

  How do you celebrate holidays? I don’t. Not anymore. When you are incarcerated, holidays aren’t provided by a calendar. They are wrenched out of the jaws of a numbing monotony heavy with the potential for violence. Some people celebrate holidays when they happen. Many do not. Did Sisyphus get a birthday when he got to…

  Robert Hiraeth

  17th September 2025

  Essays & Reflections

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