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Alex Head

Pre Orders for 1001 Accurate Memories Now Open

From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies

alexhead.com/bookstore

In 1001 Accurate Memories Berlin artist Alex Head presents patterns of self-repair amongst the ruins of ideas, relationships and human bodies. The author travels across space and time attempting to gain insights into class, disability and trauma through drawing, writing and photography. His investigation into traumatic memory tempts the author to suggest a shift from Germany’s professed ‘memory culture’ to a ‘traumatic memory culture’, in that traumatic memory is greatly more accurate. 

Consequently, 1001 Accurate Memories seeks to locate the reader back within their own skin by highlighting our differentiated but ultimately shared anatomy. 

Birthed from a seven year odyssey into blood, guts and tears, the work proposes that sensations in the body begin wider processes of understanding. By identifying the value of listening to the body in this way, the interpretative role of the human brain becomes more apparent. From this insight stems the ability to see trauma, memory and political propaganda as forms of easily manipulated emotional information. This leads Head to conclude that the primary way to counter such manipulation is the spiritual, physical and mental self-determination of the human body.

There are no special giveaways for pre ordering. The goal is to increase the print run from 100 to 150/200 copies. Each sale creates proportionally more and more copies!

Released first on #Mastodon

Dispatched April-May.

#books #publishing #memory #memoryculture #errinerungskultur #memorypolitics #trauma #artist #art #drawing #photography #newyork #glasgow #plovdiv #london #jakarta #berlin #florence #fedifirst #fedi #somatic #bodies #self #determination #selfdetermination
#human #emotion

Cover and reverse cover of 1001 Accurate Memories book project by artist Alex Head, on Plural Studio (2025). The Image shows a blurred black and white image of a grinning face turning towards the left hand spine of the front cover of the book. One can also see five distinct hexagons of red, blue and yellow tones arranged to the right of the cover image. The Image also shows the same blurred black and white image from the front cover of the book, now on the back cover. However where the descriptive text would usually be presented on the back of the book a large black rectangle has replaced it save for the caption: From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies
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Nox and the Pack :Fire_Enby:

Processing #narcissisticAbuse requires you to upheave your entire world. It requires you to recontextualize the entire relationship you had with the person who abused you. It requires looking at things again and realizing that this situation was in fact abusive. That making you feel confusion, hurt, sadness, and especially fear, were not a mistake but the intention.

You need to do all that while grieving the loss of the person you thought you loved. They were never real. And I really mean never. They were a fabrication created by a predator that exploited your psychological weaknesses to devour you like a lion.

This will sound crass to some of you. Many will think I'm exaggerating. But those of you who survived narcissistic abuse know: what I wrote doesn't even come close to capturing the horror of realizing that the person you loved never loved you back but instead only sought to dominate and exploit you as a source of narcissistic supply.

#narcissism#neurodivergent#trauma
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Envision Therapy DFW

Healing isn’t a straight line. It’s messy, nonlinear, and full of pauses—and that’s normal. Some days, the bravest thing your body can do is rest. These pauses aren’t failure—they’re integration. Learn how to honor stillness, release guilt around not “doing enough,” and how the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) can help your nervous system regulate and feel safe in healing at your own pace. #trauma #resilience #healingisntlinear #ssp

envisiontherapydfw.com/healing

trauma healing, nonlinear progress, nervous system regulation, SSP therapy, emotional exhaustion, rest as healing, trauma-informed care, burnout recovery, nervous system healing, somatic therapy
Envision Therapy · Healing Isn’t Linear—Some Days, Progress Looks Like RestHealing isn’t always progress—it’s sometimes stillness. Learn how to honor your body’s rhythm and how SSP can support you through burnout and trauma recovery.
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Broadwaybabyto

Medical errors kill, maim and traumatize. As a disability advocate, I hear stories of medical negligence almost every day. I’ve got more than a handful of my own stories.

Few are as egregious a this one.

A young woman seeks help for abdominal pain. At first she’s dismissed as having PCOS.

They later find a 25cm (!!!) cyst on her ovary and proceed to do a total hysterectomy and resect part of her bowel and appendix.

She barely survives, and when she regains consciousness in the ICU is told she’s lost her womb and has stage four cancer.

That alone would be difficult to deal with, but then she’s later told she doesn’t have cancer and the hysterectomy and surgical menopause were unnecessary.

She tries to focus on the positive (not dying of cancer), only to have the medical team change course again and confirm that she actually DOES have stage four cancer but in her appendix and lymph nodes and not her uterus or ovary. Pp

The gauntlet of emotions this woman must be dealing with is heartbreaking.

How a medical team can get something this wrong this many times on ONE patient I will never understand.

As always, try and have an advocate with you at all times. I’m unsure if it would have helped in this scenario, but we all need a second set of eyes and ears in the room.

Ask questions. Get a second opinion. Don’t be afraid to speak up if you feel you’re being mistreated. Reach out online for support from other patients and caregivers… we will help you.

people.com/woman-32-has-hyster

People.comWoman, 32, Gets Hysterectomy Due to Tumor on Her Ovary. Doctors Later Apologize When Biopsy Shows No CancerRhian Butlin, 32, underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy after doctors thought a tumor on her ovary was cancerous.
#medicalerrors#iatrogenic#disability
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Court Cantrell will not comply

It's Monday. Hope y'all are having a day! ("Have a good day" seems like a lot of pressure in these times.)

I wrote a thing about
euphemism
the Left
doge
Musk
the destruction of the commons
and trauma.

Here's the first part:
the Lack in the Left
courtcan.com/2025/04/10/the-la

#euphemism
#theLeft
#doge
#ElonMusk
#theOther
#theLack
#thePublic
#theCommons
#trauma
#boundaries

courtcan.comthe Lack in the Left – Courtney Cantrell's COURT CAN WRITE
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