Our vision is to create a reader about trauma and resilience that matters to people. A book that inspires, lives close to us, offers stories we can relate to and gathers insights and resources. A collection of voices that helps us orient trauma in a bigger picture and brings people into connection and conversation.

The reason we started this project is because this is a book we have been missing in our own processes, and because we think there is a need in our circles to take trauma out of taboo, silence and isolation into a shared space where we can talk about it, help each other and continue healing. We believe strongly in the importance of discussing trauma as it exists in a social and political context, of looking at trauma as an individual and collective experience, and of investigating the ways that dealing with trauma impacts our abilities to organize, create, take action, live the lives we want to be living and create the change we want to see.

Scarsongs is a project that aims to bring more grassroots approaches into the conversation around trauma, resilience and mutual support. It is a collaboration of people involved in The Icarus Project, Activist Trauma Support and the Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective, and links trauma related grassroots work in North America and Europe.

To read more about this project, click here.

To download a printable flyer of our submissions callout, click here.