Stigmatized
Wearing your pants low, being handicapped, being mentally ill,
having been sexually abused, being old, being sick,
being poor, being black, being Jewish,
not mowing your lawn, being fat, being an angry
outspoken woman.
Some things I say to make a point:
that one way of being
is not less digestible
than another.
That wildly-held stigmas
unjustly cause some to be weighted down
by others’ astigmatisms.
Sarah Rosenblatt is a poet and therapist specializing in intergenerational trauma. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and an MSW from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sarah has a husband, Craig, who is an artist and therapist, two sons currently in college, and a dog named Mitzvah who was bred to be her family’s very best friend. Sarah Rosenblatt was born in NYC and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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