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What girls at the Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP) say: Some girls also find cutting or injuring themselves as a soothing form of self care. This led us at YWEP to re name what some people call ‘self injury or self mutilation’. We now call it ‘Self Harm Resilience’. We call it this because so many girls who filled out the Girls Fight Back Journal said that using controlled self injury was a practice that they said was an important form of coping. Girls said that they weren’t doing this to hurt, they wrote they were doing it to feel better. Many girls wrote stories of body modification, like giving themselves and their friends tattoos and piercings. Respondents talked about reclaiming their body through body modification. ‘Body modification can mean body autonomy to girls’ according to one journal writer. Other girls wrote about more complicated forms of self harm resilience like breaking bones or making cuts or burns on their skin. Rather than judge this as ‘bad’ or ‘dangerous’, we decided to use harm reduction as a way to understand this. We respect that girls wrote these stories of self harm resilience in the section of our journal that asked ‘how do you heal or take care of yourself’. Its important to remember that everyone uses Self Harm Resilience for different reasons. For example, Self Harm Resilience was identified as a way for girls to be in control of their own bodies. One girl talked about self harm resilience as being empowering because she was hurting herself as opposed to someone else hurting her. Self Harm Resilience can be a way to prevent or come out of disassociation. Some girls said that it can be a way to deal with being triggered because it draws you back into your body and into the present moment. 12
Making wounds visible What different types of wounds can you think of? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What ‘counts’ as wound and what doesn’t? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who gets to decide whether or not a wound counts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Page 5 and 6: Contents Self-injury is a common be
Page 7 and 8: What other examples can you think o
Page 9 and 10: You can listen to Ruta Mazelis in t
Page 11: Did you know that nearly every cult
Page 15 and 16: But how do we make these wounds vis
Page 17 and 18: ✬ ✫ Thinking about placebo surg
Page 19 and 20: Harm Reduction Harm reduction means
Page 21 and 22: Harm Reduction Ideas pulling and le
Page 23 and 24: How do you care for yourself? You a
Page 25 and 26: � hot showers / baths � a cuddl
Page 27 and 28: � a warm scarf or a blanket � c
Page 29 and 30: Rituals that include injuries or th
Page 31 and 32: Hurting yourself is not the problem
Page 33 and 34: How do you feel about hurting yours
Page 35 and 36: How did you feel while doing it? Di
Page 37 and 38: What is most important for you, for
Page 39 and 40: Do others know that you injure your
Page 41 and 42: Was there anything that felt good a
Page 43 and 44: What comes to your mind first when
Page 45: Bodies are landscapes of who we are
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