Many people use writing for catharsis. They do it privately, in their journals, and never look at it again. Or they make art out of their suffering, and share it with others in the hopes that their readers will find comfort in their work. Writing about pain and suffering is a way to come to terms with it, make sense of what happened, understand yourself, and even convey to others what it is to be stigmatised, isolated, mistreated by systematic forces. It brings people together; it can act as ...
