ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Responding to an unsettling and turbulent political reality, ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is devoted to maintaining connections.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Responding to an unsettling and turbulent political reality, ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is devoted to maintaining connections.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
The essays in ROOM 10.25 are as raw and urgent as any we have received. Their authors hail from Sudan, Palestine, Israel, Croatia, and the US. They write about what it feels like to be living a split screen. They write about how we split words from context. They write from inside a refugee camp in Gaza and from inside the federal building in New York. The post Overwhelm by Hattie Myers appeared first on ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
We can’t split something off when we’re surrounded by it. The same forces flattening Gaza are showing up here under different names—economic inequality, xenophobia, the rollback of human rights. I’m trying to bridge the divide between denial and collapse, to find ways of staying engaged without turning away. The post Splitting Genocide by Celeste Kelly appeared first on ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
My first day volunteering at immigration court began with a medical emergency. A man had collapsed in his wheelchair while DHS officers surrounded his terrified family. When I identified myself as a physician, they demanded proof before allowing me to help. In that moment, I understood what it meant to live in a country where mercy requires credentials—and where witnessing itself can feel like an act of resistance. The post My Home: Kidnappings in New York by Sonni Mun appeared first on ROO...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
My brother, Mamoun, was murdered in Khartoum. I write as a Sudanese psychotherapist, sister, and witness, carrying a grief that lives in my bones. This war has ruptured not only bodies and homes but our sense of self and belonging. To write is an act of refusal—a way to remember, to mourn, and to insist on life amid death. The post The Unseen Scars: Navigating the Psychological Landscape of Sudan’s War by Eiman Hussein appeared first on ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Joyce Pommer was born in Quincy, MA, and studied at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and the Art Institute of Boston. She has exhibited widely in solo and group shows, as well as at art fairs in New York and across the country. Her work is included in numerous private collections and was purchased by the Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum in Marshall, MN. Her work was also included in The Language of Making: Textile Study Group of New York, Art Folio 2020 book, and Bli...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Every spring, my mother dreamt of Crimea, and that’s how we knew winter was ending. Now, exiled from those shores, I still dream of its herbs, its sea, its air. Eleven years have passed since I last returned. For those displaced by Russia’s war, the longing for Crimea is both memory and wound — a repetition of trauma that we carry within us, and around which, somehow, we grow. The post Dreaming of Crimea by Oleksandra Kurbala appeared first on ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
This is a letter exchange between two mothers — one living in Gaza, one in safety — writing across war and impossible distance. It captures the collapse of the clinical frame, the limits of Western psychology, and the power of maternal love as resistance. In the rubble of theory, what remains is the raw work of witnessing — naming, refusing erasure, and holding one another through words. The post Mothering Through Genocide by Helena Vissing and Heba Al-Turk appeared first on ROOM A Sket...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Natasha Kinsella is an Irish poet and essayist drawn to the places where faith, silence, and inheritance converge. Her work listens to what the body remembers when language falters. It has been highly commended in the 2025 Patrick Kavanagh Award, awarded second place in the New Writers Poetry Prize (Anthology), and published in Abridged and Beyond Words magazine. The post Inheritance by Natasha Kinsella appeared first on ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
In late October 2023, Eyal and I began a correspondence. We generated two publications and a film about our histories. In the process, something began to cohere between us. Our dialogue revealed a common humanity. He was willing to understand and change, and so was I. On a personal level, we found a way to forge a bond. On a collective level, he is Israeli. He comes from that group and belongs to it. I am a displaced Palestinian who comes from and belongs to a group that is being decimated by...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
In Gaza, chronic trauma reshapes life. Stories, human connection, and psychosocial support offer resilience and hope amid unrelenting loss.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
