Introduction: The Politics of Trauma Welcome to the Politics of Trauma, a learning, teaching and awareness-raising resource which explores the ongoing trauma experienced by women forced into sexual slavery for […]

Case Study: Japanese Military Sexual Slavery – Background and Context Between 1932 and 1945, at least 200,000 women, many of them from the Japanese colony of Chosun (Korea), were mobilized […]

Trauma in Context: “Comfort Women” Survivors Speak The conditions in the “comfort stations” were horrific. Many girls forced into military sexual slavery, especially those from colonial Chosun, served in these […]

Unresolved Trauma, Selective Peace: Retraumatization After the War When the war ended with the announcement of surrender by the Japanese Emperor on August 15, 1945, Chosun (Korea) was liberated from […]

Canadian filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung, prepares a special birthday lunch for a Filipina survivor, from her forthcoming film, Within Every Woman. Secrecy, Denial, Stigma: Personal and Communal Legacies of Trauma In […]

In the 1990s, after 45 years of isolation, a support movement for the survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery was born. How does one begin to find healing from such […]

Introduction:  The Politics of Trauma Welcome to the Politics of Trauma, a learning, teaching and awareness-raising resource which explores the ongoing trauma experienced by women forced into sexual slavery for […]

Case Study:  Japanese Military Sexual Slavery – Background and Context Between 1932 and 1945, at least 200,000 women, many of them from the Japanese colony of Chosun (Korea), were mobilized […]

Trauma in Context: “Comfort Women” Survivors Speak The conditions in the “comfort stations” were horrific.  Many girls forced into military sexual slavery, especially those from colonial Chosun, served in these […]

Unresolved Trauma, Selective Peace: Retraumatization After the War When the war ended with the announcement of surrender by the Japanese Emperor on August 15, 1945, Chosun (Korea) was liberated from Japanese colonial […]