47 - Trauma and Class with Diffwys Criafol

The Frontline Herbalism Podcast

This episode is an interview with Diffwys Criafol (she/her) a former anarchist organiser, mother and writer who is writing in order to process class-related trauma and how our social movements are so anthemic to working class people.

In this episode we discuss narratives around class, how they can flatten people’s experiences, concepts such as the underclass and how people can co-occupy several oppressions and desperate situations that are barriers to making life stable. We talk about how class and trauma are completely intertwined and what ‘recovery’ is meant to mean when in active trauma and when trauma is not just in the past. Finally we touch on solidarity and redistributing resources and how to challenge a class based society. Plus so much more!

Links & resources from this episode

• https://twitter.com/DiffwysCriafol
• https://diffwys.substack.com/
• No Births Behind Bars
• Herbalism, PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course

Books mentioned in this episode

• Chav Solidarity, D. Hunter
• The Enemy is Middle Class, Andy Anderson
• Chavs, Owen Jones
• A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie, Dan Evans
• Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman

Find them all at solidarityapothecary.org/podcast/

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