Ep 93: Trauma Responses & Tupac Conspiracies

Money is back for another solo episode while Nikeeta works an overnight shift somewhere in the bowls of Upstate New York. Money explains what a trauma response is, and 5 domains in which they manifest. For the topic, she shares some conspiracy theories that gave her a good laugh on twitter and some she even subscribes to herself. We celebrate Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah as #QueerWOC of the week and ask hard questions about deal breakers when we all are one emergency away from financial ruin. Intro by TRUTH of Mother Nature. If you love the intro, listen to their new album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0KWoevXqscd4eMWNZpodAE?si=l67fMsjnQUOKuZ89QtCZzA Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on all your favorite platforms except for spxtify Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week 00:06:52 Co-Founder & Executive director of UK Black Pride Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah @ladyphyll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_XJYA74_Do Community Contributors 00:15:36 Shout out to the new patrons Stephanie, Zoe, Thank you, Hector Sandy upped their pledge Small Town Shout outs - Cobleskill, NY / Attleboro, MA / Carmel, IN Mental Moment with Money 00:18:57 What is a trauma response? Money talks through the 4 paths reacting to trauma can take, and the 5 domains of immediate and delayed responses to trauma. A trauma response is any immediate or delayed reaction to a traumatic event (remember, trauma is anything that overwhelms your full faculties to cope) that is directly tied to attempting to cope with that event. Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn (children mostly, but definitely can manifest in adults) Emotional Reactions Cognitive Reactions Physical Reactions Behavioral Reactions Existential Reactions https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207191/table/part1_ch3.t1/?report=objectonly Word 01:04:50 None this episode Topic 01:42:22 Money was thoroughly entertained by conspiracy theories on twitter. Here are some of her faves. Check out the Tupac episode of “Conspiracy Theories” here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5IkaIIjTy9ZMB744nTjmgw Curved Chronicle 00:55:18 Is someone being houseless a dealbreaker?