Jina Moore

Sep 11, 2024 | harvardpublichealth.org | Jina Moore

In 2020, we randomly sampled adults in communities that had experienced a mass violence incident between 2015 and 2019. Among our findings: Nearly 25 percent of them met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD in the prior year— significantly exceeding the average in the general population, where 4.9 percent of people experience PTSD in any given year. We also found that people with high levels of social support were half as likely to experience PTSD compared to those without that support.

Apr 5, 2024 | jinamoore.com | Jina Moore

In the March issue of Guernica, I published “From the Edges of a Broken World,” a personal essay by Joanna Chen. Many critics have said the essay normalized the violence Israel has unleashed in Gaza. I disagree. I saw the piece as an example of the difficult work that Guernica is known for: capturing, with complexity and nuance, how such violence is normalized, and how a violent state extracts complicity from its citizens.

Mar 5, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Jina Moore

It’s hard to imagine introducing this issue by starting anywhere other than the four-line poem, “Glaze,” by Isra Hassan. It chronicles, essentially, the fall — the leap? — of a glaze into the fire that will transform it. But that question haunts far past the poem’s 30 words: What do we choose, and how do we live with what we witness?

Feb 5, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Jina Moore

Somehow, this singular color has woven through our work this month.

Feb 5, 2024 | everand.com | Jina Moore

Somehow, this singular color has woven through our work this month. Alexander Lumans thusly conjures it (even embracing the eponymous Taylor Swift album) as a centerpiece”: “Red, the color of state clay and C&Cs and fire engines and cherry blossom tips and Xannies and her Beamer and lakes of blood and candy apples and stop signs and hearts and the lightning-strewn sky on the cover of (and other things I can’t think of right now).”