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Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler (2003) tell us:
While individual trauma confers individual identity, the function of trauma as a ‘social glue’ holds groups together on the basis of ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, disease or handicap. (p. 12)
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Pullen, C. (2014). Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence. In: Pullen, C. (eds) Queer Youth and Media Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383556_5
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