Soft surface to cry on | Silvia Almeida | Substack

The piercing silence of family trauma

Sentimental Value, Annie Ernaux and Intergenerational Trauma

Dec 18, 2025 • Silvia Almeida

Reading as an act of resistance

Ocean Vuong's Lecture on Formal Disobedience, Toni Morrison & the Politics of Books

Oct 8, 2025 • Silvia Almeida

On being traumatised but kept afloat by that one friendship

Sep 22, 2025 • Silvia Almeida

The walls that hold us

On Place Attachment and the Books I read this month

Aug 25, 2025 • Silvia Almeida

You aren't supposed to be digestible

On having life 'figured' out, Braiding Sweetgrass, Capitalism

Aug 2, 2025 • Silvia Almeida

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Decorative bodies

Mar 27, 2025 • Silvia Almeida

Breathing as an immigrant family

Apr 19, 2023 • Silvia Almeida

i was born on the edge of a lifetime

Sep 19, 2022 • Silvia Almeida

thoughts that required stumbling

Mar 9, 2023 • Silvia Almeida

Soft surface to cry on

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