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Trina Moyles

Trina Moyles is a Canadian writer and freelance journalist. Her writing focuses on social and environmental issues in rural communities in East Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past three years she's been working on a book called Women Who Dig, about the lives of women farmers from seven countries in the Americas, East Africa and Asia. Visit her website, www.trinamoyles.com.

Body of WorkSeptember 15, 2015

Trauma Is Like a Snakebite

By Trina Moyles

What comes out of my mouth is the cry a dog makes after being hit by a car, a shrill whimper.

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