Archive - Melanie Ess

Mourning Anas al-Sharif

As Israel trumpets its orgiastic descent into “nefandum”

11 mins ago •

And the inherited “stuff” that crowds the rooms in which we grew up

Aug 1 •

July 2025

Learning to Live from the Ancestral Dead

One of my favorite essays, reposted

Jul 6 •

June 2025

I’m running of out styling tricks

I’m losing my hair, and I’m scared.

Jun 21 •

and the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Syria and Lebanon and Iran and American universities and the halls of Congress…even my beloved family. All…

Jun 17 •

Medical Illustrations: White and Male

A testament to a supremacist basis of western medicine

Jun 15 •

“Write about Something Happy”

What happens when you perceive the fractal geometry of families and nations

Jun 11 •

A Poem about Home

for anyone who misses it

Jun 9 •

May 2025

"What about the good times?"

Family scapegoats, did anyone ever ask you this? Of course they did

May 23 •

Morning in Mineo

Some thoughts on less obvious aspects of intergenerational trauma

May 18 •

April 2025

Born to the Work

Intergenerational reckoning and healing the scapegoat

Apr 29 •

March 2025

A "Rainbow in a Time of War"

The 1985 film “Stranger At Home” documents a Palestinian artist’s unsuccessful attempt to return to Jerusalem, the city of his birth

Mar 26 •

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