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    Artwork for The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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    How trauma became a status symbol

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing · Sep 28, 2026 · 43 min

    We were told that airing our personal trauma in public would set us free. Instead, we got “the trauma script,” celebrity branding, and performative empathy. In today's episode, guest host Christine Emba talks with cultural theorist and professor Catherine Liu, author of Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering. In this scathing book, Catherine argues that our modern obsession with the…

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