Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 13 segments
Can poetry help us heal from trauma? Q sits down with author and spoken-word poet Brandon for an honest conversation about mental health, sexuality, sexual assault, domestic violence, grief, therapy…
yes
That's such actually a really great question because I'm at a very pivotal point in my life.
in a few
months.
And I'm like, for a while, I'm like, I'm not going back.
I've done my time there.
I'm gone.
It's like, I love you.
You raised me, but you put me through some shit.
And it's like, And clearly it's not the borough that did it.
It's the people, the experiences, whatever.
But just I have so many memories and so many different things and like very intense things to happen to just somebody of my age and go through.
So it's like I held a lot of that in me.
Now I've healed from things that have gotten to me in the past.
But when I was leaving then, I wouldn't...
You wouldn't catch me saying, oh, I'm leaving to go heal.
I was just like, I just need to get the hell out of here.
But I was running away.
Realistically, when I look back at it now...
I was running away.
But honestly, it ended up being a great decision for me in the long run.
yes
That's such actually a really great question because I'm at a very pivotal point in my life.
in a few
months.
And I'm like, for a while, I'm like, I'm not going back.
I've done my time there.
I'm gone.
It's like, I love you.
You raised me, but you put me through some shit.
And it's like, And clearly it's not the borough that did it.
It's the people, the experiences, whatever.
But just I have so many memories and so many different things and like very intense things to happen to just somebody of my age and go through.
So it's like I held a lot of that in me.
Now I've healed from things that have gotten to me in the past.
But when I was leaving then, I wouldn't...
You wouldn't catch me saying, oh, I'm leaving to go heal.
I was just like, I just need to get the hell out of here.
But I was running away.
Realistically, when I look back at it now...
I was running away.
But honestly, it ended up being a great decision for me in the long run.
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