Kannetha Brown 7/1/25 Kannetha Brown 7/1/25

Water Poem

Kannetha Brown 1/23/25 Kannetha Brown 1/23/25

Film Recommendation/Research: The Conscience of Nhem En (2008)

THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EN explores conscience and complicity in the story of a young soldier responsible for taking ID photos of thousands of innocent people before they were tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia.

Kannetha Brown 1/23/25 Kannetha Brown 1/23/25

Paper Recommendation by my Mother: Survival During and After Khmer Rouge by Sara S. Brown, URI MSN

My personal life trauma experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime are described in this paper along with applications to Constructivist Self Development Theory (CSDT). This theory provides a basis for understanding the interrelatedness of biological and psychological self adaptation necessary to surviving and maintaining a consistent sense of self and the world. Five areas of self that were described in CSDT and which were applicable to my experiences of trauma are as follows:

Kannetha Brown 1/23/25 Kannetha Brown 1/23/25

Paper Recommendation by friend Diana Ho: Ethnic–Racial Identity Modulates Emotion Dysregulation and Alcohol Use Among an Adult Sample of Asian Americans

The aim of the present study was to investigate the moderating role of racial–ethnic identity in the relation between emotion dysregulation and alcohol use and related harms among Asian Americans.

Kannetha Brown 1/9/25 Kannetha Brown 1/9/25

Root Poem

Kannetha Brown 11/18/24 Kannetha Brown 11/18/24

Why I Stopped Writing, Again

I tend to withdraw when it all becomes too much. A lot has changed since this summer when I wrote you last, I believe in July or August.

Kannetha Brown 7/22/24 Kannetha Brown 7/22/24

Photographing Pain and Truth

I’ve always avoided taking photographs of my family because it hurts.

Kannetha Brown 7/21/24 Kannetha Brown 7/21/24

Visiting Gramma in Hilton, NY

Writing this with a heavy heart. Yesterday I arrived in Hilton, a town twenty minutes outside of Rochester, New York. I’m here at my grandma’s Simone’s house, alone with her and my step-grandpa Mike.