![Umberto Boccioni, "Head Against the Light (The Artist's Sister)," ink on paper, 1912, bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.](https://www.thenasiona.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Head-Against-the-Light-The-Artists-Sister_MET-2-326x245.jpg)
Womanhood & Trauma Series — "Give Us a Smile"
Diptych: Origins, Neurodivergence
A shock medical diagnosis. A child’s awareness of her otherness in the neurotypical world. In her two-panel essay, Deborah Elderhorst ponders the gaps that exist between one person’s perceptions and another’s lived experience, even within the closest of familial bonds. This is a mother’s heart-song to her daughter. […]