Intergenerational Trauma and the Armenian Genocide

Today (because it's already April 24th in Armenia) marks the 102nd anniversary of the date we have chosen to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – April 24th. April 24th, 1915 or Red Sunday was the night hundreds of Armenian intellectuals in the Ottoman Empire, teachers, poets, musicians, journalists, medical providers, clergy, and other spiritual, cultural, and political leaders were rounded up, deported, and most ultimately murdered by their own government.  Each year Armenians gather wherever in the world they might be to remember, commemorate, and protest together.  We remember because we were never meant to exist.  We commemorate to connect to our lost elders and pay our respects.  We protest to demand acknowledgment and even reparations.

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