The Triggered Project’s Mission
Shattering the silence of Black and Brown men and boys who have been sexually abused. Nurturing the healing with the use of the arts.
The Triggered Project Believes Self-care for the Black community is a political act, which is the first step for social change.
The Triggered Project utilizes art as a method to express, and liberate the trauma stories of many men, and boys whose stories have not been told and deserve to be discovered and appreciated.
The Triggered Project works to nurture healing for black and brown men which we hope provide options to redefine masculinity and end the use to toxic ways of defining manhood.
Triggered Project is also a social impact and awareness campaign to build skills in the clinical community and to bring to light the experiences of black and brown male trauma survivors who are often victim to implicit bias descriptions.
The Triggered Project is committed to educating youth, and adults about the Importance of their mental wellness.
The Triggered Project Presents Triggered Life
How do you access the mind of abused black and brown men?
Triggered Life( formally called Triggered) is a multi sensory, multimedia, post-traumatic story. How exactly does Sexual trauma cast a shadow over the wholeness of black male selfhood? When the shared cultural values of black and brown communities demand that men suppress their vulnerabilities and meet with their psychology alone.
Triggered Life follows a day in the life of two such men, Ishmael and Keith. As these men relive their stories of abusive childhoods, they embark on a journey to define their own manhood and identify Ishmael and Keith are played by Keith Mascoll SAG-AFTRA, AEA and is directed by John Oluwole Adekoje.
The “Triggered Life” experience is a 90 minute long tour de force that includes a Grounding /Processing facilitated by Harvard University’s Roxann Mascoll MS MSW, LICSW
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CONTACT: Keith Mascoll, Creative Director
The Triggered Project
617-759-7465
Keith@keithmascoll.com
Website: www.triggered1.com
Triggered Life: A Requiem for Healing
A play by John Oluwole ADEkoje featuring Keith Mascoll. Keith’s testimonials written by Keith Mascoll. "Ishmael" testimonials written John Oluwole Adekoje, and Andrew Craig
Boston, Mass -- While the visibility of what we call “trauma” has become more tangible as of late, the visibility of black male trauma remains elusive. And as that narrative continues to be untold, the black male body continues to be objectified -- pointed to as either dangerous or erotic -- “a location for transgressive pleasure,” as Bell Hooks put it.
Triggered, starring Keith Mascoll (SAG-AFTRA,AEA), directed by John Oluwole ADEkoje, and set to a special 3 week run at the Portland Playhouse in Portland Oregon. The show will be accompanied by “the Nike Barber shop” Sneaker Art installation because Keith’s first form for therapy was Sneakers, “Sneaker Therapy”.The Triggered Project will also run a Virtual Inner monologue and sneaker art workshop with 10 kinds from Portland. Triggered Life began as a one-man show centering on Malik who is processing the psychological after-effects of childhood sexual abuse. First performed in open-rehearsal, workshop-style format at Dudley Library three summers ago, audiences were invited to participate in the development of the piece by offering their feedback. In a sense, Triggered is more than a play. It’s an inherently collaborative, multi-media, multi-sensory, empathy-generating story.Triggered did its first a mini run at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury Ma in 2017. Since then Triggered been done in Boston, off Broadway festival NYC, and Atlanta.
How exactly does trauma cast a shadow over the wholeness of black male selfhood? When the shared cultural values of black and brown communities demand that men suppress their vulnerability and meet with their psychology alone, what kind of masculine identity is constructed and how can we redefine it? How do we stop reinforcing a mythology that masquerades as nature? The hope is that Triggered Life invites us to explore these questions and their implications for our communities as a whole inspiring an open dialogue in which generations of stored trauma and silenced pain can be expressed and felt. By saying, “I will no longer hold this secret, I will speak my truth,” the testimonies of Keith and Ishmael show us how abuse survivors can begin to knit their subjectivity back together -- become real again. “ Young Black and Brown male voices need to heard. The question is, are we listening? ” says Mascoll, who received two Boston Foundation L.A.B. grant for the develpment, and who is a survivor of sexual abuse himself.
About the creators
Keith Mascoll Actor/Producer/Writer (SAG-AFTRA,AEA)
Keith is a full-time actor, producer, Mental health advocate and Sneaker head. The founder of The Triggered Project, Co-Host of the Living a Triggered Life Podcast, luminary for the Elizabeth Gardner Museum, and Co-founder of the Front Porch Arts Collective, his work centers around telling stories from the perspective of black and brown artists.
John Oluwole ADEkoje Writer/Director/Producer
John Oluwole ADEkoje is a graduate of Humboldt State University with a M.F.A. in dramatic writing and an M.A. in film production. He is national award winner of the Kennedy Center: ACTF-Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award as well as the 2006 Roxbury Film Festival Award for Emerging Local Filmmaker.
Roxann Mascoll, MSW LICSW Consultant/Producer
Roxann Mascoll is a Psychotherapist at Harvard University. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with a MSW from Simmons College, and masters degree from the University of Massachusetts in Nonprofit Management. Roxann is the C0-Host of the Living a Triggered Life Podcast, and Former President of the Greater Boston Association of Black Social Workers.
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