Vulnerability

To be alive is simply to be vulnerable. It is a condition inherent in being mortal, being embodied, being emotional, and being social creatures in a world with others. Erinn Gilson explores the meaning and significance of vulnerability, seeking to illuminate some of its complexity as an experience and condition.
Vulnerability has become a focal point in myriad scholarly and applied fields as well as a touchstone in popular culture and discourse. Vulnerability defines our condition as human beings our openness to being affected by others, our susceptibility to injury, our mortality, our uncertainty. Vulnerability underlies how we think, feel, and exist. To be alive is simply to be vulnerable. Negotiations with our own vulnerability and that of others shape our ways of life, both individual and sociopolitical. And we live at a time when a sense of vulnerability to harm is omnipresent, not just from physical conflict, but from misogynist and r