A survivor of abuse once told me, “The more we talk, the more we’re healed, and we see it as history instead of what is still going on.”
Domestic violence is not something that happens to only a few people; it’s widespread. About 35% of women and 28% of men in the U.S. have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
Why don’t we know more know about it? Shhhhhh. It’s a secret. People feel shame for their abuse. They feel as if they’ve done something wrong. They feel as if they will be judged, and found wanting, if others know about it.
It is time for the secrecy to stop. We can tell our stories, reclaim our power, use our experiences to help, to heal, to demand change in our world.
We’ll begin Season Two with the series “Fight for Justice” about Tracey Thurman, who had to sue an entire city in the 1980s to hold the police responsible for allowing her ex-husband to stalk and attack her despite her requests for police involvement in advance.
Tracey was a young married mother when her husband, Buck gradually escalated from intermittent slaps to deadly violence.
Tracey’s story will help us examine how society and law enforcement might fail targets of domestic violence.
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Promos:
Getting Off Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-off/id1309689589?mt=2
Suspect Convictions https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-off/id1309689589?mt=2
2.9 Fight for Justice: Whatever Happens, Happens in Tracey v. City of Torrington
2.8 Fight for Justice: Unequal Protection and the 14th Amendment
2.7 Fight for Justice: What about the Baby?
2.6 Targeted Topic: Restraining Orders – Worth the Paper They’re Written On?
2.5 Fight for Justice: The Trials of Buck
2.4 Fight for Justice: The Aftermath
2.3 Why Did She Stay? The Leaving Process and Media Messages about Love Final.
2.2 Fight for Justice: I Will Get You and I Will Hurt You
1.20 Fight for Justice: Looking Toward Season Two (Season Finale)
1.19 Missy, We Won't Forget (Case Wrap-Up)
1.18 Targeted Topic: Why Do Abusers Stay? With Kate, Ignorance Was Bliss podcast
1.17 Targeted Topic: When the SPCA Saved a Child
1.16 Roundtable
1.15 Child Abuse Laws: Not a Story of Failure, but of Progress & Hope
1.14 No Longer in the Shadows: Child Abuse
1.13 Keeping Families Together
1.12 On the Banks of the Nile: The Verdict & Aftermath
1.11 Plumb Wild: The Mother's Defense
1.10 The Stepfather's Defense
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