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	<title>Violence UnSilenced</title>
	
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	<description>Violence UnSilenced: Shedding light on the epidemics of domestic violence and sexual assault by giving their survivors a voice.</description>
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		<title>Jean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I started seeing my husband when I was 18.  He was loud and rambunctious, but also very attractive, and I was completely enamored with him.  I admired him for his bold, brazen demeanor and his rugged good looks.  Mild flirting soon led to stolen kisses.  He was attentive, and made me feel like I...<br/>
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		<title>Calla</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Looking people in the eyes was always very difficult for me. Even as a young child, people noticed this and mocked me, particularly in school. Later in life I learned that the inability to keep eye contact is a sign of low self esteem.
Verbal and emotional abuse was the norm in my home. Though I...<br/>
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		<title>Gina</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The first time he hit me was two weeks after we started dating. We had been napping. My head was tucked up under his outstretched arm. When I rolled over, apparently my head caused a piece of the skin under his arm to be pinched&#8230; He went ballistic.
He accused me of hurting him on purpose [...]<br/>
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		<title>Z</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last night, I read something that Carrie wrote on Violence UnSilenced, and a question that I’d considered emailing her about was answered for me. But before all that, there was a little girl who grew up protected, and bad things couldn’t happen to her. Sure, the man who lived next door, who always...<br/>
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		<title>Jett</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Systematic/Systemic
Here now is my collarbone, which still slips uncomfortably as a result of being pinned under his knee for half an hour: &#8220;We have to talk,&#8221; he said to me, his face six inches from mine, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re really hearing me.&#8221;
Here is the back...<br/>
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		<title>Michelle Johnson Major</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/michelle-johnson-major/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My name is Michelle Major.
I am a mother, teacher and a portrait artist.
I am also a domestic violence survivor.

In August, 2008 my husband took a butcher knife and slashed ninety-four of my paintings before attempting to murder me by strangling me to unconsciousness. He strangled me, beat me, and...<br/>
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		<title>Wendy</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/wendy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I hesitate to call what happened to me, what was done to me, abuse.
When I was eight, my brother started coming in my room at night. He never raped me, never managed to get my mouth open, either, but it wasn’t because he didn’t try. For three years, two or three nights a week, he [...]<br/>
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		<title>Wednesday Q&amp;A: With warning signs so subtle and disguised, how do I see them and what am I looking for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[QUESTION
We&#8217;ve discussed what to do if you know or suspect that someone is being abused. But there&#8217;s another question. It&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve pondered often, but it was really brought to the top of the heap by a quote from a friend and neighbor of Carolyn Cox. The friend, Jim Wester,...<br/>
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		<title>Karl Erikson</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/karl-erikson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Karl, and I wear asinine sexist t-shirts to BlogHer.
The above photo is  me at three years of age, writing even then. I start all my goofy &#8220;Little Writer Film&#8221; videos with this very photo. It&#8217;s probably one of the last photos where my innocence is still intact.
See,...<br/>
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		<title>Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/sunshine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I think I need to write about it.  I think I need to write about it because it hurts too much to talk about it, no one understands anyway, and I think I&#8217;m going to explode from it.
I married a man who I thought loved me and cared for me and would spend the rest of [...]<br/>
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