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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>Just a Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“But moooom, why can’t I go?!”
“Because I said so. I have my reasons, and I’ll tell you when you’re older.”
“Oh what, mom, were you molested or something?”
&#8220;No, I was raped.”
What started as a typical argument with my mother about not being allowed to go somewhere I thought I should be able...<br/>
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		<title>Amy</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/amy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children of violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=1035</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[She could hear him. She knew it was him. Who else would enter her home so late at night? Who else would disrupt her slumber in such rude ways?
As a little girl woken in the dark of a peaceful night she was frightened, afraid of what was to come. She knew the door between her [...]<br/>
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		<title>Andrea</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/andrea/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/andrea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=1033</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Moderator&#8217;s note: A young family member of mine went through something very similar to this. Experts tell me the Internet, cell phones, and smart devices have ratcheted up dating violence, abuse, and bullying among middle and high school kids to a whole new, unimaginable level. &#8212;...<br/>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Amber</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/amber/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/amber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child sexual trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence unsilenced]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=1029</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The summer before 7th grade, I spent every afternoon floating in Katie’s pool. Her dad was a contractor, so they would live in whatever McMansion he’d just completed until it was sold, and this one had a pretty spectacular pool. One day, as I dried off in the sun next to Katie, I told her [...]<br/>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>A word about the VU Anniversary Video</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/a-word-about-the-vu-anniversary-video/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/a-word-about-the-vu-anniversary-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News and Housekeeping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ketih Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Men in my town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence unsilenced]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VU anniversary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=1022</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I missed somebody and I feel terrible.
I am not a videographer. I&#8217;ve got a decent Macbook with some great software that came pre-installed, but before I made last week&#8217;s anniversary video I&#8217;d never so much as blown the dust off it. It took me all day (and many frantic emails to...<br/>
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		<title>Eileen</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/eileen/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/eileen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=1000</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to know where to start&#8230;
Do I start with the earliest clear memory?  Me at 6 years old with my oldest brother asking me if he can watch me go pee.  He is 11 then.  I remember clearly thinking it is gross and telling him no.  Of course, the no&#8217;s only work for so [...]<br/>
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		<slash:comments>83</slash:comments>
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		<title>First Anniversary Celebration, Violence UnSilenced* UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/first-anniversary-celebration-violence-unsilenced/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/first-anniversary-celebration-violence-unsilenced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News and Housekeeping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intimate partner abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=1003</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One year ago today, Violence UnSilenced launched.
I find myself at a loss for words, so I&#8217;ll just let this video do the talking.
Thank you all, so very, very much.
UPDATE: I missed somebody! I feel so terrible. Please read this.

If you would like to join these survivors, email your post to...<br/>
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		<title>Tanis</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/tanis/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/tanis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redneck mommy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shaken baby syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tanis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tanis miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the redneck mommy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=990</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a small town, there was a young girl, barely 17-years-old, who could be described as neither beautiful nor smart. She was just a plain girl, a quiet girl, the type of girl most people overlook; she was invisible.
Invisibility suited this girl fine. She preferred it as her weapon of choice,...<br/>
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		<slash:comments>226</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kristey</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/kristey/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/kristey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=986</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I just wanted him to hit me.  I needed him to hit me.  I didn’t consider that all the negative and foul things he’d said to me were enough to constitute me finally leaving.  But he never hit me, he just pummeled me with his words.
Before we met I was happy, confident, accomplished and goal [...]<br/>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Issa</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/issa/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/issa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual assault]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We met the first time when I was six, when his mother started dating my father. (Our parents lived together for a few years and married when I was eleven.) We didn&#8217;t see much of each other that first year, because our weekends rarely coincided. When we were around each other, I found him to...<br/>
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