I’ve had a lot of questions asked since I did my TEDxGlasgow talk a few weeks ago. One of them has been what was I wearing around my neck! Some people thought it was a cross but as they know I’m Jewish, they were confused I was wearing the symbol known as the Zia which I bought last summer on a road trip in the US, in Sante Fe, New Mexico There was a wallpaper border in the room that I was gang raped in made out of pink and grey bows, which I counted over and over and over […]
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Unbroken – Speaking the Unspeakable
On Friday June 14th I stood on the famous TEDx red dot and shared my story with an audience of 2000! Here is a transcript for you of my talk : Is there something holding you back? Something that nobody else knows, that you can’t speak about? When I was thirteen, I knew my childhood was over The Café I had this friend at school who was so cool, everything that I wasn’t and when she suggested a night out, I jumped at the chance Her mum was away and we both lied about where we were staying and somehow […]
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No more shame – my TEDx
If anybody told me that one day, I would be standing on the famous TEDx red dot in front of an audience of 2000 people to share my most intimate details of being gang raped as a thirteen-year-old, I would never have believed it But on June 14th, with a talk titled “Unbroken – Speaking the Unspeakable” that’s exactly what I did! For many years I was silenced by my own shame of being gang raped as I wrongly assumed that if people found out that they would be disgusted, look at me differently and not want to associate with me anymore. […]
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