3 | Getting Comfortable with Discomfort: How Do We Actually Prevent Abuse?

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Trauma Town

Amanda Mustard

6 episodes

1 day ago

Trauma Town explores photojournalist and director Amanda Mustard’s navigation of generational trauma in the wake of her HBO documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life. After spending more than 8 years unlocking secrets of her grandfather’s serial sexual abuse, there’s still a lot left to unpack. How do you tell your family story in a way that embraces its messy reality and avoids sensationalism? How do we respond to sexual violence, and how can we do better? Join Amanda for a series of candid, vulnerable, and occasionally funny conversations about the precariousness of breaking cycles of trauma.

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Trauma Town explores photojournalist and director Amanda Mustard’s navigation of generational trauma in the wake of her HBO documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life. After spending more than 8 years unlocking secrets of her grandfather’s serial sexual abuse, there’s still a lot left to unpack. How do you tell your family story in a way that embraces its messy reality and avoids sensationalism? How do we respond to sexual violence, and how can we do better? Join Amanda for a series of candid, vulnerable, and occasionally funny conversations about the precariousness of breaking cycles of trauma.

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3 | Getting Comfortable with Discomfort: How Do We Actually Prevent Abuse?

Trauma Town

27 minutes 39 seconds

1 year ago

3 | Getting Comfortable with Discomfort: How Do We Actually Prevent Abuse?

Luke Malone – a producer of Great Photo, Lovely Life and expert on sexual abuse prevention – dissects how our society currently deals with child sex abuse, common misconceptions, helpful and harmful language around the topic, and ideas to help advance prevention efforts.

This episode was recorded before the release of Great Photo, Lovely Life.

Luke Malone is an award-winning journalist who writes stories and produces documentaries and podcasts about sexual harm. He has worked for outlets including TIME, The Washington Post, This American Life, Slate, FX, Gimlet Media, and Showtime. He is co-writing a book about child sexual abuse prevention and the history of U.S. sex crime laws with Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.