Sonya Passi: We Need to Talk About Domestic Violence

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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One in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime, but as Sonya Passi says, this is not a gendered issue. It affects people of all genders and sexualities. Sonya is the founder and CEO of Freefrom, an organization working to financially empower survivors of domestic violence. She talks about the financial trauma that occurs and why we need to become more comfortable talking about domestic violence. Never miss an update! Sign up for our (short!) newsletter at www.LGBTQpodcast.com Join GLAAD's #AmpYourVoice campaign and make sure your voice is heard this election year. Click here to take the pledge to vote. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and is part of The Advocate Magazine.

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0:00.0	From The Advocate magazine, I'm Jeffrey Masters and you're listening to LGBTQ and A.
0:09.0	Today I'm talking to Sonia Passy, the creator of Free From.
0:14.0	Free From is an organization working to financially empower survivors of domestic violence.
0:20.0	The majority of sexual assaults occur in domestic
0:23.5	violence situations, which I did not know before talking to Sonia. And as she explains,
0:29.6	this is something that affects a massive number of people, of all genders and all sexualities,
0:35.3	and viewing it as a quote-unquote private issue is really the wrong way to think about it.
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1:11.6	All right, let's get to the interview without further ado. Here's Sonia. Thank you. I really appreciate it. All right. Let's get to the interview without further ado.
1:12.7	Here's Sonia.
1:23.8	I want to talk about your work with survivors of domestic violence.
1:28.7	But to begin with more generally, with the Me Too movement, there's in more and more conversations about sexual assault and sex face discrimination. And most of those stories,
1:35.5	most of those stories take place in the workplace and involving people's careers. With that,
1:40.2	are you also seeing a rise in awareness around domestic violence? Yes and no. Yes, because I think
1:45.8	people are really starting to prioritize women's issues, prioritize gender-based violence issues. No,
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