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Program HighlightsFeaturing survivor readings and related performances.Ongoing Survivor ReadingsEvery half hour, NYC survivor stories will be read from noon April 21 to noon April 22Survivor Karen Carroll, featured in March 20 People magazineNY resident Carroll was raped by her estranged husband after he broke into her home. In the hospital, her nightmare continued. Now she is an associate director of the Bronx Sexual Assault Response Team.The NiteStar Program/STAR TheatreThe NiteStar Program/STAR Theatre is an award-winning HIV-prevention and teen-run theatre program. For SAYSO! the teens wrote and produced a piece addressing different forms of sexual violence in their lives. Survivor O’Brien Dennis, Author of The Cries of MenDennis is one of the rare male survivors to publicly disclose his experiences of sexual violence as a child and teenager. He received death threats after his book, The Cries of Men, discussed how homophobia in Dancehall culture keeps rape enshrouded in silence.Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)GEMS is the only agency in NYC providing specific services to commercially exploited young women. These survivors created a spoken word performance based on their own stories of escaping childhood sexual abuse only to be raped on the streets.Take Back the NewsNYC schoolteacher Emily Brandt began a local print project that has grown out of her kitchen into an international movement of survivors going public in their own words. Brandt will read some of the NYC-based stories. |
Featured Artist:
Marta Sanchez
SAYSO 2008 Album 2
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