Can Art Help Survivors Find Their Voices Again?
Join Sarah McDugal and Patrisha McLean, founder of
Finding Our Voices,for a live interactive Zoom chat on breaking the silence through art.
We'll chat about:
- Patrisha's personal story of leaving domestic violence.
- how art and photography can help survivors break the silence.
- ways you can promote systemic change for justice.
- and SO MUCH MORE!
Patrisha McLean is a Maine-based photojournalist, women’s-rights advocate, and founder/president of
Finding Our Voices, a survivor-led, grassroots non-profit breaking the silence of domestic abuse. Patrisha is an author of three books, and her photographs are in the permanent collections of two museums.
Finding Our Voices gives women a platform to share their stories of dating/domestic abuse in order to help girls and women recognize, avoid, safely leave and heal from dangerous relationships, and to promote systemic change for justice and accountability.
Patrisha takes portraits of survivors and has the women customize the power and control wheel according to their experience of abuse, and distributes/exhibits these as bold downtown business window posters and bookmarks shared by police, food pantries, bookstores, libraries and retail establishments. She also hosts a weekly online, private, sister-support chat; a public, domestic violence book club; and is launching a podcast.
>>Grab your favorite something-hot-to-drink, and join us for this incredible conversation!