{"id":5921,"date":"2021-07-17T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T04:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insightexchange.net\/?page_id=5921"},"modified":"2024-04-24T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:19:33","slug":"voices-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.insightexchange.net\/voices-of-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Voices of Resistance was a project that documented four women’s resistance and responses to the violence they experienced. The project participants supported the development and prototyping of the interview process for Insight Exchange through the sharing of their resistance and responses to violence. The result of the prototyping phase is an interview process with clear protocols and steps that provides a structure for an interview that affirms agency, builds on safety and upholds dignity.<\/p>\r\n
These are their narratives of their resistance and responses to violence:<\/p>\r\n
Mishka<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/a><\/p>\r\n “I’ve tried to leave him that many times. I’ve left houses. I’ve fled and lost heaps of my stuff, I lost my drums. It was pretty heart breaking losing my instruments because it’s what keeps me sane; it’s my pulse and my\u00a0passion.”<\/p>\r\n Jan<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n <\/a><\/p>\r\n “I did a lot of behind-the-scenes thinking in my head. It was planning to manage the outcomes as best I could in order to stay as safe as possible. I did little things like buying the right brand of butter, even though it’s not what I liked, but it meant that he wouldn’t throw it at the wall, or at me. This was me taking back power and taking control to avoid the violence and verbal\u00a0abuse.”<\/p>\r\n The Woman Next Door<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/a><\/p>\r\n “Leaving is hard and scary. The complexity of everything you have to navigate on top of processing the abuse is overwhelming.”<\/p>\r\n Michele R<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n