Recognize Our Power

About Jeannine Ouellette: Her memoir, The Part That Burns, shatters the silence on childhood sexual abuse and its long aftermath while celebrating the author's ultimate reclamation of her own humanity in all its wildness. The Part That Burns was a 2021 Kirkus Best 100 Indie Book and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award. In women's literature she’s received starred reviews from Kirku...

Laura Davis is the author of The Burning Light of Two Stars , winner of the Book Life Prize for Best Memoir of 2021, The Courage to Heal, and four other groundbreaking books. In addition to writing books that inspire, the work of Laura's heart is to teach. For more than 20 years, she's helped people find their voices, tell their stories, and hone their craft. Laura has been published in Pu...

Katherine Standefer, author of Lightning Flowers , My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life and Skin Hunger: A Sexual Reckoning. Standefer has published work in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The High Country News, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, New England Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Colorado Review, Cutbank, and many other literary journals, as w...

Sierra Scott is a survivor and the senior content writer and strategist for the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, The Rape Abuse Incest National Network aka R.A.I.N.N . She has published film summaries for R.A.I.N.N. on  Luckiest Girl Alive  on Netflix and  Leave No Trace  on Hulu and works a part-time position as an Impact Production Coordinator with A M...

Winnie M Lee is an author and activist who has worked in the creative industries over three continents. She is Taiwanese-American and raised in New Jersey. Lee studied folklore and mythology at Harvard and later Irish literature as a George Mitchell scholar. Her debut novel, Dark Chapter , a fictional retelling of her real-life stranger rape in Belfast. It's written from both victim and perpetrato...

Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. On this episode we discuss her book,  Split  (Alice James Books). She is winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the ch...

Josephine A. Lauren is a writer, activist, and the Community Organizer of Incest AWARE. They offer offer writing workshops, as well as trainings. During our conversation, we explore the incest that occurred in Josephine’s family and challenges reporting the sexual assault as well as her attempts to dismantle the harm that took place. We explore how incest has been left out of the conversation...

Deidre Olsen, writer Award-nominated writer and filmmaker. Deidre Olsen is a Canadian award-nominated writer based in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Cut, NBC News, Salon, Vice, Maclean’s. Shondaland, Narratively and more than 50 publications. As a young child, Deidre was a victim of child sexual abuse by a babysitter. In this episode we talked about how her parents wer...

Gloria Masters: Founder at  Handing the Shame Back Gloria survived being sex trafficked by her own family in Auckland, New Zealand and overcame horrific abuse in the 60’s and 70’s. We talk through her experience of being attacked and DARVO-ed by her family. She has worked through her trauma through therapy and now her life’s work is to help other survivors through her foundation, Handing the...

On this episode of Recognize Our Power , I’m delighted to be in conversation with Rowena Chiu. She is a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein and went to work for him at Miramax in 1998. At that time Miramax was at the zenith of its power. It was producing Shakespeare In Love in the United Kingdom. It would go on to win an Oscar for Best Picture for Shakespeare and Love. Within that similar era, ti...

Introducing Recognize Our Power with Kelly Wallace! I’m Kelly Wallace, writer, speaker and activist. I testified against my paternal grandfather in court in 1985 when I was just eight years old. I overcame childhood sexual abuse to help others like the 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men that are affected by sexual assault in the US. This podcast will introduce you to other survivors like myself who have...