[ { "start": 0.0, "end": 10.8, "text": " Hello everyone, this is Elizabeth Campbell, president of USU." }, { "start": 10.8, "end": 19.76, "text": " I'm the host of this podcast, which is called Future Casting with Utah State." }, { "start": 19.76, "end": 24.400000000000002, "text": " Today I'm talking to Rachel Louise Snyder and Jill Anderson above what it takes to" }, { "start": 24.400000000000002, "end": 29.400000000000002, "text": " successfully address sexual and domestic violence in our communities." }, { "start": 29.4, "end": 34.339999999999996, "text": " Jill is the author of No Visible Bruses, but we don't know about domestic violence" }, { "start": 34.339999999999996, "end": 35.66, "text": " can kill us." }, { "start": 35.66, "end": 40.4, "text": " And the keynote speaker for the Northern Utah Conference to End Violence at USU's Logan" }, { "start": 40.4, "end": 42.7, "text": " campus on May 29th." }, { "start": 42.7, "end": 47.8, "text": " Jill Anderson is the CEO and Executive Director of CAPSA, which she will describe for us," }, { "start": 47.8, "end": 52.519999999999996, "text": " which is a non-profit domestic violence sexual abuse and rape recovery center serving" }, { "start": 52.519999999999996, "end": 54.4, "text": " cash county in the Bear Lake area." }, { "start": 54.4, "end": 60.64, "text": " So welcome to both of you and thank you Rachel for joining us today and especially thank" }, { "start": 60.64, "end": 67.94, "text": " you for joining us at our conference to End Violence, which we feel is a really important" }, { "start": 67.94, "end": 75.16, "text": " part of what we do as a regional public service university is really keep the attention" }, { "start": 75.16, "end": 77.4, "text": " on things that are important to our community." }, { "start": 77.4, "end": 85.96000000000001, "text": " So I might start with a question and ask each of you has worked around and with and looking" }, { "start": 85.96000000000001, "end": 88.44000000000001, "text": " at domestic violence." }, { "start": 88.44000000000001, "end": 92.4, "text": " And I might ask you each to do just sort of an introduction to who you are with that" }, { "start": 92.4, "end": 95.08000000000001, "text": " context, with that domestic violence context." }, { "start": 95.08000000000001, "end": 98.24000000000001, "text": " How did you get here and what have you done?" }, { "start": 98.24000000000001, "end": 99.88000000000001, "text": " And we'll start with Rachel." }, { "start": 99.88000000000001, "end": 101.52000000000001, "text": " Well, thank you for having me." }, { "start": 101.52000000000001, "end": 107.08000000000001, "text": " It's really a pleasure and I have come recently to the joys of Utah just in the last couple" }, { "start": 107.08, "end": 112.64, "text": " of years visited and I just I'm super excited to come back to return and it's just a beautiful" }, { "start": 112.64, "end": 116.28, "text": " state and you have people doing incredible work in Utah." }, { "start": 116.28, "end": 117.28, "text": " We do." }, { "start": 117.28, "end": 118.28, "text": " We do." }, { "start": 118.28, "end": 120.28, "text": " So that's really exciting to me." }, { "start": 120.28, "end": 125.44, "text": " One of the great benefits I get in my life is that I get to be able to go around and see" }, { "start": 125.44, "end": 129.16, "text": " all the exciting new work that people are doing in this area." }, { "start": 129.16, "end": 134.36, "text": " So I mean, I came to domestic violence sort of late in my career." }, { "start": 134.36, "end": 141.96, "text": " I'd been doing stories of human rights abuses and violence from around the world." }, { "start": 141.96, "end": 148.24, "text": " And so I really hadn't thought much about domestic violence, which is ironic because I did" }, { "start": 148.24, "end": 151.4, "text": " have some violence in my background as a kid." }, { "start": 151.4, "end": 155.92000000000002, "text": " I wrote a memoir that came out fairly recently called Women Willy Barred Women We Burned" }, { "start": 155.92000000000002, "end": 157.92000000000002, "text": " and which I talk a little bit about this." }, { "start": 157.92, "end": 164.42, "text": " But even as someone who has spoken to so many other people about the violence in their" }, { "start": 164.42, "end": 169.6, "text": " lives, I really didn't make the connections in my own life until I was really starting" }, { "start": 169.6, "end": 172.39999999999998, "text": " to write about my early years." }, { "start": 172.39999999999998, "end": 178.6, "text": " So I was lucky enough to meet a woman who her name is Cezanne Dubuce." }, { "start": 178.6, "end": 185.07999999999998, "text": " She works in Massachusetts who has been working in the domestic violence sphere for four decades" }, { "start": 185.07999999999998, "end": 186.88, "text": " now, almost four decades." }, { "start": 186.88, "end": 193.4, "text": " And really walked me through all of the myth around domestic violence, right?" }, { "start": 193.4, "end": 199.2, "text": " Why we shouldn't be asking, you know, why doesn't that person just leave the ways in which" }, { "start": 199.2, "end": 206.2, "text": " we criminalize victims, the ways in which we children bear the brunt of abuse, but also" }, { "start": 206.2, "end": 209.48, "text": " like that there are things that we can do to change it." }, { "start": 209.48, "end": 211.12, "text": " And there are things that we can do to address it." }, { "start": 211.12, "end": 217.68, "text": " So I've kind of made it my sort of full crumb upon which my journalistic career spins," }, { "start": 217.68, "end": 222.84, "text": " trying to bring this message to our communities that we don't actually have to live with this" }, { "start": 222.84, "end": 223.84, "text": " type of violence." }, { "start": 223.84, "end": 224.84, "text": " You don't." }, { "start": 224.84, "end": 231.12, "text": " And Jill, you're like the perfect segue because you focus on your community and our community." }, { "start": 231.12, "end": 236.24, "text": " I like to think that most people in this area, right until we call it Cash Valley, and" }, { "start": 236.24, "end": 242.28, "text": " it is in fact a pretty long skinny valley with maybe five or six major towns in it that" }, { "start": 242.28, "end": 247.36, "text": " everyone knows about Capsa, but I'm not sure that all of our listeners would." }, { "start": 247.36, "end": 252.68, "text": " When you dedicate your life to an organization, essentially, you're always surprised to find" }, { "start": 252.68, "end": 256.48, "text": " how many folks don't understand or know about Capsa." }, { "start": 256.48, "end": 259.12, "text": " But thank you for asking me to join today." }, { "start": 259.12, "end": 263.92, "text": " When I was attending Utah State University as a student, I had decided to dedicate, you" }, { "start": 263.92, "end": 269.96000000000004, "text": " know, was really interested in how do I help at-risk youth and started working at the" }, { "start": 269.96000000000004, "end": 272.24, "text": " local youth detention center." }, { "start": 272.24, "end": 277.68, "text": " I didn't really feel like we were able to make a difference in that system for those" }, { "start": 277.68, "end": 283.04, "text": " at-risk youth and often sending them back to situations where it was difficult to see" }, { "start": 283.04, "end": 286.28000000000003, "text": " how they would have a chance of breaking out of that." }, { "start": 286.28000000000003, "end": 290.76, "text": " And I started volunteering at Capsa, and I could see that the work that we were doing" }, { "start": 290.8, "end": 297.08, "text": " there, if I could help women and moms create safe and stable homes for their children, that" }, { "start": 297.08, "end": 301.88, "text": " ultimately we would be reaching those at-risk youth that I wanted to reach." }, { "start": 301.88, "end": 308.59999999999997, "text": " And so I've spent the last 30 years of my career working with women primarily in children" }, { "start": 308.59999999999997, "end": 312.32, "text": " and youth who are victims of domestic and sexual violence." }, { "start": 312.32, "end": 319.48, "text": " And I've had the experience, really, of viewing and visiting your facilities and seeing sort" }, { "start": 319.48, "end": 324.48, "text": " of viscerally the work that you do, and we're lucky to have it." }, { "start": 324.48, "end": 333.48, "text": " But I also am really grateful that the language that we now use in this community about domestic" }, { "start": 333.48, "end": 339.76, "text": " violence and about sexual violence is in many ways propelled by the work that you do" }, { "start": 339.76, "end": 346.6, "text": " and the way that you talk about yourselves in everything from your bus wraps to things" }, { "start": 346.6, "end": 348.24, "text": " like this podcast." }, { "start": 348.24, "end": 352.52000000000004, "text": " I think it's actually transformational for our community to have a resource like that" }, { "start": 352.52000000000004, "end": 357.0, "text": " that creates the right narrative or the narrative that you create." }, { "start": 357.0, "end": 362.44, "text": " You know, I always try to honor the work of our founders that started this in 1976." }, { "start": 362.44, "end": 366.88, "text": " They started it originally known as the Cash Valley Rape Crisis Team, and when I think" }, { "start": 366.88, "end": 372.48, "text": " about the culture and the times in a very conservative community back in the mid to late" }, { "start": 372.48, "end": 378.8, "text": " 70s, that the courage that it took for them to start saying the words even in our community" }, { "start": 378.8, "end": 381.20000000000005, "text": " and start having those conversations." }, { "start": 381.20000000000005, "end": 385.92, "text": " And one of our founders, Jenny Box, going home and telling her husband, we are going to" }, { "start": 385.92, "end": 388.68, "text": " shelter victims in our own home." }, { "start": 388.68, "end": 393.24, "text": " And he was a dean at the College of Natural Resources at the time just saying, well," }, { "start": 393.24, "end": 397.8, "text": " okay, I guess I, any thought, three or four families a year we can handle that." }, { "start": 397.96000000000004, "end": 403.52000000000004, "text": " They had three families show up the first week and from their living room to what you" }, { "start": 403.52000000000004, "end": 408.64, "text": " see today has really been built over, you know, four decades now." }, { "start": 408.64, "end": 412.72, "text": " And I try to honor those founders that had the courage to start those conversations in" }, { "start": 412.72, "end": 415.72, "text": " our community and continue to have those conversations." }, { "start": 415.72, "end": 417.04, "text": " And create that service model." }, { "start": 417.04, "end": 421.56, "text": " Because I'm not sure what my spouse would say if I said I was going to bring home three" }, { "start": 421.56, "end": 425.28000000000003, "text": " families to shelter them in our home." }, { "start": 425.28, "end": 430.47999999999996, "text": " Yeah, he talks about not thinking through the liability and the safety and all of that." }, { "start": 430.47999999999996, "end": 434.15999999999997, "text": " And they realized, you know, if you look at our organization today, almost all of our" }, { "start": 434.15999999999997, "end": 439.2, "text": " programs have a founding story like that where we recognized that we weren't meeting the" }, { "start": 439.2, "end": 443.35999999999996, "text": " needs of survivors that there was a barrier they were facing and we needed to start that." }, { "start": 443.35999999999996, "end": 448.08, "text": " And one of the early things that they noticed was we can't provide the safety they need." }, { "start": 448.08, "end": 450.28, "text": " We can't provide the confidentiality." }, { "start": 450.28, "end": 453.35999999999996, "text": " One of the families, they were friends with her son." }, { "start": 453.36, "end": 458.48, "text": " And so she realized we can't provide this and they started to develop more programs over" }, { "start": 458.48, "end": 459.48, "text": " time." }, { "start": 459.48, "end": 466.24, "text": " Well, Rachel, let me, I'm really honestly quite interested in having you talk about your" }, { "start": 466.24, "end": 471.88, "text": " book because it represents an enormous amount of work to actually, you know, to gather at" }, { "start": 471.88, "end": 478.28000000000003, "text": " this, you know, with the subtitle, No Visible Bruises, A Narrative and Facts and Stories" }, { "start": 478.35999999999996, "end": 485.28, "text": " that come together in this way that emphasizes, but at least in my mind, in a very coherently" }, { "start": 485.28, "end": 490.84, "text": " written form, what's at stake in cases of domestic violence?" }, { "start": 490.84, "end": 494.23999999999995, "text": " So I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about either, you know, sort of, what have" }, { "start": 494.23999999999995, "end": 497.59999999999997, "text": " you learned along the way of gathering all that?" }, { "start": 497.59999999999997, "end": 503.88, "text": " And I mean, you're obviously incredibly capable at putting lots of information into a coherent," }, { "start": 503.88, "end": 506.12, "text": " readable, understandable package." }, { "start": 506.12, "end": 508.2, "text": " But what did you learn during the process?" }, { "start": 508.2, "end": 510.4, "text": " Gosh, that's thank you for that." }, { "start": 510.4, "end": 514.12, "text": " I have a background in creative writing." }, { "start": 514.12, "end": 517.08, "text": " I have an MFA in fiction." }, { "start": 517.08, "end": 519.64, "text": " My second book, No Visible Bruises is my third book." }, { "start": 519.64, "end": 521.2, "text": " I've published four books." }, { "start": 521.2, "end": 523.36, "text": " My second book was a novel." }, { "start": 523.36, "end": 527.76, "text": " So I think in story, my brain sort of story." }, { "start": 527.76, "end": 532.36, "text": " In fact, one of the quirky little factoids about me is that my great uncle created the" }, { "start": 532.36, "end": 534.96, "text": " Adams family." }, { "start": 534.96, "end": 536.64, "text": " So I come from a family of like-" }, { "start": 536.64, "end": 538.64, "text": " I'll got a lineage." }, { "start": 538.64, "end": 539.64, "text": " Freaky." }, { "start": 539.64, "end": 544.52, "text": " I mean, he created the hand, you know, the thing that's so famous anyway." }, { "start": 544.52, "end": 552.24, "text": " So I do think in story and I do really feel like statistics don't move the dial when" }, { "start": 552.24, "end": 554.12, "text": " it comes to social change." }, { "start": 554.12, "end": 560.48, "text": " They can be alarming, but those aren't the things that stay with you, you know, the story," }, { "start": 560.48, "end": 563.12, "text": " it's the story that stays with you." }, { "start": 563.12, "end": 570.6800000000001, "text": " And when I mentioned my now very dear friend, Susanne Dubuse, meeting her and her sort of dismantling" }, { "start": 570.6800000000001, "end": 577.84, "text": " all these myths for me, I realized that in the arena of journalism where I operate and" }, { "start": 577.84, "end": 586.0, "text": " creative writing, we weren't telling the story in the way that was sticky, I think, is" }, { "start": 586.0, "end": 588.28, "text": " how I would do it." }, { "start": 588.28, "end": 593.3199999999999, "text": " There's lots of great stats out there and there's great data, but if you didn't stand" }, { "start": 593.3199999999999, "end": 598.04, "text": " at the receiving end of a punch, you felt like it had nothing to do with you." }, { "start": 598.04, "end": 606.36, "text": " And that was the- for me, that was the big impetus, like, okay, we have 400 years of not caring" }, { "start": 606.36, "end": 609.12, "text": " about domestic violence in this country." }, { "start": 609.12, "end": 614.24, "text": " There's lots of books written about domestic violence, but they tend to be academic or" }, { "start": 614.24, "end": 619.8, "text": " maybe self-helpy or like they're not, feel like they're rising to the level of like someone" }, { "start": 619.8, "end": 625.6, "text": " who isn't intimately involved in a domestic violence situation would read or be interested" }, { "start": 625.6, "end": 626.6, "text": " in." }, { "start": 626.6, "end": 628.5600000000001, "text": " And I really had that." }, { "start": 628.5600000000001, "end": 634.0, "text": " It was like very calculated for me, really, almost as an artist to be like, okay, how can" }, { "start": 634.0, "end": 638.96, "text": " I write it so that people who have no interest in domestic violence, because I have 400 years" }, { "start": 638.96, "end": 644.2, "text": " of proving that we have no interest in this country, we'll read it and get to the end" }, { "start": 644.24, "end": 648.24, "text": " because they're so compelled to chart each page, right?" }, { "start": 648.24, "end": 651.2800000000001, "text": " And they'll get to the end and be like, wow, I- what a great book." }, { "start": 651.2800000000001, "end": 654.6800000000001, "text": " I know so much about domestic violence now, unwittingly." }, { "start": 654.6800000000001, "end": 658.6, "text": " And that was- that was sort of my charge." }, { "start": 658.6, "end": 664.08, "text": " That was how I felt like I needed to come to this book." }, { "start": 664.08, "end": 671.12, "text": " And there is a lot of data in there, but the hardest part for me was how to tell the story." }, { "start": 671.12, "end": 676.92, "text": " How to tell the story that it would feel not, you know, the journalists in me is, you" }, { "start": 676.92, "end": 681.68, "text": " know, we have a- we are asking people to share their worst moments." }, { "start": 681.68, "end": 686.8, "text": " And so I wanted to be respectful of that and honor that, but I also wanted to write" }, { "start": 686.8, "end": 693.16, "text": " something that felt like a page turner and not in a gratuitous way, but in a like deep," }, { "start": 693.16, "end": 697.8, "text": " social justice kind of way, like in that sense." }, { "start": 697.8, "end": 700.08, "text": " I don't know if that answers your question, but it did take me-" }, { "start": 700.08, "end": 701.08, "text": " No, it does." }, { "start": 701.08, "end": 702.08, "text": " Right, so." }, { "start": 702.08, "end": 703.08, "text": " Absolutely." }, { "start": 703.08, "end": 704.08, "text": " Honor that." }, { "start": 704.08, "end": 709.08, "text": " You know, so I've lived in Utah for less than a year, about eight months." }, { "start": 709.08, "end": 711.2, "text": " Oh, wow, amazing." }, { "start": 711.2, "end": 716.6800000000001, "text": " And it feels like- and I think statistically probably is, I'm looking at till, but a relatively" }, { "start": 716.6800000000001, "end": 721.5200000000001, "text": " safe state and our little valley maybe even more so." }, { "start": 721.5200000000001, "end": 727.32, "text": " But I also know from looking at the data that the prevalence of sexual violence in this" }, { "start": 727.32, "end": 729.88, "text": " state is relatively high." }, { "start": 729.88, "end": 735.12, "text": " So our reality is frightening from that perspective." }, { "start": 735.12, "end": 739.4399999999999, "text": " It is, you know, Utah leads in a number of ways." }, { "start": 739.4399999999999, "end": 744.52, "text": " And this is one of the areas where we are far worse off than a lot of other states in" }, { "start": 744.52, "end": 745.72, "text": " the country." }, { "start": 745.72, "end": 750.92, "text": " We still have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the nation." }, { "start": 750.92, "end": 754.72, "text": " And I think a lot of it is we- we don't talk about it here." }, { "start": 754.72, "end": 760.8000000000001, "text": " We don't discuss it as a community and tackle the issue." }, { "start": 760.8000000000001, "end": 766.24, "text": " And unless we're willing to talk about it and address it and come together collectively," }, { "start": 766.24, "end": 771.0, "text": " we won't make much progress moving forward." }, { "start": 771.0, "end": 778.9200000000001, "text": " And I think we- because we don't see a lot of street violence, a lot of gang violence," }, { "start": 778.9200000000001, "end": 784.08, "text": " because crime in Utah is actually down overall, we forget that maybe one of the most dangerous" }, { "start": 784.08, "end": 786.72, "text": " places for folks is they're very on home." }, { "start": 786.72, "end": 795.4000000000001, "text": " But to me that Rachel that like almost exemplifies the idea of no visible bruises that there's" }, { "start": 795.4000000000001, "end": 802.9200000000001, "text": " this thing in our community that makes it less obvious here." }, { "start": 802.9200000000001, "end": 807.4000000000001, "text": " You know, if I think- and I am like totally if I hear, but if I just think about what could" }, { "start": 807.4000000000001, "end": 813.0400000000001, "text": " that be, it's got to be that piece about not talking about it." }, { "start": 813.04, "end": 815.8, "text": " It's stronger in this place." }, { "start": 815.8, "end": 822.9599999999999, "text": " Well, I'm not from Utah, but my sense is that it's not talking about it." }, { "start": 822.9599999999999, "end": 824.8399999999999, "text": " It's the shame associated with it." }, { "start": 824.8399999999999, "end": 828.12, "text": " Victims will still think that they have some-" }, { "start": 828.12, "end": 830.88, "text": " Brought it on themselves to some extent." }, { "start": 830.88, "end": 838.0, "text": " And I think we still have a narrative of this is a private matter, you know." }, { "start": 838.0, "end": 844.52, "text": " And to me, one of the things I'm starting to realize just, you know, in the last year" }, { "start": 844.52, "end": 850.6, "text": " or two, just as I'm writing, I'm working on my next book right now, which does again" }, { "start": 850.6, "end": 853.76, "text": " address domestic violence, but from a very different angle." }, { "start": 853.76, "end": 858.32, "text": " All violence is a really connected type of violence, right?" }, { "start": 858.32, "end": 860.2, "text": " You met Jill mentioned gang violence." }, { "start": 860.2, "end": 864.88, "text": " You know, there's data that says, well, gang violence is domestic violence, right?" }, { "start": 864.88, "end": 870.36, "text": " Like you take someone who knows, you know, they're dating and she breaks up with them" }, { "start": 870.36, "end": 874.2, "text": " to date somebody who's in a different gang and then there's a shooting whatever." }, { "start": 874.2, "end": 881.92, "text": " I'm sort of bastardizing the research, but like that is a form of domestic violence." }, { "start": 881.92, "end": 885.24, "text": " Or I just finished a survey that's not even published yet." }, { "start": 885.24, "end": 888.92, "text": " I'm writing a big piece from the New York Times about the survey I did with Stanford" }, { "start": 888.92, "end": 892.2, "text": " Law School with criminalized survivors." }, { "start": 892.2, "end": 898.32, "text": " And one of the big discoveries that we've made in this report is that the vast majority" }, { "start": 898.32, "end": 904.1600000000001, "text": " and it's some, I can't remember the exact number, about 80% of women who are incarcerated," }, { "start": 904.1600000000001, "end": 909.8000000000001, "text": " about 80% of the women who are incarcerated for murder or manslaughter who did our 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So I always feel obligated to speak up in honor of the boys and men who just have no" }, { "start": 1016.6, "end": 1018.8000000000001, "text": " recourse either." }, { "start": 1018.8000000000001, "end": 1024.32, "text": " You know, one of the things we recognized early on when we realized that our focus was" }, { "start": 1024.32, "end": 1029.76, "text": " totally on the moms in the shelter was that the vast majority of the people in our shelter" }, { "start": 1029.76, "end": 1030.76, "text": " were children." }, { "start": 1030.76, "end": 1031.76, "text": " Yes." }, { "start": 1031.76, "end": 1037.56, "text": " But we needed to build programs and address the children as well." }, { "start": 1037.56, "end": 1042.08, "text": " And thinking about some of the shelters across the country wouldn't shelter boys over the" }, { "start": 1042.08, "end": 1043.56, "text": " age of 12." }, { "start": 1043.56, "end": 1045.12, "text": " We never had that rule." }, { "start": 1045.12, "end": 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"text": " And it's those boys investing in those boys early at that young age when they're in our" }, { "start": 1082.24, "end": 1087.92, "text": " shelter, when they're in our transitional housing program, we provide therapy." }, { "start": 1087.96, "end": 1092.64, "text": " I remember a woman that I'd been working with, they had money." }, { "start": 1092.64, "end": 1097.16, "text": " And I knew she had left an abusive relationship a number of years ago." }, { "start": 1097.16, "end": 1100.04, "text": " And she said, you know, my son just keeps acting out." }, { "start": 1100.04, "end": 1102.68, "text": " He's starting to act more and more like his father." }, { "start": 1102.68, "end": 1104.0, "text": " And I said, bring him in." }, { "start": 1104.0, "end": 1105.44, "text": " And she said, well, we have money." }, { "start": 1105.44, "end": 1106.44, "text": " We don't need." }, { "start": 1106.44, "end": 1112.1200000000001, "text": " Said, we have experts and therapists who do this all the time, bring him in." }, { "start": 1112.1200000000001, "end": 1117.68, "text": " And it was months later that she said, I've tried therapists after therapists and not" }, { "start": 1117.68, "end": 1119.64, "text": " been able to get the help." }, { "start": 1119.64, "end": 1125.04, "text": " And he recently started to lash out and stopped and said, I'm sorry, mom, I didn't mean" }, { "start": 1125.04, "end": 1126.04, "text": " that." }, { "start": 1126.04, "end": 1130.48, "text": " And she knew then that she has changed the getting the help that he needed had changed" }, { "start": 1130.48, "end": 1132.16, "text": " the trajectory of his life." }, { "start": 1132.16, "end": 1136.4, "text": " And so we do need to focus on the prevention of this." }, { "start": 1136.4, "end": 1137.4, "text": " So go ahead." }, { "start": 1137.4, "end": 1138.4, "text": " Great." }, { "start": 1138.4, "end": 1144.68, "text": " I'm sorry for interrupting, but I, I'm so glad that you said that Jill, because, you know," }, { "start": 1144.68, "end": 1150.5600000000002, "text": " one of the scary things to me is the fact that something like 21 states in this country" }, { "start": 1150.5600000000002, "end": 1156.64, "text": " right now have either no sex ed for high schoolers or opt in only." }, { "start": 1156.64, "end": 1161.0800000000002, "text": " And when it's opt in, it's their parents who have to opt in for them, which means in" }, { "start": 1161.0800000000002, "end": 1166.6000000000001, "text": " some cases that you're asking an abuser to opt in for their children, right?" }, { "start": 1166.6000000000001, "end": 1173.04, "text": " And I just think how are we empowering kids when they don't, they don't come in knowing" }, { "start": 1173.04, "end": 1174.04, "text": " what consent is?" }, { "start": 1174.52, "end": 1177.28, "text": " I mean, I'm a professor at American University." }, { "start": 1177.28, "end": 1186.6399999999999, "text": " And I am seeing on our campuses the result of kids who have zero sex ed or abstinence only," }, { "start": 1186.6399999999999, "end": 1190.1599999999999, "text": " which is also a form of zero sex ed." }, { "start": 1190.1599999999999, "end": 1191.1599999999999, "text": " I would argue." }, { "start": 1191.1599999999999, "end": 1195.48, "text": " I know that's probably controversial in some parts of Utah, but I really believe that" }, { "start": 1195.48, "end": 1199.72, "text": " we, we need to be teaching girls, boys, trans kids." }, { "start": 1199.72, "end": 1203.96, "text": " We need to be teaching all of them sex ed in every state." }, { "start": 1203.96, "end": 1206.4, "text": " I just think it should be part of the curriculum." }, { "start": 1206.4, "end": 1210.8400000000001, "text": " And, you know, it is a big part, a piece of prevention." }, { "start": 1210.8400000000001, "end": 1211.8400000000001, "text": " Indeed." }, { "start": 1211.8400000000001, "end": 1217.48, "text": " So, let me switch gears back to my questions, because I wanted, I don't want to lose the" }, { "start": 1217.48, "end": 1221.92, "text": " opportunity to talk a little bit about the upcoming conference and kind of some of the" }, { "start": 1221.92, "end": 1223.1200000000001, "text": " things that are going to happen there." }, { "start": 1223.1200000000001, "end": 1229.52, "text": " And at least one of them is a session that covers the lead Thality Assessment Protocol that" }, { "start": 1229.52, "end": 1231.88, "text": " we use here in Utah." }, { "start": 1231.88, "end": 1236.8400000000001, "text": " And I wonder if we could start maybe with you, Jill, and then to you, Rachel, to just" }, { "start": 1236.8400000000001, "end": 1243.1200000000001, "text": " talk about why something like a protocol can help us, like how important it is to actually" }, { "start": 1243.1200000000001, "end": 1246.3600000000001, "text": " create procedures and guardrails." }, { "start": 1246.3600000000001, "end": 1253.68, "text": " The 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"text": " The number one most effective thing about it to me is that it brings community-based advocates" }, { "start": 1417.8400000000001, "end": 1419.68, "text": " and law enforcement around the table." }, { "start": 1419.68, "end": 1421.2800000000002, "text": " It creates a common language." }, { "start": 1421.2800000000002, "end": 1423.0800000000002, "text": " It creates collaboration." }, { "start": 1423.0800000000002, "end": 1424.6000000000001, "text": " It creates discussion." }, { "start": 1424.6, "end": 1429.9599999999998, "text": " The two community-based advocates and law enforcement come from two very different cultures" }, { "start": 1429.9599999999998, "end": 1431.32, "text": " within their organizations." }, { "start": 1431.32, "end": 1435.8, "text": " They come at the issue of domestic violence from different lenses, different approaches." }, { "start": 1435.8, "end": 1441.84, "text": " And by bringing us together around the table, we can start to together bringing our 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"text": " Build action plans, build the next steps, the things that come out of higher volume on" }, { "start": 1487.08, "end": 1495.52, "text": " the narrative and the experiences, unless hidden stories, because seems logical to me." }, { "start": 1495.52, "end": 1502.88, "text": " Yeah, I think one of the things I try to do in my book is include every side of the" }, { "start": 1502.88, "end": 1503.88, "text": " conversation." }, { "start": 1503.88, "end": 1510.1200000000001, "text": " I have victim stories, but I also have the perpetrators who are many of them in prison" }, { "start": 1510.1200000000001, "end": 1516.44, "text": " today trying to reckon with not always, but sometimes trying to reckon with the things" }, { "start": 1516.44, "end": 1518.96, "text": " that they've done." }, { "start": 1518.96, "end": 1525.72, "text": " I talk to restorative justice practitioners, I talk to police officers, detectives, prosecutors," }, { "start": 1525.72, "end": 1527.68, "text": " DDAs, 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model for Freedom House" }, { "start": 1765.8, "end": 1770.6, "text": " in Park City, which it wrote about in the near times recently." }, { "start": 1770.6, "end": 1774.84, "text": " And by the way, I did have a sentence or two about Capsa that ended up being cupped" }, { "start": 1774.84, "end": 1775.84, "text": " by my editor." }, { "start": 1775.84, "end": 1778.1999999999998, "text": " I want to just tell you Jill, hey, how are you in there?" }, { "start": 1778.1999999999998, "end": 1784.6399999999999, "text": " But you know, what they've been able to do with their programming has been hugely impactful." }, { "start": 1784.6399999999999, "end": 1785.6399999999999, "text": " Thank you, Rachel." }, { "start": 1785.64, "end": 1790.2800000000002, "text": " I remember working with their director at the time and board." }, { "start": 1790.2800000000002, "end": 1793.8400000000001, "text": " And one of the things that we did when we built our new facility was we just said we're" }, { 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particularly in this moment, it might be important to you as well, Rachel, that the" }, { "start": 1963.6, "end": 1968.76, "text": " capacity for universities to create an environment or questions are allowed to be asked and" }, { "start": 1968.76, "end": 1973.16, "text": " research is allowed to be done in order to actually determine whether there's veracity" }, { "start": 1973.24, "end": 1978.72, "text": " in those questions is really important to our historical moment." }, { "start": 1978.72, "end": 1985.8400000000001, "text": " And we will always lean on maintaining that particular form of academic freedom that" }, { "start": 1985.8400000000001, "end": 1993.88, "text": " allows social questions to be asked and researched with fidelity so that we bring something different" }, { "start": 1993.88, "end": 1997.8400000000001, "text": " to the conversation if it's what should be delivered." }, { "start": 1997.84, "end": 2003.48, "text": " This hallway conversation is going to get you, so it will get you actually pretty far," }, { "start": 2003.48, "end": 2009.32, "text": " but building the research platform that's pretty hard to question gets you even further." }, { "start": 2009.32, "end": 2010.32, "text": " It does." }, { "start": 2010.32, "end": 2011.32, "text": " I don't know." }, { "start": 2011.32, "end": 2013.32, "text": " You teach writing, right, Rachel?" }, { "start": 2013.32, "end": 2015.32, "text": " I mean, do you see that?" }, { "start": 2015.32, "end": 2016.48, "text": " We provide a..." }, { "start": 2016.48, "end": 2023.12, "text": " I have a joint appointment in creative writing and journalism at American University." }, { "start": 2023.12, "end": 2028.9599999999998, "text": " And I mean, I think, yes, I think there is a real..." }, { "start": 2028.9599999999998, "end": 2033.6799999999998, "text": " I think our universities are troubled in a variety of ways these days, right?" }, { "start": 2033.6799999999998, "end": 2038.08, "text": " We could have a 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what your culture means or is or" }, { "start": 2078.8, "end": 2084.0800000000004, "text": " how it plays out in your own attitudes until you remove yourself to a place that is so" }, { "start": 2084.0800000000004, "end": 2085.0800000000004, "text": " foreign." }, { "start": 2085.0800000000004, "end": 2091.44, "text": " And it was interesting to me to be in a culture of collectivism, a culture not of individualism." }, { "start": 2091.44, "end": 2097.32, "text": " And I've brought a lot of those lessons back with me because I think we can't..." }, { "start": 2097.32, "end": 2100.04, "text": " We're not going to arrest our way out of this problem." }, { "start": 2100.04, "end": 2103.2000000000003, "text": " We're not going to imprison our way out of this problem." }, { "start": 2103.2000000000003, "end": 2108.6000000000004, "text": " We can only find our way out of this problem by working together and working across these" }, { "start": 2108.6, "end": 2109.6, "text": " various 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probably not true." }, { "start": 2140.68, "end": 2143.4, "text": " But I've done a lot of speaking since this book came out." }, { "start": 2143.4, "end": 2149.2400000000002, "text": " And I really think there's never been a better time for these solutions that like people" }, { "start": 2149.2400000000002, "end": 2153.52, "text": " are more open, politicians and policymakers are more open." }, { "start": 2153.52, "end": 2157.12, "text": " People like Jill are saying, you know what, I'm not sure how we're going to do this, but" }, { "start": 2157.12, "end": 2158.12, "text": " we know it's the right thing to do." }, { "start": 2158.12, "end": 2159.12, "text": " So we're going to do it." }, { "start": 2159.12, "end": 2164.0, "text": " That's brave and courageous to me." }, { "start": 2164.0, "end": 2170.4, "text": " So that's maybe beyond what your question was, but I feel very excited about all of these" }, { "start": 2170.4, "end": 2171.4, "text": " possibilities." }, { "start": 2171.4, "end": 2177.44, "text": " Well, inevitably, at least in my experience when talking about collaborations, collaborative" }, { "start": 2177.44, "end": 2183.24, "text": " leadership, actually doing things with different components of the community, it takes an enormous" }, { "start": 2183.24, "end": 2187.04, "text": " amount of courage to actually drive action together." }, { "start": 2187.04, "end": 2190.72, "text": " It's just much easier to be in your community and kind of do the things that you've always" }, { "start": 2190.72, "end": 2195.12, "text": " done in that piece of your, the place where you have the most, you feel the most comfortable" }, { "start": 2195.12, "end": 2196.3999999999996, "text": " have the most ages." }, { "start": 2196.3999999999996, "end": 2199.0, "text": " So there is a huge amount of courage associated." }, { "start": 2199.0, "end": 2205.52, "text": " So I hope that we bring that word to the table during the conference." }, { "start": 2205.52, "end": 2209.48, "text": " I am going to give each of you, if you have a like a last thought for our listeners, we" }, { "start": 2209.48, "end": 2210.48, "text": " have a couple minutes left." }, { "start": 2210.48, "end": 2212.08, "text": " We'll start with Jill." }, { "start": 2212.08, "end": 2216.4399999999996, "text": " First, I always like to leave the message with survivors that you're not alone." }, { "start": 2216.4399999999996, "end": 2217.4399999999996, "text": " We're here." }, { "start": 2217.44, "end": 2222.0, "text": " We give you and we're open anytime you're ready and willing." }, { "start": 2222.0, "end": 2223.92, "text": " We have a lot of supports." }, { "start": 2223.92, "end": 2228.92, "text": " If recently I heard a survivor say, I would have left sooner and she was in a very dangerous" }, { "start": 2228.92, "end": 2229.92, "text": " situation." }, { "start": 2229.92, "end": 2234.68, "text": " She said, it would have left sooner if I knew the breadth and depth of services that you" }, { "start": 2234.68, "end": 2235.68, "text": " provide." }, { "start": 2235.68, "end": 2238.08, "text": " And I hope I never hear that from another survivor." }, { "start": 2238.08, "end": 2243.7200000000003, "text": " So I want survivors to know we can help you with your very complex and dangerous circumstance." }, { "start": 2243.72, "end": 2246.9199999999996, "text": " And then the other one is, it's going to take all of us." }, { "start": 2246.9199999999996, "end": 2251.12, "text": " There's no doubt that the complexities around domestic violence are going to be solved" }, { "start": 2251.12, "end": 2253.56, "text": " without all of us coming together." }, { "start": 2253.56, "end": 2259.12, "text": " Businesses, civic leaders, universities, law enforcement, healthcare, all of us have to" }, { "start": 2259.12, "end": 2261.12, "text": " work together to address this." }, { "start": 2261.12, "end": 2262.12, "text": " Here, here." }, { "start": 2262.12, "end": 2264.12, "text": " Any last words for us?" }, { "start": 2264.12, "end": 2265.6, "text": " Well, you'll sort of took mine." }, { "start": 2265.6, "end": 2270.7599999999998, "text": " That's what the, you know, if you think you don't have a role in solving this, you're" }, { "start": 2270.7599999999998, "end": 2271.7599999999998, "text": " wrong." }, { "start": 2271.76, "end": 2278.76, "text": " You know, as a journalist, I realized talking to my now friend, all those years ago, that" }, { "start": 2278.76, "end": 2285.8, "text": " my, the community, I was part of the journalism, the media community wasn't getting this right." }, { "start": 2285.8, "end": 2291.28, "text": " And in some ways, no visible bruises is an attempt to sort of get it right." }, { "start": 2291.28, "end": 2295.6000000000004, "text": " Every time I see a headline that's domestic dispute, blah, blah, blah, I just want to" }, { "start": 2295.6000000000004, "end": 2296.6000000000004, "text": " stab my eyes out." }, { "start": 2296.6000000000004, "end": 2298.32, "text": " You know, it's like, it's not a dispute." }, { "start": 2298.32, "end": 2299.32, "text": " It's a crime." }, { "start": 2299.32, "end": 2300.32, "text": " It's a crime." }, { "start": 2300.36, "end": 2301.44, "text": " All of what it is, right?" }, { "start": 2301.44, "end": 2303.0, "text": " Like, the language matters." }, { "start": 2303.0, "end": 2307.04, "text": " And I think that everybody, whether you're, whether you're clergy, whether you're in the" }, { "start": 2307.04, "end": 2312.6200000000003, "text": " human resources of a local business, if you're a social worker or guidance counselor at" }, { "start": 2312.6200000000003, "end": 2319.1200000000003, "text": " the high school, whatever your particular little, you know, corner of the world is, you" }, { "start": 2319.1200000000003, "end": 2322.3, "text": " can find a way people through those." }, { "start": 2322.3, "end": 2327.04, "text": " And I think the, you know, Jill's organization, an organization like CAPSA have to be the" }, { "start": 2327.04, "end": 2329.2000000000003, "text": " leaders on that." }, { "start": 2329.2, "end": 2335.12, "text": " But I do think inviting all of these other community members in is what's going to really" }, { "start": 2335.12, "end": 2336.7999999999997, "text": " move the dial on this, right?" }, { "start": 2336.7999999999997, "end": 2343.2799999999997, "text": " I gave a talk in Sacramento a few years ago and leaders from corporate leaders from Motel" }, { "start": 2343.2799999999997, "end": 2348.24, "text": " 6 were there because they wanted to train their front desk people to recognize domestic" }, { "start": 2348.24, "end": 2349.24, "text": " violence." }, { "start": 2349.24, "end": 2353.52, "text": " I gave another talk in, I think it was Iowa or maybe Illinois, I forget." }, { "start": 2353.52, "end": 2354.96, "text": " I should know because I'm from Illinois." }, { "start": 2355.12, "end": 2362.04, "text": " But they were doing a training for cashiers at their truck stops, which was really interesting." }, { "start": 2362.04, "end": 2368.4, "text": " So I think any time you can intersect with any of these other people who are out in the" }, { "start": 2368.4, "end": 2372.84, "text": " public, hairdressers is another famous one, right?" }, { "start": 2372.84, "end": 2379.2400000000002, "text": " Like, the women in particular who will go and devolve things to their hairdressers is," }, { "start": 2379.2400000000002, "end": 2382.36, "text": " they've, the Chicago had a big program training hairdressers." }, { "start": 2382.36, "end": 2387.2400000000002, "text": " So I think, you know, the more people we can bring under the umbrella and offer some" }, { "start": 2387.2400000000002, "end": 2393.52, "text": " awareness and training and resources to, the more we're going to begin to see real change." }, { "start": 2393.52, "end": 2394.84, "text": " Thank you both." }, { "start": 2394.84, "end": 2401.6400000000003, "text": " And I hope everybody really thinks about our May 29th Northern Utah conference and violence" }, { "start": 2401.6400000000003, "end": 2408.6800000000003, "text": " and perhaps either attending or paying attention to some of the people who are speaking there." }, { "start": 2408.6800000000003, "end": 2412.1200000000003, "text": " It's a really critical resource for our community." }, { "start": 2412.12, "end": 2415.7599999999998, "text": " It's certainly a way to get, sometimes, our research out into the world, but even more" }, { "start": 2415.7599999999998, "end": 2419.7599999999998, "text": " a place for hallway conversations that will transform the world." }, { "start": 2419.7599999999998, "end": 2426.24, "text": " So my thanks to Rachel Louise Snyder and Jill Anderson for giving us something to think" }, { "start": 2426.24, "end": 2432.48, "text": " about and kind of a preview of an amazing conference and a place where you will be speaking" }, { "start": 2432.48, "end": 2435.0, "text": " Rachel, I look forward to that." }, { "start": 2435.0, "end": 2437.24, "text": " And thanks to you both for the work that you do." }, { "start": 2437.24, "end": 2438.24, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 2438.24, "end": 2439.24, "text": " Thank you." }, { "start": 2440.24, "end": 2445.9599999999996, "text": " Special thanks to Jill Anderson and Rachel Snyder for joining us on Future Casting with Utah State." }, { "start": 2445.9599999999996, "end": 2450.3199999999997, "text": " And thank you to the planners who made this week's episode possible." }, { "start": 2450.3199999999997, "end": 2455.04, "text": " Thank you for joining us in Future Casting with Utah State." }, { "start": 2455.04, "end": 2459.3999999999996, "text": " Future casting is a production of Utah Public Radio and Utah State University sponsored" }, { "start": 2459.3999999999996, "end": 2461.24, "text": " by the Office of the President." }, { "start": 2461.24, 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