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Breaking the Silence: A Journey Towards Healing
Story Contributor: LeiAloha Taukave-Langman
In this storytelling session, LeiAloha shares her journey of surviving sexual exploitation and harassment from within her community during her adolescent years. As an advocate for victims of sexual abuse, LeiAloha unpacks the ways in which cultural environments often dismiss sexual trauma and pressure victims to remain “strong” and silent for the sake of the collective.
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“I was still a teenager, a minor, I was a kid…In all these incidences and it makes me so sad that nobody was mad enough for me.”
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“They were the start of why I was so angry, I was such an angry kid after that. I didn’t know how to communicate. I was sad…I stopped going to church because they all looked like him and they all knew him and they didn’t want anybody to know.”
“And so after that I had to like, [say] ‘ok, we’re going heal and we’re going to be better, and I need to be ok with people in my community’ because I really hated them.”
“I suffered a lot in some other things in my life because of all the things that happened to me…I made a lot of poor uneducated decisions because I didn’t think so highly of myself…and now I feel like I’m in a place where I love myself ten times over.”
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