24 min
Surviving Intimate Partner Violence - Tanya Selvaratnam Carry The Lantern
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- Documentary
When award-winning producer, writer and social activist Tanya Selvaratnam became a victim of intimate partner violence, she got out - with the help of friends and an intimate violence expert. She also went public by participating in an investigative journalism piece in The New Yorker about her powerful abuser, NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Other women he had dated also went public about their abuse at his hands. Schneiderman resigned from his job the day the article was published and recently lost his NY law license for one year.
Hear Tanya's journey from victim to survivor to thriver.
Tanya has chronicled her story for other victims and their allies in her book, ASSUME NOTHING: A STORY OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE.
Find Tanya's website, articles, interviews and how to purchase her book here. https://linktr.ee/tanyaturnsup
To read The New Yorker article in which Tanya came forward about her abuse: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
Your host and curious curator, Lady Eleonor, is a screenwriter dedicating this space to stories, life and lifestories.
When award-winning producer, writer and social activist Tanya Selvaratnam became a victim of intimate partner violence, she got out - with the help of friends and an intimate violence expert. She also went public by participating in an investigative journalism piece in The New Yorker about her powerful abuser, NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Other women he had dated also went public about their abuse at his hands. Schneiderman resigned from his job the day the article was published and recently lost his NY law license for one year.
Hear Tanya's journey from victim to survivor to thriver.
Tanya has chronicled her story for other victims and their allies in her book, ASSUME NOTHING: A STORY OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE.
Find Tanya's website, articles, interviews and how to purchase her book here. https://linktr.ee/tanyaturnsup
To read The New Yorker article in which Tanya came forward about her abuse: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
Your host and curious curator, Lady Eleonor, is a screenwriter dedicating this space to stories, life and lifestories.
24 min