The Girlfriends S4/Bonus Ep 6: How to Put a Spotlight on Your Story

About this episode

Khadijah discusses the importance of ethical storytelling with journalist Tamara Cherry, focusing on trauma informed reporting.

Sharing your story, whether that’s on social media or through the news can be pretty daunting. But putting a spotlight on your community is essential to drawing attention to the causes you care about. So in this episode, Khadijah speaks to journalist Tamara Cherry about how trauma informed reporting can give survivors and advocates the opportunity to tell their stories in an ethical way. US resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://rainn.org/ International resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://nomoredirectory.org/ US Suicide & Crisis Helpline: https://988lifeline.org/ International Suicide & Crisis Helplines: https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/ The Girlfriends: Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. For more from Novel, visit https://novel.audio/. You can listen to new episodes of The Girlfriends: Untouchable completely ad-free and 1 week early with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Khadijah

Guest: Tamara Cherry

Topics covered

• storytelling
• trauma informed reporting
• community advocacy
• violence prevention
• sexual assault awareness

Keywords

• storytelling
• trauma
• reporting
• advocacy
• sexual assault
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: iHeart Podcasts, Novel, RAINN, No More Directory, 988 Lifeline, Open Counseling

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