Amita Swadhin's Contact Details

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Mirror Memoirs

Los Angeles, California, United States • 4 Employees
Public Safety

Mirror Memoirs is a national storytelling and organizing project intervening in rape culture by uplifting the narratives, healing and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and of color Two Spirit, transgender, non-binary, intersex and queer survivors of childhood rape and sexual assault.While the US Centers for Disease Control estimates 20% of all adults (1 in 4 female-assigned-at-birth and 1 in 6 male-assigned-at-birth people) experience rape or sexual abuse by an older child or an adult by the age of 18, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that gender non-conforming children, especially those assigned male at birth, may be at even greater risk. A 2011 study of more than 1,000 transgender people found over 50% experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives, and of those who were adult sexual violence survivors, 72% had also survived child sexual abuse.This project uses storytelling and survivor leadership to illuminate the needs and wisdom of survivors at this vulnerable intersection, and to organize for solutions to this violence beyond reliance on prisons, police and state-run psychiatric institutions.