WOMEN UNSILENCED: Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win

Join authors Linda McDonald and Jeanne Sarson, two retired public health nurses who include their own experiences that helped give voice and understanding to women who have been silenced. Jeanne and Linda will talk about their book, WOMEN UNSILENCED: Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win.

The book explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives—women’s recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society’s failure to recognize and address such crimes, and close examinations of how justice, health, political, and social systems perpetuate revictimizing trauma.

This book discloses their “underground” caring work and offers “kitchen table” research and insights, using women’s storytelling on multiple platforms to educate readers on the unimaginable layers of perpetrators’ modus operandi of violence, manipulation, and deceit.