Project Unbreakable is excited to announce that we are partnering with several organizations for a special event in June! Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder of the Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship, will host a day long event in New York City on June 5th, 2013. Laura, a longtime trauma worker, uses a mix of personal insight, research, personal stories, and countless New Yorker cartoons to examine the ways working & witnessing trauma can affect us.

Instead of the usual rate of $90, we are offering a partner rate of $60 from now until the date of the event. To sign up, please contact us at projectunbreakable@gmail.com. This day is open to anyone who bears witness - social workers, foster parents, nurses, feminist advocates, environmentalists, domestic violence/child abuse shelter volunteers, firefighters, etc. (Or anyone planning on going into any of these fields.)

We at Project Unbreakable are extremely passionate about Laura’s work; in order to take care of others, we need to learn how to take care of ourselves first.

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The poster reads:

“C’mon. Really. Didn’t you enjoy it?”

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 7th.

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The poster reads:

Adult (male) family friend:

“Please, pretty please?”

17-year old me (after 10 years):

“I’m not doing this anymore.”

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 7th.

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The poster reads:

“I stay in the background to give you freedom.”

What freedom? (age 13-17)

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 7th.

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The poster reads:

“You’re too pretty to be a lesbian.”

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 7th.

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The posters reads:

“Are you sure?”

“That doesn’t happen here at UVA…” my “friends”

“You are so strong” my sister

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 6th.

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The poster reads:

Once he was done, he said to me “I waited so long to finally have this. Shouldn’t you be happy?”

He raped me in the front seat of my car - 3 years later. He got what he wanted. I thought I got what I wanted - for it to be over. 

I was wrong.

But I still told him “yes”

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 6th.

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The poster reads:

“Tranquila, Tranquila Besame”

(As he put the gun on the bed)

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Photographed in Charlottesville, VA on November 6th.

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