A White Noise in Your Head - Part 1

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

By the time her boyfriend became violent, Kim Dadou Brown was confident she could handle it. It was just one of those things the women in her family dealt with. It wasn’t until Kim found herself in prison that she realized how seriously the years of abuse had skewed her reality – and what little support the system offered women like her. In Part 01, Kim meets us in her home in Rochester, New York, where she shares what ultimately led to a final act of violence and how much work she’s had to do in order to free herself from the trauma. *This episode contains strong descriptions of domestic violence, please listen with care. --- Produced by Grace Heerman, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Music by Mike Etten Sound Design by Armen Bazarian Intro/Outro music by Anand Wilder For more about this story, including photos by Casey Steffens, visit everythingisstories.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:04.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.
0:12.4	Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.
0:17.4	From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify is made for
0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:35.1	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
0:40.3	The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.
0:44.3	No, no.
0:46.3	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
0:52.3	The way to understand these stories is to know they are about them. The way to understand these stories is to know they are about us.
0:58.0	This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence.
1:16.9	Please listen with care.
1:20.4	The feeling of going over a roller coaster in your chest,
1:26.5	trying to take a full breath and you can't.
1:30.3	Like someone with arms of steel around you squeezing you so tight, you can't expand
1:35.9	your lungs to take a breath.
1:39.2	The white noise in your head, but you're still aware of everything going on.
1:47.2	The anticipation of the sound of impact.
1:54.0	I hate that sound.
1:56.9	If a car would have drive down the street right now and hit a pole, that sound of impact would make something feel like it ripped inside me.
2:09.2	If you punch me in my face or slap me, I'm not going to die. I can handle the pain.
2:17.8	It's going to hurt, but I can handle it.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Everything Is Stories, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Everything Is Stories and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.