A White Noise in Your Head - Part 2

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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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. Kims' story continues in part 02, where she shares what transpired in the wake of her boyfriends' death and how she came out on the other side into a career as an activist for domestic violence victims. *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

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0:00.0	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
0:10.1	The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.
0:14.7	No, no, no.
0:17.4	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
0:22.8	The way to understand these stories is to know they are about us. This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence.
0:46.8	Please listen with care.
0:58.0	Previously in part one of the white noise in your head. I thought that Darnell was going to be my happily ever after.
1:03.0	I was all in with him. From the get-go, I was all in.
1:07.0	And I thought we were going to be like this young power couple.
1:10.0	That night, he offered me his grandmother's ring. and I thought we were going to be like this young power couple.
1:14.6	That night, he offered me his grandmother's ring, and when I told him it wouldn't be right if I accepted it,
1:18.6	he slapped me so fast and so hard
1:22.6	that my face hit the passenger side window.
1:26.6	You say, why didn't you leave?
1:28.3	I think that's not a fair question to ask.
1:31.3	I was the one being hurt.
1:33.3	Why aren't you saying to him,
1:35.3	why don't you stop putting your hands on this woman?
1:38.3	I didn't think I had shot him.
1:41.3	He screamed,
1:43.3	bitch, get back here. He screamed, bitch, get back here.
1:46.0	He said, bitch, get back here.
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