IN CONVERSATION: Grace Tame

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Good morning wonderful Shameless community. Today on the show, we bring you the absolute force that is Grace Tame. When Grace was just 15 years old, she was repeatedly groomed and raped by a 58-year-old maths teacher who taught at her Tasmanian high school. While - after serving his jail sentence - her perpetrator was allowed to speak about his crimes with the media, Grace legally wasn’t: she was prevented by law from sharing her story with the world. So, she decided to do something about it. Together with journalist and activist Nina Funnell, they created the #LetHerSpeak Campaign, which sought to overturn gag laws in Tasmania, the Northern Territory, and, more recently, Victoria. Grace’s voice has been so powerful and so necessary in the space of law reform, that in January, she was named our 2021 Australian of the Year. A content warning before you listen to today’s chat - in this episode we discuss issues regarding grooming, child sexual abuse, eating disorders, self-harm and suicide, and may be triggering for some listeners. For more from Grace, follow her on Instagram @tamepunk. We urge you to check out the work of Bravehearts, a child safety foundation dedicated to preventing child sexual assault and exploitation in Australia. Support them in any way you can via their website, bravehearts.org.au. If you’d like to seek support or advice, Braveheart’s support line is 1800 272 831. If this is your first time checking us out (hey, you), we are an independent media company that is dedicated to telling young women’s stories. The best way to support Shameless is to click ‘Follow’ on your Spotify app, and to tell your mates about us. We will reward such good behaviour with a puppy! Not everything in this paragraph is true! To catch up on everything Shameless, head to our website www.shamelessthepodcast.com. This episode was produced by Annabelle Lee for Shameless Media.

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0:00.0	A content warning before we jump into today's episode. This conversation is a heavy but really important one.
0:06.4	We discuss issues regarding grooming, child sexual abuse, eating disorders, self-harm and suicide,
0:12.3	and therefore it may be triggering for some of our
0:14.2	listeners. We also understand that given recent news events in the current climate
0:18.3	this is a really difficult time for sexual assault survivors. We are thinking of you,
0:22.2	we are with you and help is available at 1-800 respect.
0:26.0	Shameless media and Grace Tame want to use this episode to platform the incredible work of Brave Hearts,
0:32.0	a child safety foundation dedicated to preventing child
0:34.6	sexual assault and exploitation in Australia.
0:38.3	One of the areas he went wrong is in underestimating how much I was loved and how powerful real love is.
0:47.6	Because despite the years that it's taken me to rebuild trust in myself and with other people.
0:55.0	Because of the relentless loving, the pure genuine love of my family, I have been able to reconnect with myself and
1:06.1	reconnect with other people by re-establishing trust. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello and welcome to this in-conversation episode of Shameless with the
1:37.8	absolute force that is Grace team. When Grace was just 15 years old, she was repeatedly groomed and raped by a 58-year-old
1:45.5	math teacher who taught at her Tasmanian high school and was eventually found guilty and jailed.
1:51.6	While her perpetrator was allowed to speak about his crimes with the media, Grace
1:55.2	legally wasn't. She was prevented by law from sharing her story with the world. So she decided
2:00.9	to do something about it. Together with journalists and activist Nina Finel,
2:05.3	the duo created the Let Her Speak campaign,
2:07.8	which sought to overturn gag laws in Tasmania,
2:10.4	the Northern Territory, and more recently in Victoria.
2:14.0	Grace's voice has been so powerful and so necessary in the space of law reform that in January
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