Lacy Crawford: ...the importance of finding the courage to tell your story

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Our guest on this episode is Lacy Crawford, author of the book, "Notes On A Silencing: A Memoir". It's the story of Lacy’s sexual assault as a teenager by two fellow students at the one of the top boarding schools in the country. The Washington Post calls the book, “A haunting exploration of the systemic ways assault victims are ignored.” Her website is https://lacycrawford.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.5	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	Our guest on this episode is Lacey Crawford, author of the new book, Notes on a Silencing, a Memoir, which is one of
0:22.8	the most anticipated books of the year. It's the story of Lacey's sexual assault as a teenager
0:28.3	by two fellow students at the elite St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, which is one of
0:33.4	the top boarding schools in the country. The Washington Post calls the book a haunting exploration of
0:39.2	the systemic ways assault victims are ignored. Lacey, we thank you so very much for joining us.
0:45.5	I'm so happy to be here. Thank you. How would you describe what happened that night back in
0:51.4	October of 1990? Because I know you write that you had trouble even coming up
0:56.3	with a word or a phrase to describe what happened. Oh, sure. I didn't have any words for what had
1:02.7	happened to me the moment I was able to leave their room. I mean, the details are pretty widely
1:08.5	distributed in media now. People can, you know, click and find out
1:12.9	what it was that happened. But I think it was actually a very ordinary assault. I was a 15-year-old
1:18.0	girl. I received a phone call on the payphone in my boarding school dorm. This was long
1:23.5	before cell phones. From a student who is a senior, who was a very popular, prominent athlete,
1:29.7	who had a long-term girlfriend. They were one of those couples that as a younger student,
1:34.6	you sort of gazed at when they walked down the hall. You know, they would move sort of like
1:38.6	sharks and all the other fish would, you know, give them some space and then form up again
1:42.9	behind them. And I didn't understand why he was calling me.
1:47.2	I was flattered, but obviously it had nothing to do with romance.
1:51.0	Not that's where that was headed, but he sounded like he was crying and he asked for my help.
1:58.0	And I was young enough and naive enough and sort of teenage enough
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