More Than A Survivor: Rape, Activism and what comes next with Sarah Super

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, Sarah Super was raped by her ex-boyfriend Alex Neal. And she channeled that act of violence into a mission-driven organization that helped survivors of sexual violence feel seen and heard. 9 years after the night that changed her life, Sarah reflects on what it means to move forward with her life and to reclaim her identity as more than a survivor. Sarah was a guest on the first season of our podcast.

To hear Sarah's original episode, Unbroken, click here.

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0:00.0	Um, how are you?
0:05.0	Most people answer that question with fine or good.
0:09.0	But obviously it's not always fine and it's usually not even that good.
0:15.0	This is a podcast that asks people to be honest about their pain.
0:21.0	To just be honest about how they really feel, about the hard parts of life.
0:30.0	And guess what?
0:32.2	It's complicated. I'm Nora McNernie. And this is terrible. Thanks
0:39.7	for asking. It's almost like that Pandora's box of like are we sure we want to go there
0:45.9	Nora like are we sure we want to open that door in the back of my brain like
0:50.4	past the dust and the cab webs and just like are we are we actually gonna you
0:56.9	know hit that willy walk a red button and like blast into that space.
1:01.1	If you've been listening to our show since the beginning you might recognize that voice from our seventh episode
1:10.0	titled Unbroken. That voice belongs to Sarah Super, a rape survivor who lived through many people's worst nightmare. In February 2015, Sarah was moving on from a breakup with her ex-boyfriend Alec Neal.
1:27.2	She and her mother had gone to Mexico for a girls trip and Sarah returned to her St Paul
1:32.1	Minnesota apartment feeling refreshed and peaceful.
1:36.8	She didn't know that Alec Neal had been hiding in her closet waiting for her to return.
1:42.3	She didn't know that he had a knife and a sheet.
1:45.0	She didn't know that after she unpacked and got ready for bed, he would rape her, cut her,
1:51.0	and that she would escape with her life and that he would flee and that she
1:56.0	would find herself in a legal system that shames and silences victims and
2:00.5	that she would be the one to break that silence and make the space for others to do the same.
2:07.0	She didn't know that she would become a voice for survivors of sexual violence.
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