Silent Evidence: Not the Right Time
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode one of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse.
Tennessee Watson is a documentarian and artist who has been struggling to speak out about something that happened to her when she was a kid, something that she knew was wrong. When Tennessee was seven her gymnastics coach fondled her vulva. In part one of Silent Evidence, Tennessee takes us in and out of her memories, from childhood to adolescence as she comes to terms with what happened to her and finally revisiting the gym where she was abused.
Find out more about Silent Evidence here.
Produced by Tennessee Watson and Kaitlin Prest, with The Heart. Editing by Sharon Mashihi.
This project was made possible with funding from the IWMF Howard Buffett Fund for Women Journalists.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Maddie Kelly. I'm a writer and comedian and along with my co-host, Mark |
| 0:04.6 | Chavez, and Ryan Biel. We are setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that |
| 0:09.5 | is genuinely romantic and actually funny. |
| 0:12.9 | Give me something that's both sexy and romantic. |
| 0:15.6 | LaCrosse. The sport. |
| 0:18.2 | And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. People |
| 0:22.3 | who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia. |
| 0:25.5 | This is all gold. |
| 0:27.7 | It's Let's Bake a Rom-com. |
| 0:29.4 | Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to The Heart. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Caitlin Prest. If you're new to The Heart, just want to let you know that this is a |
| 0:44.6 | show about love and sex and bodies. Sometimes we make stories about things like |
| 0:50.3 | breakups or kinks or kissing and other times we do stories that look at big social |
| 0:57.4 | problems like misogyny, transphobia. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm going to tell you newcomers and heart lovers alike were kind of in an intense phase |
| 1:07.5 | right now. But that doesn't mean you can't go back and listen to the Ghost series or the |
| 1:12.4 | first kiss episode if you're in the mood for something light. |
| 1:17.6 | And that is not to say that there aren't going to be light moments in what is to come. |
| 1:21.7 | But it still warrants a trigger warning. |
| 1:25.0 | For the past year we've been working with Documentarian and artist Tennessee Watson to craft |
| 1:29.4 | a personal story about child sexual abuse. It's her story and we'll be releasing it weekly |
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