TED Audio Collective.

We have to reorient ourselves to, this won't take five years or ten years or four presidential terms or five.

It's going to take a minimum of a hundred years.

From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. of a hundred years.

From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

On Design Matters, Debbie talks with designers and other creative people about what they do,

how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, Sonia Passy talks about how to address the problem of gender violence.

This problem in our society is of such great magnitude that there is no one solution that will fix it.

Sonia Passy is the founder and CEO of a national organization named Free From. Free from what, you might ask?

Well, free from what our society and the whole world is not very good at talking about.

Free from gender-based violence, free from intimate partner violence, and free from violence against women and children.

Free from is the organization that has helped tens of thousands of survivors and is also helping

to change the conversation about how survivors can heal and thrive.

Sonia Passy is a veteran activist who's been added since high school, and part of

activism is getting the word out, and one way to get the word out is to make a movie. So Sonia

recently produced the documentary Survivor Made about women who have turned their pain into possibility.

We're going to talk about the film and a whole lot more in today's episode.

Sonia Passy, welcome to Design Matters.

Thank you for having me, Debbie.

Sonia, I understand that when you were five years old,

you started an illustrated bookmark-making business.

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