Episode 19

Campus violence. Revenge porn. And. Hope.

May 10, 2024 (prerecorded 5/7): Vermont's Attorney General Charity R. Clark and Shari, an advocate with The Woman's Freedom Center (WFC), discuss two efforts that passed the state House and Senate this session. S.120, focused on postsecondary schools and sexual misconduct. The Legislature also updated its revenge porn law to include nonconsensual deep fake porn.

As the WFC commemorates its 50th anniversary, Shari and Charity also reflect on what the last 50 years has meant for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.

To read S.120: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/S.120

View AG Clark's testimony on S.120: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjRciMx9AZ0

We referenced the memoir, "Know My Name" by Chanel Miller: https://bookshop.org/p/books/know-my-name-a-memoir-chanel-miller/15735340?ean=9780735223721

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://www.rhtt.net/

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Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.