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Quinton Donleavy 7/21/22 Quinton Donleavy 7/21/22

Domestic violence survivors spread their message

BIDDEFORD — For 10 years, Rebekah Lowell of Biddeford was in an abusive relationship — longer if you count the four years of dating before she married her ex-husband. He not only physically abused her, she said, but “abuse is also about power and control.”

Quinton Donleavy 7/13/22 Quinton Donleavy 7/13/22

Finding Our Voices Breaks the Silence in Biddeford

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Patrisha McLean 6/26/22 Patrisha McLean 6/26/22

Finding Our Voices exhibit to be shown starting in July at the UMaine Hutchinson Center

“Finding Our Voices,” an exhibit featuring Patrisha McLean’s photo portraits of 43 Maine survivors of domestic abuse, opens Thursday, July 7, in the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont Ave.

Patrisha McLean 6/26/22 Patrisha McLean 6/26/22

Finding Our Voices is going to the movies

Two movies starring Maine domestic violence survivors are premiering Saturday, July 16 at the 25th Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, sharing the stage with the award-winning documentary “And So I Stayed,” about women serving long prison sentences for killing their abusers.

Patrisha McLean 6/6/22 Patrisha McLean 6/6/22

Finding Our Voices: ‘What love is and what love is not’ community art

What love is and what love is not, as expressed by Midcoast Maine K-12 students, is papering Camden, Rockport, Rockland, and Thomaston through the month of June in the Finding Our Voices community-wide Love/not Love exhibit.