PUBLIC AWARENESS
Posters
Your campaign stopped me dead in my tracks…I saw your posters in Belfast and for the first time truly recognized the abuse I endured. Thank you for validating my experience – I can’t tell you how much that acknowledgement meant to me.
4,000 huge posters have papered downtown business windows of 90 Maine towns in two years. Smaller posters are also in every Goodwill dressing room, all Maine Family Planning Clinics, seasonal worker housing and medical vans, and most Maine high schools. Bathrooms of restaurants, employee break rooms, and changing rooms of boutiques, too.
Each poster features one of 45 named Maine survivors aged 18 to 82, letting women trapped in domestic abuse know 'You are not alone' and of the resources that are out there, while alerting and educating the public.
As you travel across Maine, how many of us can you see and hear?
Bookmarks
Pocket-size versions of our posters with the part of the survivor’s customized Power and Control Wheel on the back!
High School Librarian Iris Eichenlaub
Old Town Police Chief Scott Wilcox
AIO is one of 30 food pantries distributing our bookmarks.
Nikki Maonis of the Camden Public Library said the first YES! to our bookmarks in 2020.
Let’s Talk About It Tour
Our “Let’s Talk About It” tour of survivors leading community conversations launched in the Scarborough Public Library in October 2022, and brought us to 40 towns since then. Look for us getting even louder across Maine in 2024
SURVIVOR VOICES
Laura and Amanda, victims of Corey Faulkner, break their silence in a conversation with Patrisha.
Watch the NewsCenter Maine piece about Patrisha’s conversation with Laura and Amanda.
Patrisha McLean with Amanda Close and Laura Biscula. Amanda needs to co-parent with domestic violence felon. Laura is the mother of Mikayla, who was Corey’s wife when she killed herself, and maintains that the system in Maine is showing preference to this domestic felon over her in regards to the safety of her grandson.
“Thank you again for making us feel safe while uplifting our voices. My gratitude is beyond words.” — Laura Biscula
More Survivor Voices
Maine Film Center, February 2023
Millinocket Memorial Library, Millinocket, Maine, October 2023
Camden Public Library, November 2023
Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 2023
Skidompha Library, Damariscotta, November 2023
Click above to hear the audio recording from the Northeast Harbor Library event
Misogyny in Music
Misogyny runs through the Great American Songbook from the first page, and here is a shocking, infuriating selection in four hour-long radio programs put together by Resa Randolph. Resa is singer/songwriter who hosts The Orange Blossom Special bluegrass show on Belfast Community Radio