Jen Lindsey

The domestic violence you don't see
By Jen Lindsey, guest editorialist
October 03, 2016
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. In the past year, two domestic violence-related hashtags have made a huge impact on social media. One in the summer of 2015 began close to home for us. A young Sioux Falls woman was physically assaulted by her boyfriend while she was driving. She later asked a friend, who was a photographer, to do a photo shoot showing her black eyes and bruising.…
'It's not your fault'
By Jen Lindsey, Southwest Crisis Center, Rock County office
April 25, 2016
Dear survivors of sexual assault, It’s not your fault. You didn’t ask for it. I believe you. You might be thinking that you’re not a victim of sexual violence because you weren’t kicking and screaming or because it was someone you knew. The truth is that 82 percent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone the victim knows. Sexual assault is not only what most people think of as rape. If…

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