Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story
Gona Saed on How One Woman Escaped Violence to Empower Thousands
Survival, advocacy and turning lived experience into protection for others.
In this episode
Simona Deifta speaks with Gona Saed in this filmed long-form episode of Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story. The conversation explores survival, advocacy and turning lived experience into protection for others.
Themes in this conversation
- Survival and rebuilding safety
- Advocacy after lived experience
- Protecting women through community work
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Gona Saed:
Care for the women doing the caring
Gona on surviving violence, supporting other women and why the people doing care work need support of their own.
The Do Not Disturb edit
Three things to take with you.
Three ideas from the conversation, in our words.
Do
Make space for women’s needs and voices in the services meant to support them.
Not
Normalise care workers carrying everybody else without support of their own.
Disturb
The idea that a survival story ends at physical escape.
Who cares for the women doing the caring?
Gona shares her experience of surviving violence and how it shaped her work supporting other women. She and Simona discuss making room for women’s needs and voices in the services meant to help them.
They also talk about support for care workers themselves, and why leaving danger is not the end of a woman’s story.
What comes up
- Survival and the life that follows
- Women’s voices in support services
- Support for people doing care work
Keep the conversation going
Mariana Shafro ↗
For another account of displacement and the life beyond survival.
Laura McGrath ↗
For making the needs of women visible in the systems caring for them.
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