Finding Our Voices breaks the silence of domestic abuse in York County

Voices: Cuts to Utah humanities organizations will further silence voices like mine

I remember the first time I was part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. It was 2015, and my first book — “Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis” — had just been published. I’d never thought that day would come, and I never thought that I would be able to hold up a book festival program and see my name printed on it as a highlighted writer in Weber County. I held it up. I held it up high. I kept copies. Utah Humanities even paid me to talk and r…

Finding Our Voices breaks the silence of domestic abuse in York County

SOUTH BERWICK — Finding Our Voices papered South Berwick with posters featuring the faces and voices of Maine domestic abuse survivors on April 3 to commemorate “one of our sisters who didn’t make it,” according to the nonprofit’s CEO and Founder Patrisha McLean.     Sherri Sweet, 37, was shot on March 23 in her home in South Berwick. Her boyfriend has been charged with the murder.  “Attention must be paid to the femicide in Maine,” McLean said,…