Recently Unstoppable, a Planned Parenthood initiative that promotes full equality for women and LGBTQ people, released a new animated film by Alexa Lim Haas that brings to life the fundamental belief that your body is your own.
Everyday, I is an animated exploration of the ways the trauma and threat of sexualized violence infiltrate the everyday routines of various women. It focuses not on the offenders’ actions, but instead on the longterm reverberations their acts have on their victims' sense of self, freedom of expression, and ability to trust.
“I don’t know yet what it is to feel powerful, but I am in the process of dismantling years of anxiety and paranoia from my own sexual trauma,” said director Haas, who was selected by Filmmaker magazine as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2017.
[For more on this story by ROBERTO GUILLEN, go to https://www.advocate.com/women...ual-trauma-survivors]
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