Taking back control: how a remote island in Alaska tackled domestic abuse [theguardian.com]

Alicia Doktor 2/12/1812:00 PM

When Stacy Bourdukofsky’s abusive ex-husband touched down on the small island where they live to stand trial for strangling his girlfriend and whacking a man in the head with a bat, she was waiting to board the outbound flight on the same jet.

She’d gone to extreme measures to escape him in the past, and she wasn’t about to let him unnerve her this time around.

“My first marriage was a nightmare. It was constant drinking, and it was always beatings. I would end up with severe black eyes to where I couldn’t see out of one eye,” said Bourdukofsky, 37, a no-nonsense mom who hunts reindeer and coaches basketball. “I had no support. I had nobody to talk to back then.”

[For more on this story by Jill Burke, go to https://www.theguardian.com/us...-alcoholism-shelters]

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