By sharing the raw reality of victim blaming when challenging the status quo. The power of lived experience can powerfully bring the ‘unspeakable’ to society’s conscious awareness (Herman, 1992 Balfour, 2013). It attempts to link social action to PTG in its reflections on meaning and redemption beyond shame via activism and lived experience witnessing (Bruner, 2002). It adopts a novel approach weaving metaphors taken from episodes of the long-running British television series Doctor Who. This article uses autoethnography to explore one male survivor’s story of childhood sexual violence and his 22-year journey of activism. Activism is one way the survivor can help forge social change both for themselves and the ‘community of interest’ they belong to (Raskovic, 2020 Herman, 1992). Individual survivor identity is formed in that complexity and personal posttraumatic growth (PTG) can be forged in such challenges (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). Sexual violence is a complex cultural challenge for societies (Rape Crisis, 2020). It has been argued that stories inform our perceptions of reality and social change is driven by stories (Sarbin, 1986 Bochner, 2012 Frank, 2011/2013). CEO of a sexual violence service for malesĪutoethnography, sexual violence, survivor, child abuse Abstract
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