For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #49
Surveilling the state and navigating trauma - the light topics as usual for us this week.
Another raucous week of ruckus romping for the merry band of pirates at PRR. If you didn’t catch it, our fearless leader
made an appearance on the excellent Fraudish podcast with Kelly Paxton in her episode titled: Diversity of Thought in Fraud and Investigations. If you have ever wanted to learn how a CEO wrangles a pirate ship full of miscreants, maintains balance and weeds out bias in a difficult line of work - well here’s your chance.Bullshit Hunting subscribers this week were treated to an article from
titled: Surveilling the State: Drone Hunting. Justin walks us through how to trace the flow of money from local governments all the way out to Chinese drone supplier DJI and their largest American distributor.What Kennedy is Reading
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Lewis Herman MD
While I’m still working my way through it, and it’s coming with me to France this week, I am taking a lot away from this read so far.
“From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” (New York Times) manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma.
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse.
The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is simply to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. In Truth and Repair, she commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities.
Deeply researched and compassionately told, Truth and Repair envisions a new path to justice for all.”
Can be bought wherever you purchase books.
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