Heidi Yewman

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England and Guns

When my son was in high school in Washington State, he told me he had a personal exit plan for every one of his classrooms,

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Gloria and Me

I never met Gloria Steinem, but she was there at a pivotal moment for me, when the most prominent piece of writing I’d ever done

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Before We Ever Met

I was enthralled with Dave before I met him. I was starting my second summer as a camp counselor at Camp Weequaic, an eight-week sleep-away

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The Cone of Damage

When I was making my documentary Behind the Bullet, I interviewed the trauma surgeon who was reconstructing Christen’s jaw. Christen, one of the four people featured

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Why This Conference Mattered

Speaking at the first conference in the United States devoted entirely to sibling sexual trauma and abuse (SSTA) is something I’ll never forget Yes, you

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Breaking the Silence

In 2018, I was sitting in the second row of a performance of The Vagina Monologues in Santa Monica. At the end of the show,

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My Do-Over

Becoming a parent felt like a do-over of my childhood. I thought I was just trying to give my kids what I didn’t get when

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My Safe Space

During a recent podcast interview, the host asked me where my safe space was when I was growing up. I instinctively said, “My bedroom.” I

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Not a Math Person

Twenty-seven years after the Columbine massacre, I found myself sitting in my high school math teacher’s kitchen, drinking wine with her and her husband late

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The Sound of Silence

“You’re too young to have this kind of hearing loss and constant ringing,” the audiologist said as she squinted at my chart. “Do you work

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Crime vs. Accident

I’ve been thinking a lot about how differently we respond to preventable child deaths. Carter Lee was ten years old. Last September in Burns, Tennessee,

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