Surviving & Thriving w/ Yehudis Fletcher

My guest this week is survivor, thriver and activist, Yehudis Fletcher. Now, full disclosure, this podcast was recorded on the understanding that we’d be talking about Yehudis’s journey to where she is today, rather than delve into the specifics of the abuse she was subjected to as a teenager - Yehudis has spoken and written about that extensively and there’s more than enough available online to find if you’d like to learn more for context. We talk here about her background as a Charedi Jew, the coverup of the abuse by the community who should have protected her and how that has led her to fight extremism not only within Ultra Orthodox jewry but within the wider community as well. We discuss the parallels between her experiences & the recent Netflix tv phenomenon, Unorthodox and she quite rightly smashes some misconceptions I had about both her background and the work she now does so well, within organisations such as Migdal Emunah - a support service for survivors of sexual abuse - and Nahamu - an organisation Yehudis founded to ensure that members of all religious communities have access to education, autonomous choice & the ability to exercise this choice without intimidation, coercion or undue influence. The poem we discuss can be found here - nahamu.org/kinah-from-a-survivor-of-child-sexual-abuse/ Migdal Emunah, the support service for survivors of sexual abuse & their families is migdalemunah.org.uk Nahamu, Yehudis’s organisation that battles extremism within religious communities is nahamu.org and Yehudis has also shared the website for Women’s Aid, who work to make women & children safe - it’s womensaid.org.uk -- If you'd like to support Sod's Law you can become a Sod's Law patron at patreon.com/sodspod from as little as £1 /$1 a month - there are different tiers including ad-free episodes, giveaways and more!