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“He Won't Hurt Us Anymore”: A Feminist Performance of Healing for Children Who Witness Domestic Violence

This autoethnographic essay is my attempt to work through a history of violence my mother's ex-husband enacted on us. At the intersection of trauma, memory, and performance, I have uncovered the violent moments that haunted my adolescence and early adulthood and led to feelings of helplessness, fear, and anger. Feminist storytelling helps untangle my victim identity from the powerful moments of my survivorship. I hope that the stories I share of my embodied experiences of gendered violence demonstrate the significance of feminist storytelling for survivors of domestic violence. Looking to feminism as a performance of healing from memories of trauma is a new way to move feminism from the theoretical to the pragmatic. Communication scholars must investigate more of these narratives to secure feminism's place as a forum for healing.