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The Survivor Behind The Picture: Kathleen Milliken

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Thousands of viewers of the music video PSA of The Rose will have seen the portraits of 6 survivors of violence against women who courageously and generously allowed us to include their picture in the video, knowing that a global audience will see their faces and note their signs that they are survivors and wonder about the stories behind their hard-won smiles. Our third story features Kathleen Milliken, a survivor and founder of Project Empowerment and Climb For Empowerment:

Let not the pain of the past define who you are, but what you’ve made yourself because of it.  Like many, I had a choice and fled abuse many years ago.  I chose to rebuild my life and start again from scratch.  I’m a firm believer that all healing and empowerment begins from within.

Music is a powerful tool to help heal the wounds from the past, to help bring peace into our hearts. My hope is that something as simple as sharing my picture with The Pixel Project’s Music for Pixels campaign will inspire others to choose their own path and find their way to heal from abuse.

 

 

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Inspired by Kathleen’s story? Why not share our first Music For Pixels music video PSA (http://bit.ly/PixelRoseVid) with your friends and family to help us reach 1 million views and to raise funds towards our US$1 million fundraising goal towards our Celebrity Male Role Model Pixel Reveal campaign in aid of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence andWomen’s Aid Organisation Malaysia?

A Very Pixel Project “Thank You”: Another 25 Fabulous Facebook Pages You Should Check Out and Like

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With the Music For Pixels campaign entering its 4th week with over 50,000 views of The Rose by our first featured artiste – AHMIR, YouTube’s number one R&B group, we would like to say A HUGE THANK YOU to the following Pixel Project partners, anti-Violence Against Women nonprofits and Facebook pages for their support for the campaign and for helping us get the word out on their Facebook pages (and in some cases, on their blogs and on Twitter) as we work towards our goal of 1 million views and downloads!

Be sure to click on their names to check out their Facebook pages – they are listed according to category and in alphabetical order below!

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The Survivor Behind The Picture: Eliska Hahn

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Thousands of viewers of the music video PSA of The Rose will have seen the portraits of 6 survivors of violence against women who courageously and generously allowed us to include their picture in the video, knowing that a global audience will see their faces and note their signs that they are survivors and wonder about the stories behind their hard-won smiles. Our second story featuring Eliska Hahn, a survivor and The Pixel Project’s volunteer Music Campaigns Coordinator:

I am a multiple survivor of both rape and domestic violence.  For the first 30+ years of my life I firmly believed I had “bad luck” or there was something uniquely wrong with me and that was why these terrible things kept happening over and over in my life.

It was through organisations like The Pixel Project that I learned that I was in no way alone and, more importantly, that it wasn’t my fault.  I am so very proud honoured to now be a Pixel Project Team Member and to be pictured in AHMIR’s amazing video for “The Rose”.  I hope every person that views it will see that there is life after abuse and it is not a life of just surviving but thriving.  I feel the Music For Pixels campaign will reach and educate a whole new group of people and that, together, we can put an end to violence against women in our lifetime.

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Inspired by Eliska’s story? Why not share our first Music For Pixels music video PSA (http://bit.ly/PixelRoseVid) with your friends and family to help us reach 1 million views and to raise funds towards our US$1 million fundraising goal towards our Celebrity Male Role Model Pixel Reveal campaign in aid of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence andWomen’s Aid Organisation Malaysia?

The Survivor Behind The Picture: Barbara Satterfield Kinsey

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Thousands of viewers of the music video PSA of The Rose will have seen the portraits of 6 survivors of violence against women who courageously and generously allowed us to include their picture in the video, knowing that a global audience will see their faces and note their signs that they are survivors and wonder about the stories behind their hard-won smiles. Wonder no more, for here is the first of their stories featuring Barbara Satterfield Kinsey, a survivor and long-time Pixel Project volunteer:

Violence and abuse were the story of my life. From the time I was old enough to remember, boys and grown men were abusive in one way or another – verbally, physically, emotionally, sexually – to me and to my mother. I knew it was wrong and prayed daily as a little girl that God would send Wonder Woman to come rescue us. With the revelation of sexual abuse to me came stalking, threats and the requirement to start a new life in a new city.

This did not bring an end to abuse however. It started anew with emotional and verbal abuse to me and my mother by a new man in our lives. Naturally, I dropped out of high school and moved in with…another abuser. Only by the grace of God was I rescued from a man who would have surely put me six feet under sooner rather than later.

My life has moved on, to the realm of marriage to a great man, with children and a career. I always wanted to give back but could not figure out how. An email from the NCADV offered the opportunity to serve with a new anti-Violence Against Women non-profit, called The Pixel Project. It is my honour to volunteer to help others stop violence against women of all kinds. Recently, I was asked to allow my picture to be part of the Music For Pixels campaign. I want to be a face identified as a survivor, a warrior, a conqueror – to give hope to those who have none.”

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If Barbara’s story resonates with you, why not share our first Music For Pixels music video PSA (http://bit.ly/PixelRoseVid) with your friends and family to help us reach 1 million views and to raise funds towards our US$1 million fundraising goal towards our Celebrity Male Role Model Pixel Reveal campaign in aid of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence andWomen’s Aid Organisation Malaysia

A Very Pixel Project “Thank You”: 25 Fabulous Facebook Pages You Should Check Out and Like

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With the Music For Pixels campaign in full swing as The Pixel Project’s Music Campaigns team and Street Team works on getting us snowballing towards 1 million views of The Rose by our first featured artiste – AHMIR, YouTube’s number one R&B group – we would like to say A HUGE THANK YOU to the following Pixel Project partners, anti-Violence Against Women nonprofits and Facebook pages for their support for the campaign and for helping us get the word out on their Facebook pages (and in some cases, on their blogs and on Twitter).

Be sure to click on their names to check out their Facebook pages – they are listed according to category and in alphabetical order below!

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An Invitation To Musicians: 10 Covers of ‘The Rose’ and Joining the “Music For Pixels” YouTube Cover Carnival

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When AHMIR, the Number 1 R&B group on YouTube, offered to cover ‘The Rose’ for our Music For Pixels campaign, we were delighted because it is a classic song that beautifully articulates the themes of love, hope, courage and the strength to survive. These are themes that are central to many a survivor’s journey to rebuilding and thriving after the violence.

The closing verse in particular says what speaks to many a survivor’s heart and experience:

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed
That with the sun’s love, in the spring
Becomes the rose

Amanda McBroom wrote ‘The Rose’ in 1977 as her answer to the question: “What do you think love is?”. She said:

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