Tag: advocacy

Advocacy is the appropriately bounded use of voice, access, knowledge, position, or resources to help protect another person’s agency, safety, dignity, reality, or access to support.

Captivity-informed advocacy does not replace survivor authorship or convert the advocate into the primary interpreter of the survivor’s life. It should increase access and usable freedom rather than create another dependency or authority structure.

  • The Faithful Witness

    When Conscience Remains Alive Captivity does not persist only because harm remains hidden. Sometimes harm is visible. Distress is visible. Collapse is visible. The loss of agency is visible. The survivor speaks. The body changes. Relationships disappear. The cost accumulates.…

  • No Witness, No Advocacy, No One Looking

    Some forms of captivity are recognizable from the outside. There is a category. A vocabulary. A known danger. Someone knows what to look for. An advocate may know what questions to ask. A professional may recognize the signs. A community…