Breaking the Silence

Taura Edgar is on a mission to address a public health crisis, supporting survivors, driving prevention and raising conversations to break a cycle of silence and trauma—and ultimately keep children safe

By Rachel Duffell

“How do you invite strangers to a room they’ve never been in to talk about the worst thing that probably ever happened to them in their lives?” asks Taura Edgar. It had taken Edgar three decades to break her own silence after she was raped by her father between the ages of ten and 14. Now, she was inviting other survivors to share their experiences in a peer support group from Talk Hong Kong, an organisation she founded to work to prevent child sexual abuse and support adult survivors. It was 2019, and initially Edgar met mostly with empty rooms, which she actually welcomed. “It let me get over my nerves,” she says. But soon, people started to show up. “It wasn’t comfortable, but it was something I personally needed,…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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