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The Conversation
Boxing empowered me to express my trauma – now, I help other abuse survivors do the same, combining it with creative writing
"I felt drawn to boxing, its visceral nature. The prospect of hitting someone in the face and maybe even knocking them out excited me."
Published... Or Not
Donna Lyon and Fin J Ross
'Left/Write/Hook' is an anthology of works generated in Donna Lyon's writing workshop which is giving voice to victims of abuse.This year Fin J Ross won the highly prized trophy from the Sisters in Crime. Her short story ‘Tuesday Jocks’ is one of the winning stories in ‘Scarlet Stiletto: The Fourteenth Cut’.
Filmink
Film review: Insightful and deeply personal
A confronting insight into the healing journey of eight individuals, all survivors of childhood sexual abuse, the film highlights their voices, providing a platform to speak, where before so many survivors have moved through life feeling powerless and unheard.
University of Melbourne
Adult survivors take back their power in documentary film 'Left Write Hook'
Melbourne-based production company Sweetshop & Green has been awarded production funding from Screen Australia for its feature documentary film Left Write Hook, which follows an evidence-based research program, derived out of a University of Melbourne creativity and wellbeing research initiative.
Writing + Boxing = Left / Write // Hook
Donna Lyon, Claire Gaskin, and Gabrielle Everall
Published in TEXT 26 (Special 67): 1–18 , 20 August 2022
Roll with the punches
1 in 3 Women, Let's Talk About It
1 in 3 women experience sexual abuse, that's what Dr. Donna Lyon told me in this conversation. (congrats on the shiny new PhD Doc)
Donna and I met recently and in some ways we both felt at times like we were sitting in front of a mirror. Hearing our story relayed to us as someone else told it as their own, in a way. So very similar, so very different.
Conscious Combat Club
Left Write Hook with Donna Lyon
Donna Lyon is the Founder of LEFT / WRITE // HOOK. A multi-modal creative arts research project and documentary designed to help women who have experienced sexual abuse and trauma find a connection to their body, mind and spirit through weekly transformative writing and boxing workshops.
Left / Write // Hook: A mixed method study of a writing and boxing workshop for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and trauma
Donna Lyon, Shannon Owen, Margaret S. Osborne, Khandis Blake, Bruna Andrades
Published in International Journal of Wellbeing 10 (5): 64-82