# expanded immersive (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover expanded immersive. Page: Feed: --- ## [What Were You Wearing? Documenting the Violence that Shapes the Lives of Women and Children](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/what-were-you-wearing-documenting) _2026-06-02 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ Watch now | An immersive survivor-centred documentary art exhibit curated for the Michigan Justice for Children Conference, July 29-20, 2026. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200333829/cf7060e9f4040228cd03b955502014ae.mp3) ## [Why Didn't She Just Leave? Documenting the Violence that Prevents Women from Leaving the Men Who Abuse Them](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/why-didnt-she-just-leave-documenting) _2026-05-22 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ It isn't a decision to stay. It is an attempt to stay alive. ## [Trauma like a camera flash](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/trauma-like-a-camera-flash) _2026-05-15 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ It can be so blinding that, in its aftermath, one can no longer see anything at all. ## [Without a Trace](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/without-a-trace) _2026-05-13 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ In drug-facilitated sexual assault, the evidence often vanishes before it can even be collected. ## [What Were You Wearing?](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/what-were-you-wearing-24e) _2026-05-12 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ How a single question became a global survivor-led movement for change ## [A look inside the Church's "playbook for concealing the truth.” What it really knew about the abuse of children. What it chose to hide. And how that concealment was engineered & achieved for decades.](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/a-look-inside-the-churchs-playbook) _2026-05-09 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid "scandal." - 2018, Pennsylvania grand jury. ## [Clergy abuse records don't tell the whole story. They don't talk about grooming. The way entire families were lured into believing grown men kissing little girls was normal.](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/the-records-of-priest-abuse-in-chicago) _2026-05-08 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ Because obedience is itself part of the architecture. And why so many of us didn't know we could say no. ## [Because child abuse is not "seduction." A scouting storyboard from the "What Were You Wearing?" exhibits.](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/because-child-abuse-is-not-seduction) _2026-05-07 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ It is predatory grooming and coercive control by an adult in a position of authority for the purpose of committing sexual abuse against a child. Calling it seduction implies collaboration. It is not. ## [The credibility of our truths will not be defined by the limits of anyone else's imagination or what "makes sense" to them.](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/the-credibility-of-our-truths-will) _2026-05-06 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ In the case of Robert Hadden, it took the limits of just one woman’s imagination to allow a predator who had already been taken into custody unfettered access to vulnerable women. ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pG4a2Pm09ZlM) _2026-05-06 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Because art matters, and great art is inspirational](https://marysimmerling.substack.com/p/because-art-matters-and-great-art) _2026-05-06 · Mary Simmerling, Ph.D. · Write Where We Belong_ A poem inspired by "namesake" by Tianyi Li