Broken Puppets: Sexual Assault and the Fragmentation of the Human Body | Clara Spars | TEDxUCSB

Trigger warning: The following video contains language and content regarding the topic of sexual assault. Clara Spars shares her experiences with rape culture, sexual assault, and the process of healing through sharing her story. Clara Spars is a freshman at Stanford University. Originally from Santa Rosa, California, she spent the past year studying Mandarin in Beijing, China on a government-sponsored language intensive scholarship. She recently published a short story about a moment from this experience called “Domino” on New World Writing magazine (previously known as Mississippi Review Online), and received a National Gold Key Medal at The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2016 in the personal essay/memoir category for her essay titled “The Zombie.” Clara has performed at the Moth StorySLAM, a live storytelling event in Berkeley, California. On campus, she is an Ambassador for the Stanford Office of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse Education and Response, a staff writer for The Stanford Daily, an English tutor for the Stanford Habla program, and a member of the Stanford Storytelling Project. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx