Child sexual abuse advocate Grace Tame discusses her experiences with fame, the pressures of being thrust into the spotlight, and the challenges of finding respite. She reflects on a controversial photo call that captured public attention and the ongoing struggle against media misrepresentation.
‘If you resist the forces outside of your control, they only hurt more’ … Grace Tame in Hobart, Tasmania. Photograph: Remi Chauvin/The Guardian
Here, she is enveloped in her home habitat, around the corner from her father’s place and a stone’s throw from her grandparents’. She runs this path at least once a month, chasing active meditation as a foil to her role as CEO of the Grace Tame Foundation, working to improve child abuse prevention and responses.
For a long time, victim-survivorship was seen as a one-note experience that defined an individual, which is bullshit And while it may be true that the best humour is not about making fun of others, she “will probably be making a few laughs at the expense of Mr Bester because he is a bit of a comedy piñata”. In one of her jokes, she describes him as having the child sexual offender starter pack: “He wears New Balance 1080s, he’s a Catholic schoolteacher, he plays the fucking organ. All he needs is a Mr Whippy van and he’s got the full set.
Tame’s knuckles are inkily etched with her grandparents’ surnames: Tame and Free. Those hands do their own drafting, often in biro, usually hyperreal and swirling with icons from the many lives that have so far fitted into her years. For Tame has survived low lows, made even more extraordinary by their timing. Nine months before receiving the Australian of the Year award, she was living in Los Angeles, where life “was rough as guts”.
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