I’ve done a fair amount of media appearances, across TV, radio, print, online, podcast, webcast, you name it. Here’s a selection of media links:
Video and TV:
Interview on ‘Story in the Public Square’ on PBS:
Interview with Mariella Frostrup on Times Radio about Complicit, Dark Chapter & more:
Interview with Nuala McGovern on BBC World News about Dark Chapter:
My TEDx London talk, Reframing the Way We Think about Sexual Violence:
1000 Londoners video portrait of me:
Interview with Niall Paterson, for the Sky News ‘Divided’ Web Series:
15-min talk for Sebasi Lectures: 15 Minutes that Change the World in Seoul, Korea:
Interview with Matt Barbet on Channel 5 News about Dark Chapter:
Interview with i24 News ‘Stateside’ on the Marines photo scandal and my novel:
Amid the marine photo scandal, @winniemli talks to @DavidShuster about her novel inspired by her own experience of being sexually assaulted pic.twitter.com/329BLiKVxN
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) March 7, 2017
Interview on Northern Visions NvTV ‘Novel Ideas’ show:
Clear Lines Festival on Channel 4 News:
I was also one of four rape survivors profiled in the 2-part TV3 Ireland documentary Unbreakable: True Lives, which aired in Ireland in September 2017, launching a nationwide conversation about rape and sexual assault.
Radio and Podcast:
RTE Radio One: The Ryan Tubridy Show (24-min interview)
BBC Radio 5 Live with Nihal Arthanayake (20-min interview, starts at 1:05 in)
Times Radio with Mariella Frostrup (18-min interview)
BBC Radio Four: ‘Four Thought’ (21-min essay)
BBC World Service: ‘The Conversation’ (27-min interview)
BBC Woman’s Hour (15-min radio interview)
Today with Sean O’Rourke, RTE Radio One (12-min interview)
BBC Radio Ulster: ‘The Sunday News’ (14-min interview)
BBC Radio Ulster: ‘The Nolan Show’ (12-min interview)
BBC Sounds Podcast: After: Surviving Sexual Assault (2-part interview)
English PEN podcast (40-min interview)
This Is Strong podcast (90-min interview)
BookBound Festival 2020: ‘Real Live Fiction’ on writing fiction & trauma online panel (1-hr)
Print and Online:
LA Review of Books: Interview, Out of the Darkness: A Conversation with Winnie M Li
The Guardian: Feature article, ‘I fell between the cracks’: Author Winnie M Li on how rape survivors are failed by the system
The Irish Examiner: Interview, Meet the rape victim who turned a new page on trauma
The Belfast Telegraph: Interview, How writing fiction helped me to cope…
The Irish Times: Feature article, ‘Dark Chapter’: My rape, regrowth, and recovery
gal-dem: Interview, ‘Shame is for him, and him alone: the ground-breaking novel written by a survivor of rape’
CrimeReads: Interview, ‘The Radical Empathy of Winnie M Li’
The Journal: Interview, ‘Rape can happen to anyone, we need to listen to people’s stories’
The Daily Mail Online, Femail: Interview with Winnie M Li about her experience
Irish News: Belfast rape victim launches festival tackling sexual assault
SheRa Magazine: Pioneering New Festival Talks About the “Clear Lines” of Sexual Assault
South West Londoner: ‘You can’t have a comedy about rape’? Lambeth Clear Lines Festival breaks the silence on sexual assault
For my own articles that have appeared in various media outlets, click here.
Additional Videos:
My very first public reading of Dark Chapter from Waterstones Piccadilly, April 2017:
I & other survivors appeared in a video series by The Independent, Life After Sexual Violence:
A short video on my PhD research at the LSE:
I also speak in several videos from the Clear Lines Festival, which appear on my Co-Founder’s YouTube channel here:
Media Coverage of Sexual Assault: On the Receiving End
Has social media changed reporting on sexual assault?
The challenges when reporting on international stories of sexual assault:
And this guerilla awareness-raising video, which I scripted and produced: