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Brighter the lights, the darker the shadows

We all have our own Soho story. What’s yours? Mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers: we’re all familiar with the words we quietly mouth, the moments and memories that are rarely, if ever, brought into the light. But, in recent years, there’s been something of a corrective offered, culturally. Specifically, a series of searing female-created films and TV shows tackling abuse and female trauma head on, shoulders back: , , , . Work that shows its complexities, its messiness,

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