| 词条 | Sil Lai Abrams |
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| name = Sil Lai Abrams | birth_date = {{ birth date and age|1970|07|13}} | birth_place = Maui, Hawaii | occupation = Writer | known_for = Domestic violence awareness activism }} Sil Lai Abrams (born July 13, 1970) is a domestic violence awareness activist, National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) award-winning writer and inspirational speaker who has been featured on Al Jazeera America, ABC, BET, CNN , and MSNBC. Sil Lai has also been featured in magazines such as Redbook, ESSENCE, Modern Woman, EBONY, O, The Oprah Magazine. Early lifeSil Lai was born in Maui, Hawaii. The father listed on her birth certificate was a Caucasian American serviceman and her biological mother is ethnically Chinese and born in Hong Kong. Her parents met during the Vietnam War.[1] In 1975, her parents divorced when she was the age of five. After the divorce, her family moved to Seminole County, Florida.[2] For the early part of her life she believed she was racially Caucasian and Chinese due to her father's insistence that her skin color was a result of her being born in Hawaii. At age 14, Sil Lai learned that the man she called her father was not biologically related to her and that her natural father was a black Air America pilot.[3] Personal life and careerIn her late teens and early twenties, Abrams worked as a catalogue fashion model and was represented by Page Parkes Models' Rep in Miami Beach, FL and Dallas, TX, as well as Riccardo Gay in Milan, Italy where she primarily did runway work. For a short while she was employed in an administrative capacity at a number of companies, and eventually worked in the special events industry with a focus on entertainment events. Abrams is a survivor of sexual assault and domestic violence, which prompted her to begin volunteering in domestic violence shelters beginning in the mid-2000s. Since 2007, her work has been primarily focused on domestic violence awareness and prevention in the Black community. In 2007, she self-published her first book No More Drama: Nine Simple Steps to Transforming a Breakdown into a Breakthrough[4]. In 2016, her second book, the memoir Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity was published by Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing[5]. Black Lotus was selected by NPR as one of their 2016 books of the year.[6] She has been a contributing writer to The Grio, EBONY, and Men's Fitness. She has also contributed both reported and opinion pieces for The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post. In 2012, her EBONY magazine essay "Passing Strangely", which detailed her experience of learning her true racial identity won the NABJ Salute to Excellence Award in the Commentary/Essay Category as part of the magazine's "Multiracial in America" package.[7] Abrams is the mother of two adult children. She has been open with her early struggles with alcoholism and has not had a drink since November 1994[8]. She is also a member of the Baha'i Faith. Abrams has also served as a member of the board of directors for the National Domestic Violence Hotline and Safe Horizon. Truth in RealitySil Lai Abrams founded the media advocacy organization Truth in Reality in 2012 to challenge the racially stereotypical media messaging of Black women and girls with the goal of reducing gender-based violence in the black community.[9] Since May 2017, Abrams has been on sabbatical from Truth In Reality following her acceptance as a McBride Scholar at Bryn Mawr College, where she is studying sociology and women's studies. Bibliography
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References1. ^Sil Lai Abrams. (n.d.). Retrieved November 19, 2017, from http://www.greatblackspeakers.com/author/sillaiabrams/ {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Abrams, Sil Lai}}2. ^Byng, R. (October 29, 2012). A Peek Inside Her Agenda: Sil Lai Abrams. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from http://heragenda.com/power-agenda/a-peek-inside-her-agenda-sil-lai-abrams/ 3. ^Sil Lai Abrams. (2017). In Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000324405/LitRC?u=roch82189&sid=LitRC&xid=e043d5fb 4. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E24vz41CzL8 5. ^http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Lotus/Sil-Lai-Abrams/9781451688467 6. ^https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2016/#/tag/biography-and-memoir 7. ^https://www.nabj.org/general/custom.asp?page=STEMAGAZINE2012 8. ^https://twitter.com/Sil_Lai/status/853668012808916992{{Primary source inline|date=February 2019}} 9. ^Lugashi, S. (February 6, 2013). Truth in Reality founder Sil Lai Abrams announces the launch of the Redefining HERstory campaign. Retrieved November 19, 2017, from http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10398516.htm 10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/03/black-lotus-racial-identity|title=In 'Black Lotus,' Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity|publisher=WBUR|dead-url=|access-date=January 4, 2018}} 11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/new-memoir-uncovers-one-woman-s-search-racial-identity-n632741|title='Black Lotus': One woman's search for racial identity after passing|publisher=NBC News|access-date=January 4, 2018}} 12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2016/#/_|title=NPR's Book Concierge|publisher=NPR|access-date=January 4, 2018}} 7 : People from Maui|1970 births|American Bahá'ís|Anti-domestic violence activists|Domestic violence awareness|Living people|Victims of domestic abuse |
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