TED Talk: How We Turned the Tide on Domestic Violence by Esta Soler

A TED talk covering thirty years of tactics and technologies used to combat intimate partner violence, “from the Polaroid camera to social media.”

“When Esta Soler lobbied for a bill outlawing domestic violence in 1984, one politician called it the ‘Take the Fun Out of Marriage Act.’ ‘If only I had Twitter then,’ she mused. In this sweeping, optimistic talk, Soler charts 30 years of tactics and technologies — from the Polaroid camera to social media — that led to a 64% drop in domestic violence in the U.S.”