8 Years of Emails with My Perpetrator

SEASON 8 EPISODE 24

2.5.2026

Guests: Thordis Elva

Type of Survivorship: Intimate Partner Violence, High School

Other Themes: Experts & Authors, Life-Changing Perspective

Thordis Elva is a writer, speaker, and activist from Iceland who specializes in violence prevention and has shaped national and international policy on digital rights and gender equality. In 2017, she gained worldwide recognition for her book South of Forgiveness, a memoir about her sexual assault and subsequent journey to healing in which Thordis collaborated with her perpetrator, making her the first rape survivor in the world to publicly do so. It has since been published across four continents, with the accompanying TED talk having been viewed over 10 million times.