challenging institutional disbelief around domestic & sexual violence and abuse
I try to speak out as much as I am able but it’s hard to feel safe doing this and thus frustrates me. I’m not just talking about the threats of violence I know many women experience when they raise their head above the parapet, although the reality of these should be recognised. I’m talking more »
During a meeting where were discussing the definition of self-harm (I work in Mental health) someone who works with young people said that ‘you could say that CSE is a form of self-harm’. This is my response to that. No CSE is not self-harm. Saying CSE is a form of self-harm is dangerous, it places more »
One of the most common refrains in the media when a man chooses to physically harm of kill is current or former partner is ‘it was an isolated incidents’. In the UK, we have 2 of these ‘isolated incidents’ a week – a statistic that does not include mothers, daughters, sisters, and grandmothers murdered by more »
At 17, I was sexually assaulted by a well known and respected doctor in our small southern city. Needless to say, I wasn’t beleived and the police did nothing. Friends and family turned on me, and my own mother said to me “Are you suuure you were raped?” When I got with my current long more »
Since I was a child, I learned that sexual harassment is part of everyday life, and as a teenager, that it is my responsability to not to be sexually assaulted. Thanks to feminist websites, I began to learn to challenge that toxic believes, and I learned that the responsability to not to assault people lies more »
The conference was organised by the Centre for Gender & Feminist Studies (University of Stirling),
Prof Karen Boyle’s opening remarks
THE PAST HAS GONE, THIS IS THE FUTURE, YOU VIOLATED ME SO CRUELLY, YOU DEGRADED ME SO BADLY, YOU PLAYED WITH MY HEART MIND AND SOUL, YOU LAUGHED AND CALLED ME PSYCHO AND LIED TO ALL THOSE THAT KNOW YOU. YOUR WORDS CAME LIKE A KNIFE TO TRY AND DESTROY ME, BUT I THROW THEM more »
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Neil Deller received a community order, will have to attend an “internet sex offender treatment programme”, and “five-year sexual harm prevention order under which his internet activity is controlled and monitored”. Deller pled guilty to seven offences “involving downloading and possession of child porn”. He was found in possession of “3,500 images and videos of child more »
Today is Father’s Day. Whilst the media, and all high street shops, celebrate men, we’d like to raise the issue of financial abuse of children. We want to talk about all the children in the UK currently living in poverty because their fathers, and it is overwhelmingly men, refuse to pay child maintenance. A report more »