challenging institutional disbelief around domestic & sexual violence and abuse
I don’t know what to do because I feel so guilty like maybe I did something awful and I just need another perspective. I was sexually abused as a child multiple times and my boyfriend knew this. I suffered from ptsd and an eating disorder for some time. The other night I went out with more »
Journalists, radio, professionals edit content about Domestic abuse/violence. I can tell you the hard facts. No sweeping anything under the carpet. Most abusers are Male. It’s a fact. Research and stories. The public. Men are looked at, as being ‘incharge’, ‘manage the money’s, the main ‘bread winner’s, ‘stronger than women’s, are ‘holding a meeting’, ‘as more »
We had been drinking and I was staying at a trusted friends house. So was an old ‘friend’ who used to have a somewhat obsessive crush on me, but I thought enough years had passed for this phase to be over. We came back from a party and I head to the guest room where more »
A poem about my experience of child abuse The night that turns today the cobwebs glide away the darkness of the night the lightness of the day yesterday year has gone away the child that has gone and hidden away the night and the day the sadness flees and comes and goes away the child more »
In 30 years I’ve never complained about abuse. I’m speaking out now because I fear the politics of personal destruction is silencing minorities MPs Bernie Grant and Diane Abbott at the 1988 Labour party conference in Blackpool. Photograph: PA/PA Archive/PA Images The Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison once said, “If there is a book you want to more »
They will say, it was a realationship. They will say, maybe he didn´t hear you. They will say, it was no real rape. They will say, he´s just a man. They will say, it isn´t as bad as you think. They will say, that´s just how men are. They will say, it was kind of more »
I have been sexually assaulted 13 times, 6 at school and 6 at a mental health institution. 1 in public. I believe at the institution they knew about the previous sexual assaults and wanted to skew that. Two of the sexual assaults were by another student in my year in High School. My ‘friends’ were more »
I went to a co-worker’s house yesterday to have some beers and hang out. We ended up hanging out for the majority of the afternoon until the evening. In that time I had four beers and 2 shots of vodka, I developed the spins and decided to lay in his bed with his permission. (All more »
Hi I’m new to this forum and would love any advice anyone can give me. Here is my story in a nut shell. I met my ex boyfriend in college. We dated for two years and he suffered from depression the entire time. The very beginning of the relationship was good, there were some signs more »
I was lying in bed cuddling and kissing a male friend with benefits. He started touching me and trying to unbutton my pants and I told him I was in my period when I wasn’t because I didn’t want to have sex. He said he didn’t care and kept going. I said I wasn’t in more »