challenging institutional disbelief around domestic & sexual violence and abuse
I was sexually assaulted by an ex boyfriend. It happened 2 times. I had never experienced something like that before so I didn t even know it was possible. After all we were planning to get married, and when i was starting to back out he started getting all sweet at first, then manipulative and more »
These are just a few of the ways that you can support women’s services during the 16 Days of Activism to Eliminate Male Violence against Women and Girls. Donate £1 to a specialist women’s service like the national organisations Rape Crisis, Women’s Aid, or Refuge. Donate £1 to your local service providers supporting women who are more »
25 November is designated as the UN day for the eradication of violence against women. But what is the significance of this date and why is it often marked with butterfly logos? On 25 November, 1960; three young women and political activists from the Dominican Republic, known as the Mirabal Sisters, were killed, it is more »
Hi, I’m a sexual assault survivor. I won’t go into details. But you’ll all be glad to know that I’m on the mend and have made use of the local rape crisis centre. They were all so lovely and understanding. Finally what brings me here is that a ‘close friend’ victim blamed me by asking more »
This is just a sample of some of the appalling misrepresentations of male violence sent to us this week. Here we have Court News UK reinforcing the belief that violence against women only matters if the woman is a possession of an important or wealthy male: Note that Court News implies that Fiona Brenninkmeyer more »
I haven’t been able to get it all on paper but I’m hoping I can do it here because I need to. Two years ago I just wanted to go out with my friends and have a good time. We drank quite a bit and had a lot of fun before we left the bar. more »
I am a writer. I like to have the TV or radio on in the background as I write. This morning (12/11/15), I turned on my TV and was poised to start writing when I realised that The Jeremy Kyle show on. I was about to turn the channel over when I heard something in more »
This is the response from the BBC to our complaint about the program Is this rape? Sex on Trial. The limit on characters means we cannot put in a proper evidenced complaint. We will be raising this issue further, but we encourage everyone to send in formal complaints so that the BBC understands the breadth more »
I went to a new school, at a new town, when I was a 10-year-old boy. From 10 to my teen years, my classmates made my life a living hell. I’m not going to say that this experience was sexual abuse, but some people may argue that some of my abuse was sexual abuse. I more »
The programme “Is This Rape? Sex on Trial” could have been brilliant, albeit with a different title. Here was an opportunity to educate around the law on rape. Yet the legal definition was given briefly at the end. It’s taken that everyone knows what rape means, yet this programme, for one thing, demonstrates that it more »