Advent Glass House Monday
The UK announces new units in each Police Force to combat #VAWG #VAWC #CSA
A challenge for each unit
To understand how it feels to be controlled
To shatter the Looking Glass
To think how their #Policing makes us feel
youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us?...
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days
#16DaysOfActivism2025
#16Giorni #16JoursDactivisme
Goldfish- the rural realities
#Policing #Training #SocialWork #Safeguarding #VAWG #VAWC #CSA #CoerciveControl #DomesticViolence
Fresh Air is all we need
For our Souls to breathe
Buy me nothing but freedom
To love
To work
To Learn
To live
Free from Violence
#IWD #VentagliDiNonViolenza #16Days #Femicidio #Femicide
#VAWG #VAWC #CSA
L’Anima Vola
youtu.be/MqhxIQD16EA?...
One of my favourite quotes
As the ink blot explodes
Rather like a teardrop
#passion #VAWG
#VAWC #CSA
#DomesticViolence #EconomicAbuse
#Trauma #CoerciveControl
An important call for Mothers
I was hospitalised towards the end of my 3rd pregnancy as a result of #coercivecontrol & the hospital had words with my partner about vulnerability of my child & his duty to create a safe space for us
Pregnancy is a key time for abuse of Power
#DomsticAbuse #VAWC
I've been documenting walks since Lockdown 1
For 2 years Power walks for Survivors
Healing Walks for Reflection
Motivational walks for growth
Campaigning Walks with a flask of Lady Grey tea
Average 5 miles per day 5 days a week
#VAWC #CSA #Diary #Poetry
#Photography #walk1000miles #Healing
Putting an end to fiction masquerade of #DomesticAbusers #CSA #CoerciveControl #VAWC
‘Turning the Facts
You’ve gone too far’
youtu.be/-0pZXFFJT7o?...
European Court of Human Rights recognises #CoerciveControl in a case involving Italy
Reinforcing its role in #DomesticViolence #VAWC
#DVAM2025 #ECHR
🗝Lock IN
🗝Lock DOWN
🗝Lock OUT
This is not a story about Keys
This is about AGENCY
www.linkedin.com/posts/oneint...
“The horrors that domestic abuse can bring on children
are unspeakable”
Baroness Levitt KC
#DVAM #VAWC #CSA
#LanguageMatters until there are No Words to name it
‘Unspeakable’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
"Forces across the Country" ? or globe?
Comment by 🇮🇹 officer when I was sent to make a statement to police in 2005
"Signora, if we spent all day wasting time with wives who have split from husbands, we wouldn't get any work done"
I rest my case officer
#DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth #VAWC
#DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth #VAWC
Our “hard won freedoms “?
Or pretence of freedom at expense of others?
Selecting whose freedom you SEE ?
By standing
Ghosting
Gossiping
Performing
Are symptomatic of a set of cultural values
Where’s the Love?
youtu.be/WpYeekQkAdc?...
Botticelli
Red Golds of the Autumn table
Red Golds of shedding leaves
Red Gold of the Chameleon
Love as a mind game
A hot-cold obsession
From Gold dreams
to bonfire flames 🔥 🍁🍂🔥
Karma Chameleon
youtu.be/HPwZA4dBJJU?...
#CoerciveControl
#DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth #VAWC
Tabusso (1930-2012)
At the start of first day of #DVAM I celebrate global efforts of Mothers to keep their children safe from #VAWC
They move home
They move country
They move mountains
Pass on the Courage
@filiahaguemums.bsky.social
@sheraresearch.bsky.social
@unsrvaw.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...
Tales from the Woods
Important research on storytelling 'frames' of childhood abuse.
How do fictional tales promote compassion and understanding?
How far can they be misleading?
What are the challenges?
#LanguageMatters #WordsMakeWorlds #CSA #VAWC
Our definition of Survival from traumatic experiences can change over time
When HOME becomes war zone the only option is to flee
But look at Gaza’s women & children clinging on to Home
View from Birthing room
#Belonging #VAWC #Trauma #Displacement #Safety
www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...
Today at #UNGA80, leaders, civil society & activists mark 30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action - an urgent call to uphold women’s & girls’ rights worldwide. We’re launching a new Brief on working with g'ments to end #VAWC. Learn more: tinyurl.com/44xfkj5j
#Beijing30 #PreventionIsPossible
Turning Points
As children burn
Humanity’s Compass
All is set in motion
A new World waits
A Rebalancing
Picasso ‘Guernica’
#Gaza
#vawc #humanity
Take your time
Some will walk with you
Follow me up the Mountain
They are there to get lost in
Ease into the journey
Walking boots on
Can’t find your Compass?
You will
Compass
youtu.be/Q57lbYde1v4?...
#Healing #abuse #trauma #grief #betrayal #recovery #Love
#Courage #Survivors #VAWC #CSA
Terminology Counts #LanguageMatters
In cases of #CSA #VAWC word gymnastics create smoke & mirrors
From @UCL
that trained me in Language matters
Do not be fooled by Words
Do not fall for "gobbledegook"
Changing systems
Word by Word
My UCL Tutor Quirk's work
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_...
📌 🙏✍️ ✊danke fürs Teilen.
Die Berichterstattung ist, zumindest was das Schriftliche betrifft, überdurchschnittlich sachlich verfasst. 🙂 Wenn die kleinen Fortschritte bloß reichten, um auch das Leben von Frauen zu retten, das wäre es. #Femizid #ToxischeMännlichkeit #IK #HateCrime #VAWC
⚖️🗂️🗄️📰📻📺⌛️
More blossom bringing joy
Let trust in
Notice the blossom cycle
The loss & transformation
May you too find Liberation
From abuses of Power
From shame & degradation
From heartbreak of Wars
From behind closed doors
#Liberation #Liberazione #healing #Trauma #Spring #vawc #Trust
This is Global #LanguageMatters
A dictionary definition of Violence
Changing the Grammar of violence
Word by Word
Sentence by Sentence
Translation by Translation
Border by Border
Rule by Rule
#VAWG #VAWC #CSA #HumanRights #ChildRights #PostSeparationAbuse #Lawfare @profayebkarlsson.bsky.social
#EconomicAbuse can be one of the most damaging harms by a loved one
Locking children out of their own home is the ultimate abuse of Power
When it is planned & premeditated for years it is a #trauma like no other
Would you tolerate such Men in your community?
It’s not about Keys #VAWC #CSA
An excellent film using the Arts to raise awareness of the impacts of CSA & violence in families
Thoughts this weekend for all the Mothers & their children coping with this & the aftermath
For Mother survivors on Mother's Day
#csa #therapy
#Motherhood #VAWG
#VAWC #DomesticAbuse
#Trauma #Family
We must understand how perpetrators of #coercivecontrol use #lawfare to legally entrap victim-survivors. When #mothers end up #trapped in a country that is not their own their vulnerability is often greater and so are the #health and #wellbeing impacts from the #legalabuse.
#HagueMothers
#VAWC
This one on #WorldPoetryDay
For all protective Mothers who have been through court or are going through court
In memory of the Hare on my back lawn
You have got this Mothers
#motherslove #motherhood #FamilyCourt #VAWG #VAWC #CSA
@sheraresearch.bsky.social @drproudman.bsky.social
Critical research.
We really need relevant feeds or oft used hashtags here on BSky. #OIDV.
#VAWC #DFSV #mensviolence
Whispers of blame
Careless whispers
Whisper blame games
isolate survivors
Compound trauma
heap hurt on hurt
Add blame and shame
Wrap your community arms around them
Do not marginalise them
Connect with their pain
#CSA #VAWC #DomesticAbuse #Survivors #VAWG #Trauma
#Community #WellBeing #Writing
My Power walk today for all those in recovery from abuse #Survivors #CSA #VAWC #DA
Forced by a difficult childhood to wear a mask
Keep dancing & fight to support investment in Services & #Education of #FamilyCourts #Teachers #SocialWorkers
YouNotUs - Please Tell Rosie
youtu.be/TQLgLcU81e4?...
“The ‘#Alienation and (Residential) #Reunification’ #industry has become a #legal #disciplinary and #punishing system to ‘deal with’, ‘#coerce’ or ‘#break’ so-called ‘alienated’ #children to re-engage with even #court determined #violent fathers.”
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
#familycourtreform #VAWC
