The house the Independent built: First safe haven for women fleeing domestic abuse is finished | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brick-by-brick-refuge-house-completed-domestic-abuse-b2730753.html

#House
#DomesticViolence
#DomesticAbuse

I've just had a work meeting where I chose to have one of the hardest conversations of my life. I disclosed being a #DomesticAbuse survivor. Survivor's guilt. The impossible-to-displace belief that it was my fault, that I enabled it. Irrational, illogical, clearly untrue, but this is what a controlling & coercive abuser does. They gaslight and erode you until they've destroyed you. He's long dead but is still controlling me now. I'll never heal from this. I'm mentally damaged for life.

I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

Content warning: Childhood trauma

https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111490472007434009

https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111187258270534141

I want to protect children.
I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

On the day Noella took action against her abusive partner, she knew where to go: the bank.

She walked into an HSBC U.K.

branch, asked for a Safe Space, and found support there while making plans for her and her children’s safety.

#DomesticAbuse traps victims in cycles of fear—often because leaving means financial ruin.

#UniversalBasicIncome (#UBI) changes that, giving victims agency without bureaucratic hurdles.

No approvals, no means-testing—just freedom to leave NOW.
No more choosing between abuse and homelessness. UBI covers a bus ticket, a security deposit, food while rebuilding.

It won’t solve everything, but it’s a lifeline when every second counts.

More claims against the coward #AndrewTate. This abuser should be behind bars for life.

"If you ever betray me you will regret it."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z2e5166eo

#domesticabuse #consent #publichealth @publichealth #misogyny

5 - Police Interceptors - Season 3 - Episode 5 / Episode 5

The Police in this episode say Domestic Violence by a woman on her husband/male partner is an increasing trend .

https://www.channel5.com/show/police-interceptors/season-3/episode-5

#DomesticViolence
#DomesticAbuse

A Thousand Cuts by Sujata Setia explores domestic abuse in South Asian culture, through portraiture and the traditional art of paper cutting called #Sanjhi art

Photograph: Sujata Setia

@photography
#art
#women
#DomesticAbuse

How can such an organization call themselves a charity? How can anyone trust them to help any human subjected to domestic abuse? They clearly showed they don't give a crap.

I wish I had a heart of stone too, it seems the life would have been easier and less painful.

#trans #transgender #transrights #women #womenrights #humanrights #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #Scotland #uk #abuse #domesticabuse

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/03/edinburgh-womens-aid-trans/

The Superbowl Tradition Continues! I hope you'll join me.

A reminder that #DomesticAbuse often increases after big games like the #SuperBowl.

A few years back I joined a tradition of donating to an organization dedicated to protecting partners from abuse in the losing city.

This year I'm again donating $10 per point of the winning team to an organization in the losing team's city.

I'd love for you to join me with any amount. Who's in? Post below and we'll post receipts after.

Nigerian guitarist, Fiokee loses sister to domestic abuse: Condolences have been shared for Nigerian guitarist, Fiokee, after the heartbreaking news of his sister’s death due to domestic abuse. Fiokee took to Instagram to share his devastation over his sister’s tragic passing, of which he had no prior knowledge. He shared that his sister had endured her suffering in silence and urged others in […] https://creebhills.com/2025/02/fiokee-loses-sister-to-domestic-abuse?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Fiokee #DomesticAbuse #Condolences #MentalHealth #NigerianMusic

Whilst I'm glad #coercivecontrol is being recognised for the #seriousharm it causes, this article is somewhat misleading (or the media have been briefed incorrectly). Any serious harm risks (including coercive control) are already shared with other agencies by the #Probationservice, this is not something new. It is disingenuous to infer otherwise.

Coercive control to be put on par with other types of #domesticabuse in England and Wales | Domestic violence | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/03/coercive-control-domestic-abuse-england-wales

#Eldest #Children Suffer Under #CoerciveControl #DomesticViolence

#Domesticabuse harms the #eldestchild the most. Here's how to help.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/invisible-chains/202501/eldest-children-suffer-under-coercive-control-domestic-violence

My guess is all the people complaining about 'Grooming Gangs' couldn't give a shit about this....

https://news.sky.com/story/domestic-abuse-victims-failed-by-criminal-justice-system-damning-commissioners-report-says-13293740