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Month: July 2019

Evolve
Confluence

Sovereignty over my home and my life MUST come first.

Reading Time: 3 minutes What looks like clutter to one person may feel like an exuberant homage to maximalism to you.

What looks like haphazard housekeeping from the outside might just mean that you’re finding your rhythm on the inside.

And if you have zero idea what “sparks joy” or doesn’t, letting usefulness be your metric is not a cop-out. (I can feel my blood boiling as I remember a client telling me this! *grrrrr)

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Informed
Confluence

5 ways we are encouraged to blame women and girls for being raped and abused

Reading Time: 11 minutes Having spent 10 years working with women and girls subjected to sexual and domestic violence of all kinds, I have never had a case or a caseload in which the woman or girl was not being blamed for what someone else (usually a man) was doing to her. Sometimes she is blamed by her family, sometimes by her partner. Sometimes she is blamed by police or by social workers. Sometimes it’s the mental health team blaming her.

Victim blaming is the act of transferring the blame from the perpetrator (who is 100% to blame for sexual offences they commit) and moving that blame back to the victim of the sexual offences.

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Informed
Confluence

We will not be silenced

Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the Democratic lawmakers criticized by President Trump’s racist attacks in recent days called the President’s remarks a “disruptive distraction” and said that she would encourage the American people “to not take the bait.” https://cnn.it/2xQrsHW

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