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Oct 2, 2018 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD
Some of you may have noticed that I have been a lot more ruthless with trolls and abusive tweets this week. I have absolutely reached my limit of the level of abuse I get every single day for sharing articles, talking about research, talking about women or my work.
I am absolutely sick of being told to take the high road, to be nicer to trolls, to not sink to their level, to not engage with bullies, to walk away and do nothing. I am sick of being told to be more polite or to deal with this better or in a more diplomatic way
Jul 28, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
EXACTLY why I’ve been taking my bikini body pics this week and posting them online. Sick of this shit
Bikini body pic for today.
As a Mum of two and dairy milk addict, summer scares me just as much as most women. But we gotta change the narrative. We gotta change the imagery we show each other.
Jul 16, 2018 • 13 tweets • 1 min read
Excuses used by MPs, professionals, councillors and supporters of MP Andrew Griffiths violent and misogynistic messages and behaviours so far:
A thread
1. He’s a really good guy and a nice man (Heather Wheeler MP)
Jul 4, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I would like the field of CSE to demand an explanation as to why MESMAC were forced to close down CSE org BLAST after being investigated by Charities Commission and why their Manager was not re-employed - and why he is now banned from delivering training in Yorkshire & Humber
This has gone on in silence. The charities commission investigated an organisation working in our field and closed them down - their manager suddenly announced he became self employed which means he didn’t get offered another job. Why? Why did these things happen?
Jul 4, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’m interested in why people perceive whistleblowers as the problem, and not the people committing the actual crime that the person felt compelled to report.
Are we a community of professionals that still operate ‘tattle-tale’ rules of the playground?
That ‘telling’ is bad?
For example, if I was to say ‘this professional of this institution was found to have done X’
More people would probably respond with ‘omg why is she putting that out into the public arena and airing dirty laundry?’ than ‘omg that professional has done something terrible’.
Jul 1, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Roughly translates to:
“We made a film about Kayleigh being murdered and we got so many views on the internet that now we’ve made one where Breck has this throat slit and we are going to show it to children again despite mounting evidence against it.”
prweek.com/article/148474…
The people who have made this and funded this have read the #nomoreCSEfilms report and know that national organisations are now opposing the use of traumatic films with children but are ignoring the warnings and the well-being of children
Jun 28, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
RT THIS Turn Good Evening Britain on RIGHT NOW ITV. #GEB and watch Piers Morgan sexually harass Pamela Anderson on live national TV. GROSS. Pamela is fuming - keeps saying 'I didnt agree to talk about this' and just slammed him by saying 'I am more than just sex you know'
@piersmorgan just straight up asked Amir Khan about training regimes and then asked Pamela if she ever had a threesome with Putin. Fucking prick.
Jun 27, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I have a few thoughts about this move by Starbucks.
1. Does anyone not think that this is a purely political move on behalf of a company that refuses to pay the correct corporation tax all over the world?
pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/26/sta…2. Isn’t this the same Starbucks who wasn’t even paying their staff the correct wages or sick pay when required?
1. I recently started #victimstigma after professionals I’ve never met in my field of psychology & CSE found out that I was raped 11yrs ago & used it to send hundreds of pages of disgusting emails claiming that I am mentally ill & unstable.
2. And they tried for MONTHS to protect their identities and silence me - hoping that I would never go public about what they had done because they have used mental health stigma to try to discredit years of my work. They work in mental health, yet did this to me.
Mar 16, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve kept my mouth shut about Telford because I have a responsibility not to add to the misunderstanding that child sexual abuse is area-specific but I need to say this so I’m gonna come out and say it and start this conversation now. (THREAD)
1. Statistically in a town the size of Telford or Rotherham - tens of thousands of residents have been sexually abused as children. The numbers of 1400 and 1000 are so woefully underestimated and yet it’s shocking us all? Why? This is basic maths. These numbers cannot be right.