#Survivors

Deeply sad and angry at what is happening to @NExclusions. As someone who spends all day every day researching sexual violence and what justice is/can be I can say with
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Many people don't seem to know that the oft used by the right (& sometimes the left, too) insult, 'triggered' actually hurts survivors of abuse and war. The original &
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First off, if you're actually serious here, maybe don't treat this like it's tea time, cause it's not. You are talking about real people who were affected by your careless
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Mason 4 Survivors would like to echo the sentiments expressed in the thread released by @knowyourIX, we must acknowledge how survivor narratives have been used to justify the existence of
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Words that have lost all meaning or that we can no longer use w/o being misunderstood, cringing, or being minimized:-problematic-bullying-narcissistic-gaslightingI really want to talk about that last one bc abuse
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Starting to notice a trend I wish I could research (but I didn't go into that line of work).We're already aware that many people supporting Johnny Depp are themselves survivors,
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A lot of people learned about the Residential School System after the storyline aired in s3, and Anne taught us to take action to help others. Thus, tonight we are
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On 5 February 1996, Mumbai Police conducted a raid at Kamathipura, Mumbai and rescued 456 survivors of sex trafficking between the ages of 14 and 30. Out of these 456,
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In light of furthering the #MeToo movement and creating safer spaces for survivors and women in our networks and social circles, my friend Maria and I have decided to
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Morning thoughts:1. Prosecutors are not experts in criminal justice policy, they are experts in prosecuting and incarcerating peopleThey have also actively helped build the superstructure of mass incarceration (great article
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LRT: This is what I fucking mean when I say that Twitter crowds are allergic to nuance. And frankly encourage abusive discourse. A favorite example for me was how Natalie
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"Believe Women" should NEVER become a Prison for Survivors or a weapon used against us.Survivors of Sexual Assault know better than anyone when someone does NOT belong in their group.
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If I could offer some general commentary on the discourse surrounding the Reade allegations that actually is not a judgment on the allegations themselves, but an observation from someone who
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#DVAM2020: a thread. This #DomesticViolence Awareness Month, I wanted to share some of the anti-violence work that I'm most excited about. @freefromorg is putting money directly into the hands of
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As survivors we must recognize how our movement has been used to promote the expansion of police/state power, and the ways in which survivor orgs continue to root policing in
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rando: rape fantasies and noncon fic is bad, its normalizing rape, youre retraumatizing yourself, if you like this you're deranged and sickexperts: https://youtu.be/79fvyfrotug  Small notes: victims/survivors with fantasies is a
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