I’m being bullied off a range of projects I initiated & have worked incredibly hard on because of my criminal record. A record I have never kept secret, I couldn’t. When the news covered the trial, my life became a magazine any of you could thumb through. So let me give you...

some cold hard truths right now:

When I went to jail I lost everything. I lost my family, my career, my house, my reputation, my friends, EVERYTHING. And I’m not saying some of that wasn’t deserved, but I do not deserve a life sentence of collateral consequences.

When you read about criminalised mob in the paper, interrogate those supposed “truths”. If you are going to go to the trouble of judging me by what the Murdoch press wrote about me, do the due diligence & juxtapose that to the court transcripts, or ask me...seek the truth, please

If you are going to actively intervene and stop me from accessing paid opportunities for work, don’t slag off “people like me” who end up languishing on Centrelink benefits. You are giving us NO OTHER option

Stop saying criminalised mob need to win back your respect or work hard to be accepted back into society when you thwart us at every single turn

Stop saying you support our mob in jail when you will not give us a fair go when we return to our communities - it’s disingenuous and your allyship is entirely performative (and I mean this, stop being so fucking gammon)

You call us thugs, yet all of the bullying, the harassment, the sly interventions, the verbal and online and inbox attacks to me right now are all anonymous. That is thuggery. You are a CRIMINAL! You are the criminal you despise

Do you understand how much it hurts? Do you care that I’ve spent all morning crying knowing I have to resign from an (unpaid) position where I have worked tirelessly, bcoz I know that me being in it will discredit the work & I care more for my community than I do for the personal

accolade? Do you care that my kids have to watch the public take down of their mother, again? Do you care that I can’t hold down paid employment because you keep getting me “moved on” bcoz you don’t want my sentence to end? Do you care that I am tired, I am ruined, I am in pain?

What do you want from me? Every barb you throw at me hurts me and it hurts my family. It does not matter how much good I try to do I am the deviant you imagine. It doesn’t matter how much I study, I will never be more than what has been said about me.

I used to tell myself that I am not the sum of my conviction, but you tell me that’s all I am and all I will ever be. What’s the point? I mean really, all of you reading these tweets, some of you are the ones messaging me with your vile hatred.

Some of you are contacting people who have employed me to tell them I’m not worthy. Please tell me what you want from me? What I can do to stop your harassment?

Because I have three kids. I need to build a future for them. I need to feed them, clothe them, mother them. I can’t do that hiding in a cave because society does not want me anymore. People tell me I am not a disposable human. But that’s exactly what society has made me

Right now, you have successfully annihilated a woman who was trying extremely hard, who has struggled every second of every day to be better & I hope you feel better. I hope this feels like justice to you.

Because if this is what justice looks like, I wonder what criminality looks like, because they look an awful lot the same to me