Guest blog from a former Eaves worker. On 30 October 2015 Eaves, a feminist, secular and human rights based charity working on all forms of violence against women and girls with specific expertise on sexual violence, closed its doors. As well as frontline work, Eaves undertook research, policy, campaigning and advocacy and was well known […]
Guest blog by Sisters of Frida Disabled women are 2-3 times more likely to experience domestic violence, but have greater barriers to accessing services. Often they are not believed, or their experiences as disabled women are not understood. Perpetrators exploit disabled women by financially abusing them, isolating them from friends and family, withholding vital care […]
Let’s get one thing straight. Domestic violence has absolutely nothing to do with tampons. It was a nice party trick by George Osborne to take two issues that make women angry and smush them together into something that sort of resembled a fiscal policy, but that’s all it was – a trick. We musn’t be […]
Domestic violence is first and foremost about power and control. In a sexist society that teaches us heterosexual relationships are the norm and that men are only properly masculine if they exercise control and dominance, it is no surprise that in the overwhelming number of cases of domestic violence the survivor is a woman and […]
‘What about the men?’. It’s the refrain any feminist campaigning against domestic violence will be confronted with, because it’s two women a week who are killed at the hands of their current or former partners, not two men, so it’s on trying to prevent those deaths that we focus our energies. And that should be a […]
This week, Sisters Uncut made headlines storming the red carpet of the ‘Suffragette’ premiere in Leicester Square to highlight the government’s devastating cuts to domestic violence services. Here, a Sister explains her experience of growing up with domestic violence, and why she’s fighting with us against the cuts. When I was young my mum taught […]