Great news, Culture Reframed have launched a Youth Advisory Council! Applications are open until June 23rd for young people ages 15-24. 🔗 culturereframed.org/youth-advisory… We hope Gail Dines will share more on this when she speaks at #FiLiA2025 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

If you want to "leave" the ECHR, which of these rights do you want to give up for yourself and your family?

❗ Survivors of rape and serious sexual assault given the right to have cases reviewed. Under new plans, victim-survivors can request a second opinion from a different prosecutor before any final decision is made to close their case. Read more: ow.ly/SJyt50W6nnZ

Many of us have noticed that there is a huge disconnect between Covid public health messaging and what the science is actually telling us. A growing number of research papers show the harmful effects of the virus, yet this is not part of the public discourse. 1/10

The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water. But this figure is based on a report paid for by… the water companies. The true cost is closer to zero. Ewan McG ➡️ @ewanmg.bsky.social explains why on LBC with Andrew Marr 👇

Do you really need special, expert training to know that closing down a rape case without even talking to the accused is bad police work? Surely this is both common sense and basic police training. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

This is utterly beautiful. The exhumation begins on Monday and 796 Tuam babies will be lifted into the light. TUAMBABIESFAMLYGROUP Alison O’Reilly ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Facts My teams & I successfully prosecuted 1000s of child sexual abusers For 5 yrs I was managed by Keir Starmer We listened We helped change the way every agency responded to the threat Ethnicity was an issue, Class was an issue & the Tory Govt took away much of the funding

Glad Louise Casey has picked this up CWASU and CSA Centre have been noting this for 15 years. Few social work degrees have anything more than minimal input on the sexual violence children and young people experience - this needs to change

While he is smeared in the UK by the Right, In The Cannes Film Festival 2025 Ken Loach got a 15 minute standing ovation from the entire audience of over 2000 people who came from all over the world.

A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system. The conclusion is stark: Long COVID is a chronic neuroimmune disorder affecting brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.🧵

Our paper on shame sensitive practice for women seeking care for complex trauma now out in the British Journal of Social Work - free to read! No paywall academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance-a…

1385 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 925 days since they barred women from university. This will go down as one of the great betrayals of the 21st century. A generation of girls, locked out, while the world looked away.

On Tuesday July 8th, the bill that repeals the Parental Alienation Law and bans the use of the term (PL 2812/22) will be voted on in the Justice and Constitution Committee (CJC) of the Federal Chamber of Deputies in Brazil. Research shows this law has caused harm to victims of

Just joining the many nature-, travel- and outdoor- writers on here to say that, if you fancy reading about journeys of recovery that ACTUALLY HAPPENED, I have the GPX files to prove that I did indeed run/walk/crawl the routes I describe in In Her Nature uk.bookshop.org/p/books/in-her…

An informative 🧵of threads on attempts to coopt anger about sexual violence to ethnonationalist & racist ends. "Everyone should be suspicious of the 'Women's Safety Initiative', of its network of 'chapters', & of its misleading, divisive & inflammatory anti-migrant claims." 1/3

Clydebank Women’s Aid have had to close their doors after 40 yrs due to the latest cuts in their funding from West Dunbartonshire Council. Women’s services have been woefully underfunded for decades. Please sign & share.

We've done an episode before called "if he chokes you, he hates you" and we need to reiterate that there is no safe way to choke someone. That man doesn't love you and is aroused by your suffering. PERIOD.

An illustration from 'Moominsummer Madness', 4th in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in 1954 #Womensart #FridayFeeling

This is what I love about Rachel's writing - her refusal to make grief or feminism tidy. Neither are,nor should they be