❌ MYTH: Crime victims support long prison sentences.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
October 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
❌ MYTH: Crime victims support long prison sentences.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
❌ MYTH: Crime victims support long prison sentences.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
September 19, 2026 at 7:15 PM
❌ MYTH: Crime victims support long prison sentences.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
New report by @4refugeewomen.bsky.social uncovers shocking findings on immigration detention, including:
❌ Male detention centre staff still watch women in intimate situations, incl. whilst showering despite a Home Office ban on this practice in 2016.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌ Male detention centre staff still watch women in intimate situations, incl. whilst showering despite a Home Office ban on this practice in 2016.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
Women for Refugee Women : A Decade of Harm: Survivors of gender-based violence locked up in immigration detention
New research uncovers the extremely concerning gap between Home Office policy and practice in immigration detention centres.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New report by @4refugeewomen.bsky.social uncovers shocking findings on immigration detention, including:
❌ Male detention centre staff still watch women in intimate situations, incl. whilst showering despite a Home Office ban on this practice in 2016.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌ Male detention centre staff still watch women in intimate situations, incl. whilst showering despite a Home Office ban on this practice in 2016.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
💖 Idiots in love who damn well know they're both making their lives more difficult but can't help it and make the choice to be with their partner anyway.
❌️ Enemies to lovers because 99.99% of the time it glosses over very real (in-story) abuse/harm/violence and paints it as "OMG they're so edgy."
❌️ Enemies to lovers because 99.99% of the time it glosses over very real (in-story) abuse/harm/violence and paints it as "OMG they're so edgy."
February 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
💖 Idiots in love who damn well know they're both making their lives more difficult but can't help it and make the choice to be with their partner anyway.
❌️ Enemies to lovers because 99.99% of the time it glosses over very real (in-story) abuse/harm/violence and paints it as "OMG they're so edgy."
❌️ Enemies to lovers because 99.99% of the time it glosses over very real (in-story) abuse/harm/violence and paints it as "OMG they're so edgy."
❌ MYTH: Crime victims support long prison sentences.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
July 15, 2026 at 8:52 PM
❌ MYTH: Crime victims support long prison sentences.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
✅ REALITY: Most victims of violence want violence prevention. Harm is real, but mass support for mass incarceration is not.
New report by @4refugeewomen.bsky.social uncovers the harms of immigration detention on women seeking safety:
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must END.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must END.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
Women for Refugee Women : A Decade of Harm: Survivors of gender-based violence locked up in immigration detention
New research uncovers the extremely concerning gap between Home Office policy and practice in immigration detention centres.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
New report by @4refugeewomen.bsky.social uncovers the harms of immigration detention on women seeking safety:
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must END.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must END.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌ WOODEN SPOON
Our anti-award for 2025 is the weaponisation of violence against women to promote racist, anti-migrant agendas.
Thank you to @selmataha8.bsky.social @sbsisters.bsky.social for speaking about this issue tonight.
We urge journalists to expose and reject this whenever it arises.
Our anti-award for 2025 is the weaponisation of violence against women to promote racist, anti-migrant agendas.
Thank you to @selmataha8.bsky.social @sbsisters.bsky.social for speaking about this issue tonight.
We urge journalists to expose and reject this whenever it arises.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
❌ WOODEN SPOON
Our anti-award for 2025 is the weaponisation of violence against women to promote racist, anti-migrant agendas.
Thank you to @selmataha8.bsky.social @sbsisters.bsky.social for speaking about this issue tonight.
We urge journalists to expose and reject this whenever it arises.
Our anti-award for 2025 is the weaponisation of violence against women to promote racist, anti-migrant agendas.
Thank you to @selmataha8.bsky.social @sbsisters.bsky.social for speaking about this issue tonight.
We urge journalists to expose and reject this whenever it arises.
#ThisIShowWTPdoIT #TakeTurns&KeepTheMovementGoing
#GIVESreasonTO'VEaLIFEwhileTheUSAisSAVED
#STATEpowerISaHEAVENofAthingAIN'Tit
#❌Harm/Violence
#RoadchesScatterUnlessTheyWantToBeSquished
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#GIVESreasonTO'VEaLIFEwhileTheUSAisSAVED
#STATEpowerISaHEAVENofAthingAIN'Tit
#❌Harm/Violence
#RoadchesScatterUnlessTheyWantToBeSquished
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May 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
#ThisIShowWTPdoIT #TakeTurns&KeepTheMovementGoing
#GIVESreasonTO'VEaLIFEwhileTheUSAisSAVED
#STATEpowerISaHEAVENofAthingAIN'Tit
#❌Harm/Violence
#RoadchesScatterUnlessTheyWantToBeSquished
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#GIVESreasonTO'VEaLIFEwhileTheUSAisSAVED
#STATEpowerISaHEAVENofAthingAIN'Tit
#❌Harm/Violence
#RoadchesScatterUnlessTheyWantToBeSquished
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❌️ meaningful domestic violence legislation - the risk of harm from men towards women increases during pregnancy. NZ still does not have adequate protections for women and children - despite domestic violence and coercive control by men towards women being a known and documented issue.
April 9, 2026 at 9:32 AM
❌️ meaningful domestic violence legislation - the risk of harm from men towards women increases during pregnancy. NZ still does not have adequate protections for women and children - despite domestic violence and coercive control by men towards women being a known and documented issue.
Chanting slogans in a public march ✅ Yes Peaceful, nonthreatening
Displaying offensive signs or flags ✅ Yes Protected symbolic expression
Screaming slurs into someone’s face ❌ No “Fighting words” / intimidation
Threatening harm or violence ❌ No “True
Displaying offensive signs or flags ✅ Yes Protected symbolic expression
Screaming slurs into someone’s face ❌ No “Fighting words” / intimidation
Threatening harm or violence ❌ No “True
January 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Chanting slogans in a public march ✅ Yes Peaceful, nonthreatening
Displaying offensive signs or flags ✅ Yes Protected symbolic expression
Screaming slurs into someone’s face ❌ No “Fighting words” / intimidation
Threatening harm or violence ❌ No “True
Displaying offensive signs or flags ✅ Yes Protected symbolic expression
Screaming slurs into someone’s face ❌ No “Fighting words” / intimidation
Threatening harm or violence ❌ No “True
Today is the first day of our annual Respect Week - highlighting the appalling abuse and violence faced by retail workers and the need to protect workers from harm ✋
Everyone deserves to feel safe at work - abuse should never be part of the job ❌
Share to show your support this #RespectWeek 🤝
Everyone deserves to feel safe at work - abuse should never be part of the job ❌
Share to show your support this #RespectWeek 🤝
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today is the first day of our annual Respect Week - highlighting the appalling abuse and violence faced by retail workers and the need to protect workers from harm ✋
Everyone deserves to feel safe at work - abuse should never be part of the job ❌
Share to show your support this #RespectWeek 🤝
Everyone deserves to feel safe at work - abuse should never be part of the job ❌
Share to show your support this #RespectWeek 🤝
We’ve signed an open letter to the Home Secretary with a clear message:
Cutting protection for refugees will cause real harm. ❌
For people who have fled unimaginable violence and torture, this constant uncertainty is “terrifying, retraumatising, and can undermine progress towards recovery.”
Cutting protection for refugees will cause real harm. ❌
For people who have fled unimaginable violence and torture, this constant uncertainty is “terrifying, retraumatising, and can undermine progress towards recovery.”
April 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
We’ve signed an open letter to the Home Secretary with a clear message:
Cutting protection for refugees will cause real harm. ❌
For people who have fled unimaginable violence and torture, this constant uncertainty is “terrifying, retraumatising, and can undermine progress towards recovery.”
Cutting protection for refugees will cause real harm. ❌
For people who have fled unimaginable violence and torture, this constant uncertainty is “terrifying, retraumatising, and can undermine progress towards recovery.”
Digital violence silences women, trans, and nonbinary people's voices, limits their participation in society, and perpetuates real-world harm. There's #NoExcuse for digital abuse. ❌
We can face risks like digital violence with collective power and care: feministactivismwithoutfear.org #16Days
We can face risks like digital violence with collective power and care: feministactivismwithoutfear.org #16Days
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Digital violence silences women, trans, and nonbinary people's voices, limits their participation in society, and perpetuates real-world harm. There's #NoExcuse for digital abuse. ❌
We can face risks like digital violence with collective power and care: feministactivismwithoutfear.org #16Days
We can face risks like digital violence with collective power and care: feministactivismwithoutfear.org #16Days
Now I'm thinking about it what sites are indexed and query-able, such as MSD with domestic violence survivors, disabled etc (basically everyone vulnerable you can think of), this should not have been launched in the state it is.
Asking for help after being assaulted by your partner?
Blocked ❌
Asking for help after being assaulted by your partner?
Blocked ❌
October 28, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Now I'm thinking about it what sites are indexed and query-able, such as MSD with domestic violence survivors, disabled etc (basically everyone vulnerable you can think of), this should not have been launched in the state it is.
Asking for help after being assaulted by your partner?
Blocked ❌
Asking for help after being assaulted by your partner?
Blocked ❌
New report by @4refugeewomen.bsky.social uncovers the harms of immigration detention on women seeking safety:
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must end.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must end.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
March 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
New report by @4refugeewomen.bsky.social uncovers the harms of immigration detention on women seeking safety:
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must end.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
❌85% felt anxious or depressed
❌75% felt hopeless
❌65% felt suicidal
Detention causes huge harm and must end.
Read more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha...
The IMB rightly stated, “detention, by its very nature, is detrimental to a person’s physical and mental health… typically causes a deterioration in health.”
Our research of over a decade proves this:
❌ 85% felt anxious or depressed
❌ 65% felt suicidal
7/🧵
Our research of over a decade proves this:
❌ 85% felt anxious or depressed
❌ 65% felt suicidal
7/🧵
Women for Refugee Women - A Decade of Harm: Survivors of gender-based violence locked up in immigration detention
New research uncovers the extremely concerning gap between Home Office policy and practice in immigration detention centres.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
June 15, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The IMB rightly stated, “detention, by its very nature, is detrimental to a person’s physical and mental health… typically causes a deterioration in health.”
Our research of over a decade proves this:
❌ 85% felt anxious or depressed
❌ 65% felt suicidal
7/🧵
Our research of over a decade proves this:
❌ 85% felt anxious or depressed
❌ 65% felt suicidal
7/🧵
For women made forcibly destitute, the risk of further harm is extreme.
Our research found that:
❌ 25% of women were raped or experienced sexual violence;
❌ 22% experienced physical violence;
❌ 35% were forced to stay in an unwanted or abusive relationship.
5/🧵
Our research found that:
❌ 25% of women were raped or experienced sexual violence;
❌ 22% experienced physical violence;
❌ 35% were forced to stay in an unwanted or abusive relationship.
5/🧵
June 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
For women made forcibly destitute, the risk of further harm is extreme.
Our research found that:
❌ 25% of women were raped or experienced sexual violence;
❌ 22% experienced physical violence;
❌ 35% were forced to stay in an unwanted or abusive relationship.
5/🧵
Our research found that:
❌ 25% of women were raped or experienced sexual violence;
❌ 22% experienced physical violence;
❌ 35% were forced to stay in an unwanted or abusive relationship.
5/🧵
❌ Vulnerabilities ignored
Survivors of gender-based violence, women with serious mental health concerns, and pregnant women were detained - despite the documented harms.
Risk assessments failed to adequately reflect risk levels, placing women at risk of further harm.
11/ 🧵
Survivors of gender-based violence, women with serious mental health concerns, and pregnant women were detained - despite the documented harms.
Risk assessments failed to adequately reflect risk levels, placing women at risk of further harm.
11/ 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
❌ Vulnerabilities ignored
Survivors of gender-based violence, women with serious mental health concerns, and pregnant women were detained - despite the documented harms.
Risk assessments failed to adequately reflect risk levels, placing women at risk of further harm.
11/ 🧵
Survivors of gender-based violence, women with serious mental health concerns, and pregnant women were detained - despite the documented harms.
Risk assessments failed to adequately reflect risk levels, placing women at risk of further harm.
11/ 🧵
The report found that:
❌ Women still face long overnight journeys, including pregnant women and those at risk of self-harm
❌ Survivors of gender-based violence are detained and retraumatised
4/ 🧵
❌ Women still face long overnight journeys, including pregnant women and those at risk of self-harm
❌ Survivors of gender-based violence are detained and retraumatised
4/ 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The report found that:
❌ Women still face long overnight journeys, including pregnant women and those at risk of self-harm
❌ Survivors of gender-based violence are detained and retraumatised
4/ 🧵
❌ Women still face long overnight journeys, including pregnant women and those at risk of self-harm
❌ Survivors of gender-based violence are detained and retraumatised
4/ 🧵
Hotel accommodation subjects women to further harm, including:
❌ Sexual violence and exploitation;
❌ Coercive and controlling practices;
❌ Exacerbation of existing traumas.
Hotels are not a safe form of accommodation.
2/🧵
❌ Sexual violence and exploitation;
❌ Coercive and controlling practices;
❌ Exacerbation of existing traumas.
Hotels are not a safe form of accommodation.
2/🧵
June 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hotel accommodation subjects women to further harm, including:
❌ Sexual violence and exploitation;
❌ Coercive and controlling practices;
❌ Exacerbation of existing traumas.
Hotels are not a safe form of accommodation.
2/🧵
❌ Sexual violence and exploitation;
❌ Coercive and controlling practices;
❌ Exacerbation of existing traumas.
Hotels are not a safe form of accommodation.
2/🧵
Women seeking safety are exposed to further harm by the work ban, including:
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted and abusive relationships
❌Being forced into sex work
Read more in our report #SafetyAndSurvival: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s...
3/🧵
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted and abusive relationships
❌Being forced into sex work
Read more in our report #SafetyAndSurvival: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s...
3/🧵
Women for Refugee Women : Safety and Survival: How the Work Ban Fuels Violence Against Women Seeking Asylum
New research uncovers how the work ban harms women seeking safety in the UK, placing them at risk of abuse and exploitation.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Women seeking safety are exposed to further harm by the work ban, including:
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted and abusive relationships
❌Being forced into sex work
Read more in our report #SafetyAndSurvival: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s...
3/🧵
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted and abusive relationships
❌Being forced into sex work
Read more in our report #SafetyAndSurvival: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s...
3/🧵
Women seeking safety in the UK from war, persecution and gender-based violence, are instead exposed to further harm by the work ban, including:
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
May 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Women seeking safety in the UK from war, persecution and gender-based violence, are instead exposed to further harm by the work ban, including:
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
Women seeking safety in the UK from war, persecution and gender-based violence, are instead exposed to further harm by the work ban, including:
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
May 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Women seeking safety in the UK from war, persecution and gender-based violence, are instead exposed to further harm by the work ban, including:
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
❌Sexual assault and abuse
❌Being trapped or forced into unwanted or abusive situations
❌Being forced into sex work
2/🧵
🚨Launched today!
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
Women for Refugee Women : A Decade of Harm: Survivors of gender-based violence locked up in immigration detention
New research uncovers the extremely concerning gap between Home Office policy and practice in immigration detention centres.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚨Launched today!
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵
Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:
❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.
Find out more👇
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-ha... 1/🧵