Swimming has always been a part of my life - good and bad. In May I will attempt the infamous Alcatraz Swim- for Velindre
Cancer https://t.co/7kHrNfpyCG memory of my dad who died of prostate cancer and to support my amazing mum battling the illness now!
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The Femicide Census, published this week, shows the scale of menโs violence against women in Britain:
๐บ 122 women killed in 2022
๐บ Most by partners/ex-partners
๐บ 70% killed at home
๐บ More by sons than strangers
Follow and support the @FemicideCensus.
Femicide is terrorism.
'I have grandchildren. I know what they mean to their families.'
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour breaks down in tears as he addresses the UN Security Council on the situation in Gaza.
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"It's time that the macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape changes,"
"It's time we changed the way we look at rape."
- Gisรจle Pelicot
These words Gisรจle ends her time on the stand with carry the voices of countless women who have endured lifetimes of a rape culture in a society that routinely subjugates women and erodes their strength. Yet, women in this fight cannot be the only ones to dismantle these abusive patriarchal structures that men built. Men must join too.
Whether you help build or perpetuate it, we are all collectively responsible to help tackle these structures. They exist in our homes, our social lives, working lives, the institutions charged with protecting us and delivering justice... there are opportunities everywhere to support women and tackle abusive men.
Ordinary men in society commit acts of violence against women, and ordinary men watch on. Ordinary men make sexist miosgynistic comments, and ordinary men think that's as far it goes.
It is not. If anything, this case should teach you that.
Behind closed doors, behind the frontages of many ordinary looking men in society there are abusers, perpetrators of violent emotional, coercive, financial and physical acts against women. It's time to stop pretending the prevalence of male violence is small and stop saying good men are not part of the problem. If you're not part of solution, you're watching on. And what good is there in that?
I challenge every man to think about Gisรจle's words from this case, and that of many other women's stories, and recognise there is a need to act and to do something in your lives. Don't make the mistake in thinking you don't have power, you do, you just don't realise it.
We all know the dangers of the road, but domestic abuse is the emergency weโre ignoring.
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TW: Distressing Scenes
๐จ BREAKING: More women and children have been killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year.
๐จ Public infrastructure is hit every 3 hours on average.
๐จ The UK Gov must #StopArmingIsrael
Demand action: โก๏ธ https://t.co/LCQeXasmwa
[1/5] The horrific murder of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt has left an entire nation in a state of disbelief and shock as an utterly devastating act of male violence.
Carol Hunt
Hannah Hunt
Louise Hunt
RIP
Say their names
I can not imagine John Hunts pain. I send every condolence for his senseless loss.
I know the killers name.
I had to scroll quite a while to see the names of the women murdered rather than their relationship to men.
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Itโs National Final Day for our 14โs!๐คฉ
๐ @Wrexham_AFC U14s
๐๏ธ Cardiff International Sports Stadium
๐ CF11 8AZ
โฐ 12:45pm Kick Off
#OneClub#WeAreUnited
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All roads lead to Leckwith ๐๏ธ
๐ @Wrexham_AFC U14s
๐๏ธ Cardiff International Sports Stadium
๐ CF11 8AZ
โฐ12:45pm Kick Off
#OneClub#WeAreUnited
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Those phone recordings will haunt me forever. I donโt even have the words for how absolutely heart shattering they were. Her terrified little voice. It should haunt us all forever for allowing this to happen.