"Please don't send me to prison"
Plea from single mother with spiralling mental health problems, PTSD, using foodbanks, heavily in debt
Prosecuted over unpaid TV Licence
She needed help
She got a conviction & a £106 bill
#SingleJusticeProcedure
Constituent of @MattBishopMP
@nadski65@nataliepage Many survivors also have children who have experienced trauma, and have difficulties attending school, which can make maintaining a career almost impossible for women.
@HopNApple@Tweettowhoo@GemmaAlexa1990@wesandpete “Middle Eastern” isn’t a physical description. If they were speaking Arabic/Farsi/Turkish then say that. Otherwise all he means is they had black hair and olive skin, like a huge percentage of the world.
@GarethPrytherch @ProfDonnaHall I think if all the poorly-paid staff on the ground doing community work went on strike, a lot of charities would fall apart.
@mindgame2004 Thanks for sharing this. It's a really uncomfortable read, especially as he comes across as more wholesome than a lot of the Youtubers my kid watches :-(
@TamsinRussell Been there in the charity sector. Redundancy has such a long-term impact on your mental health. I’m only just building confidence back 3 years later.
@msjudehunter@lokiscottishrap This is what makes me uncomfortable about poverty truth commissions where the person coordinating them is a salaried employee.
33 years ago tonight, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality.
#TransAwarenessWeek
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was fifteen, to her sister, Kate a year later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/