Grace Dunne

Staying up too late reading and thinking about community development, data, inequalities and social justice

[Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner]

"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

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@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.

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@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.

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@wesandpete @BarbaraHEARTFI3 Not going to address the nasty xenophobia coming from your fans?

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@mumf14 @funky_cact26918 @wesandpete Except it was clearly a robbery..

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@GrandmaMary_2 @wesandpete Exactly. What’s wrong with “olive skin, black hair”?

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@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.

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@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 :-(

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@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.

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@msjudehunter @lokiscottishrap This is what makes me uncomfortable about poverty truth commissions where the person coordinating them is a salaried employee.

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@lanternstalk being absolutely incredible tonight. My heart!

[amykaufman @amykaufman84]

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.

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@nonprofitssay Don’t forget to map the mapping exercises!

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

The relationship between ADHD and emotional dysregulation is fascinating and a bit depressing 😳 https://t.co/u00KnLzChk

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

@tomemurtha @paulsng Really looking forward to it!

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

I adore Tish Murtha’s work and how much she clearly loved Newcastle and its young people.

[Tom Murtha. Retired. @tomemurtha]

More of @tishmurtha’s great work. These kids mattered’: Tish Murtha’s images of childhood poverty in the UK – in pictures https://t.co/PGH7RFBpuq

[Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter @alicemydaughter]

#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/

[Grace Dunne @GraceDunneNE]

Wrote my first big funding bid last month and just found out we’ve been awarded £6000 🥳