We are fashioned creatures, but half made up- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
The moon made me do it.
Hex the patriarchy to ash.
Resistance is always justified.
Se você é um homem que nunca assobiou, estuprou, tocou e/ou assediou uma mulher, você é um homem normal.
Você não é bom, você não é ótimo, você não é perfeito, você não é um cara legal. Você é normal.
Isso é como pessoas normais se comportam, você não merece um parabéns.
I’ve been given detailed information about Tyrendarra Football Netball Club’s internal communications with parents after we learned convicted child sex abuser James (Jimmy) Williams remains a listed player with the club.
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There are people sitting on porches tonight listening to crickets.
People driving home with tired eyes and favorite songs.
People folding laundry beside someone they love.
The world is still full of gentle things.
I really hate the “no person who works a full-time job should live in poverty” discourse. It should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We have to let go of the idea that we work in exchange for our worth. People are innately worthy and deserving of the basics.
Today is the hardest one for me. May 22.
Every year it rolls around faster than the year before.
As I write, her family is marking their 36th year without her.
Stacey-Ann Tracy was murdered by my stepfather on May 22, 1990. She will be forever nine years old. Stacey was the second child abducted, raped and murdered by my mother's husband. He also killed five-year-old Sandra Dorothy Bacon.
I've spent the past 11 years doing everything I can to ensure Stacey and Sandra have a legacy. My work documenting the killing of women and children - and everything else I do in this space - is inspired by these little girls. Their's were the first names on my Memorial and now there are more than 3000 stories of lives lived and lost.
Stacey deserved all the good things in life - to live a childhood free of violence, to achieve her goals and ambitions and to spend her sunset years in the manner she dreamed of.
She should be wrapped in the loving arms of her mum Janet, sister Elizabeth and nan Joan. Her family members were irrevocably changed by the actions of my stepfather on that day - he destroyed the trajectory of their lives.
I would trade everything to rewind May 22, 1990 - to ensure Stacey returned home safe. She will always be the gentle angel in my heart.
* You can help me get a Royal Commission into the Killing of Women and Girls by signing the petition using the link in my bio (Insta) or go to: https://t.co/Cxq1KK37O6.
You know it's budget time in Australia when politicians and insiders talk about a program that assists some of the most vulnerable people in the Australian community as being financially unsustainable but at the same time defence spending is increasing at record levels and we're already paying $500 billion ++ for the possibility that we'll get a couple of subs 15-20 years from now.
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