Best Friend's Handbook

Best friends help each other. This book helps them do that. Advice from experts in your pocket. No charger required.

[Best Friend's Handbook @best_handbook]

Jo and Ali had a fantastic time discussing The Best Friend's Handbook with the brilliant Jane and Bex on @IncitefulPod! Their insight & warmth made for such a great conversation. Have a listen!

[Inciteful Sisters @IncitefulPod]

Such an inspiring episode tonight! ♥️
We spoke to the incredible Ali & Jo at @best_handbook about their Best Friend's Handbook. An excellent resource to inform, advise, and help girls support each other and themselves.

Listen here:
https://t.co/iwuUArXARF

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Only 6 days left to nominate an inspirational woman or organisation for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize or Centre for Women's Justice Award.

🔗 https://t.co/ugnOZAy8ZW

[Best Friend's Handbook @best_handbook]

RT @womensart1: Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be based on one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart

[Best Friend's Handbook @best_handbook]

RT @RealDianeYap: “You’ll die alone, a wrinkled and childless crone with only cats and wine” isn’t a scary idea to women, but it reveals the deepest fear of men.

Old single women are social and happy. Old single men are lonely and sad.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Her family raised her very well.

[em. (they/she) @_emnm14]

men are 100% more emotional than women, society just likes to pretend that anger and impatience aren’t emotions

[Dr Alexis Paton @dralexispaton]

I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. https://t.co/LNUFVr90HY

[Best Friend's Handbook @best_handbook]

RT @MenAtWork_MC: I ask professionals I train if impacts of porn are perceptible in the lives of the boys/young men they work with. Many who replay say ‘yes’. I then ask ‘if yes, in positive or negative ways?’

In 100% of cases it is ‘negative’

100%

Thx @HadleyFreeman

[Plan International @PlanGlobal]

Girls today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. With gender equality 5 generations away, we must act now to protect their voices & futures. They can't wait and neither can we. #GirlsRights

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Why can’t we believe that "kind" and "gentle" men can be abusers and murderers?
Eulogising violent men must stop.
https://t.co/hAZVJ0H1l8

[Jade Blue @jadeblueLDN]

A listener shared today on Woman’s Hour how hearing conversations on coercive control helped her recognise it in her own life. That’s the power of spaces like this - they don’t just raise awareness, they give people the language to understand their own experiences.

It was the same for me. I didn’t know the London Victims’ Commissioner or her role existed - but after hearing her on Woman’s Hour, I felt compelled to reach out and share my own difficult experiences with the Metropolitan Police, in the hope it might help shape change. That moment marked the beginning of my journey into advocacy.

Spaces like this are vital - they bridge personal experience and public awareness, and that’s how we move things forward.

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

'Feminists warn: deportation is not just a geographic relocation. It is a return to a system of institutionalized misogyny, where women are stripped of their most basic rights. It is a violent act that targets the body, life, and freedom of Afghan women'

https://t.co/04RspgC34y

[Surviving Economic Abuse @SEAresource]

“Knowing this was economic abuse would have made such a difference.”

Awareness can make a huge difference for victim-survivors of economic abuse.

When women understand what economic abuse is, or know about our work, they’re more likely to seek help.

With your support, we can increase public understanding so that more people, including victim-survivors, can spot the signs of economic abuse and know how to access support.

Find out how you can get involved ⬇️
https://t.co/7j3xsKhE8M

[Deenarh❤️🦋 @deeRoyale]

"no man wants a woman who"

we don't care lol

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
By Rebecca Solnit
https://t.co/BhxTwuhfof

[Caitlin Roper @caitlin_roper]

A group of women, including survivors, objected to games glorifying rape, incest, extreme sexualised torture and violence against women.

@CollectiveShout called on gaming platforms to take them down, and when they didn't, we wrote an open letter to payment processors, who then required gaming platforms to update their policies and no longer host these games.

As a result, thousands of men who are angry about losing their rape games, have subjected us to an onslaught of misogynistic abuse, rape and death threats. They have sent us porn + CSAM, turned our images into porn, made threats against our families, expressed their desire for our deaths or suicides, published details about our small team of women and asked Grok where we live and where we get coffee.

Despite this, the dominant narrative has been that we deserve it. That we – while on the receiving end of threats to hunt us down and kill us – are the aggressors. That women are responsible for men’s violence and abuse against us, and we should keep our mouths shut about rape and sexualised violence against women.

These men reveal their true natures in their abuse of women who they disagree with.

This has been a campaign of extreme misogyny waged by men who want to silence women who call out men’s violence against us. Whatever your views might be on gaming or our campaign, there is no denying what we’re experiencing right now is male violence against women.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1967, Woody Allen tried to embarrass model Twiggy - and it backfired

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

“One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society”