Someone vandalised the She Matters mural with 'war on men'
I'm sitting in my car crying with sadness and anger.
I'll be there at 10am tomorrow to replace it. Please come and help me.
It's incredible Hosier Lane, Melbourne. Near Flinders Street Station.
If you can't make it but want to help out you can use the links below.
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❤️SHE MATTERS: VICKY VAN AKEN!❤️
'Tragic set of cicrumstances' is how some journalists and police are describing the killing of Vicky Van Aken, in front of her two children, in Bayswater, Victoria, yesterday.
Her male neighbour is charged with murder.
Vicky is the 83rd Australian woman killed this year and the 13th killed in the past three weeks.
The man's son was also injured.
This was anything but a tragic set of circumstances. It was a controlled and deliberate decision by a violent male to murder a woman on her own doorstep.
Calling it a tragic set of circumstances basically frames Vicky's murder as the wrong place, the wrong time. It takes agency away from the killer and puts blame on Vicky for... well... existing.
Sometimes, it feels authorities and media refuse to acknowledge the truth about male violence. The rush to erase responsibility makes my head spin.
Vicky was an awesome mum, colleagues, friend, and family member. She was a woman who deserved the best in life - but a violent man took that away.
Vicky matters.
REST IN POWER VICKY VAN AKEN! ❤️
❤️The Memorial to Women and Children Lost to Violence: https://t.co/QJ2OuxMB8C
❤️The Australian Femicide & Child Death Map: https://t.co/HUEd7YnyWr
I document ALL unlawful deaths of women and children, regardless of perpetrator gender or relationship between the person killed and the accused. This means not every death is due to domestic and family violence. Australians are also killed by strangers, friends, colleagues, neighbours and other people known to them.
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I was one of the Arabs that didn’t care to block the xmas window till I saw this “We are all a bit sick of this stuff”.
You put suffering down to “this stuff”, you think we aren’t sick of waking to check if our family are dead? Sick of seeing bodies that look like ours shredded
He is on yours".
This is because they know I would love to have @reynoldsgareth on my podcast. I don't even know why i got a drive by, I wasn't even in the conversation. Hehe
My 13yo and 15yo were arguing because 13 thinks hot dogs and burgers are sandwiches. 15 thinks this is the most bananas thing they have heard. 13 says "I'm going to start a podcast arguing about this with people. I will get @reynoldsgareth to be on my podcast before
It's NDIS story time. This happened today.
This will be a long multi post.
I'm pretty disheartened and upset and will be logging off after I post.
A few months ago, I arranged to get an OT functional capacity assessment for my son, who's currently on NDIS, who's got autism &ADHD
Good story today by liam_hrl_96 (he’s not on Twitter but can be found on Instagram) in the Saturday paper today about the rental hellscape if you’re interested.
https://t.co/EJQHzyOClS
@JoshMichalski@AlboMP No, the problem is that he isn't left wing enough. I understand this is hard for you to understand when you are to the right of Attila the Hun.