Sarah

feminist, socialist, Unison activist, v pro-Scottish independence, intersectionality & motown. prof interests: attachment, early yrs, VAW. personal account

[Tobias Menzies @TobiasMenzies]

SNP's Mhairi Black attacks housing benefit cuts in first Commons speech http://t.co/FcatpVpT7y
Truly inspiring! what an amazing woman

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

PLEASE SIGN: ETUC owes Greece an apology for calling to cancel the referendum #OXI #GREFERENDUM https://t.co/ISphjLQxwW via @UKChange

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

#OXI #OXI #OXI solidarity with Greece!

[Suki Sangha @sukisangh]

This is a critical moment for Greece but also for every other movement of the Left across Europe. Solidarity is absolutely necessary..

[Liam McLaughlan @LiamMcLaughlan]

@LiamMcLaughlan "This bus go into the town big man?"

[Liam McLaughlan @LiamMcLaughlan]

@LiamMcLaughlan exhibit a- the dug.

[Liam McLaughlan @LiamMcLaughlan]

A big dug has just got on my bus and took a seat at the front upstairs and is travelling like a normal customer. No obvious owner

[Shakti Women's Aid @shaktiedinburgh]

Coercive control is the single most common context in which child abuse occurs #childrendontjustwitness #evanstark

[Stephen Madill💚🤍💜 @Sadiq_Filastin]

"@NicolaGilchrist: It is a man's choice to expose his children to abuse #childrendontjustwitness" As D Mandel says, it's a parenting choice

[Scottish Women's Aid @scotwomensaid]

A packed room for our conference with Evan Stark today #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

We must recognise where mothers make the most protective choices possible within abusive constraints they're facing #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

How do we bring back "the invisible man" in cases of domestic abuse affecting children instead of blaming mothers? #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

How often do professionals expect women to risk their safety to protect children? (they do this every day anyway) #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

"The battered mother's dilemma: when the victim is forced to choose between her own & her child's safety" #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

How does the system use children as a way to harm or control the parent? How does this mirror perpetrator strategy? #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

@ZTScotland agree! Has to be seen as an infringement of wider human rights; a public problem not just an individual injury.

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

The abuse of children can be used as a weapon by perpetrator to consolidate coercive control of woman #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

The risk of exposure to abuse shouldn't be assumed to outweigh risk of trauma of removing children from family home #childrendontjustwitness

[Sarah @twobonestopick]

The hierarchy of grief means we sometimes focus on impact of children, not mothers, to get abuse taken seriously #childrendontjustwitness