An open platform names and shames education institutions in Sexual Assault Testimonies

When you work in and around the Online world you can quickly become used to the way in which events around the world can be communicated and can see where people’s best intent lies. However, sometimes you know from experience and sitting with people in therapy why some of these communications, no matter how well-intended can be utilised by people and result in harm further down the timeline.

Since the death of a woman, by a man (I am not getting into a gender conversation here but clarifying the following before you read on) there has been a stir in the need to bring this conversation to the forefront, as did the murder of a man drive the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. A year of polarised stress, distress, anger and time that we began to have conversations that are uncomfortable and up until now fairly taboo, due to their polemic nature.

The current conversation about the murder of a woman has seemingly diverged into sexual violence against women and then evolved into sexual violence as a subject and topic. Now, I agree we certainly need spaces and places to talk and work through systemic issues that plague the human species. However, I am not so sure that the nervous systems of many of us are tailored to be in those spaces with the open posture to listen and learn.