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24.01.2022 Today we finish up our Hope + Heal Retreat. It's been amazing. The women have been courageous. The facilitators so kind and inspiring. We love what we do.... If you would like to know more or help out, please visit: www.hopeandheal.org.au THANK YOU TO Nadine Taylor - our founder Jan, Moving Forward, Education Facilitator Carmel Catanuto - Art Therapy Celeste Heazlett - Massage Healer Share the Dignity - for bag donations Ana Balta - volunteer

20.01.2022 This year is like no other. Even before COVID-19 hit, violence against women and girls had reached pandemic proportions. Globally, 243 million women and girls ...were abused by an intimate partner in the past year. Meanwhile, less than 40% of women who experience violence report it or seek help. A survey of specialists at 34 community services across NSW earlier in the year found rising rates of women experiencing domestic violence since the onset of the pandemic, with more than 85% recording an increase in the complexity of client cases. This is why #16DaysOfActivism exists - to provide an opportunity for the community to band together to reject violence and encourage conversations about preventing violence. #16days #orangetheworld #genderequality

19.01.2022 We are jumping into a tricky and rarely discussed topic Stealthing. Have you heard of it? What do you know? Stealthing is the non-consensual removal of a cond...om during sex. This not only exposes you to physical risks like pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections, but it's a violation of your rights. In Australia, one in three women and one in five men who took part in Monash University's research in 2018 said they had been stealthed. "I thought you could feel it" or "I thought you knew" are lines given from men who stealth. In reality, it's one person valuing and prioritising their own sexual gratification over another and using power and control for dominance. Stealthing is considered sexual assault or rape by many experts because it turns what is considered a consensual act into a non-consensual one. But it's a rarely seen in court or by police, with only 1 per cent of respondents who had been stealthed in the Monash University study reporting it. Only one case of non-consensual condom removal has ever made it to court in Australia and the outcome still has not been determined due to COVID-19 court delays. With a growing awareness around stealthing and more people talking about this stigma-ridden topic, we want you to know that you are not alone and it is not okay. If you have been a victim of stealthing or any other form of sexual violence, you can reach out to your local sexual assault support service, share it with someone you trust or contact 1800 RESPECT for support. We’ve been collaborating with @Cheeky_Palm during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Artist profile: Gadigal/Sydney based artist Hayley O'Mara's (@Cheeky_Palm) artwork looks at social justice through a lens of finding light. Her artwork portrays gender and sexuality-based insights and tales of friendship and mental wellbeing. Follow her incredible work on Instagram @Cheeky_Palm.

19.01.2022 Almost a year ago, Scott Morrison promised money for domestic violence shelters but never gave them the money. Now he's trying to claim credit for re-announci...ng the funding he failed to deliver in the first place. How can he explain this cruel deception? Women and children desperately need this support.

17.01.2022 You are still here. You are not a victim. You are a victor.

15.01.2022 Trauma teaches you to close your heart and armour up. Healing teaches you to open your heart and boundary up. ... #healing #boundaries #selflove #love See more

14.01.2022 This video is dedicated to all the children of the world. Let us end the cycle of trauma that prevents the healing of our species and the world. #WhatKidsNeedMost

14.01.2022 Day 2 of #16DaysofActivism Destroyers, today is Day 2 of the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-B...ased Violence. This year’s international theme is Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!’ Today sees publication of the UK Femicide Census report, produced by Karen Ingala Smith and Clarissa O’Callaghan, which analyses 1,425 killings of women and girls, from the age of 14 to 100, at the hands of men, over a 10-year period, 2009-2018. As reported by Yvonne Roberts for the Observer, it seems impossible for activists to communicate the extent of the killings: People say, ‘It’s only a few women a week that die’, Gemma Aitchison says. But it’s been a few women a week ever since I was born, and I’m 34. It’s a huge systemic problem. The census says these women matter. https://tinyurl.com/y4up5k7t Here in Australia, Destroy The Joint was very aware that women’s deaths - ‘just domestic’ deaths, deaths of sex workers, transwomen, Indigenous women, or women with disability - did not ‘count’ for much in Australian society to politicians, police or the media. The political, legal and media response to coward punch deaths as compared with the silence surrounding deaths due to violence against women (VAW) indicated which members of our society ‘count’ as most valuable. Destroy The Joint has been Counting Dead Women since August 2013, after initial discussions with Ingala Smith in UK. We now maintain registers which honour all known women dead due to VAW in Australia since January 2012. By researching and registering the names of women victims of VAW, we aim to make the deaths ‘count’, and to bring about social and legal reform to eliminate VAW. By adopting a stringent set of criteria for our count, we show that development of a national database is possible despite the vagaries of a federal system. We are very careful to add to our Registers only when charges are laid, or there is sufficient known detail to define the death as being due to targetted violence against women. Our count differs from the UK census in counting only adult women i.e. those over 18 unless they are living independently of their parents or guardians. We adopt an extended definition of Family Violence to accommodate Australian social and cultural conditions, most specifically Indigenous and other non-Anglo cultures which have complex extended family relationships. We are also informed by the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993), which encompasses violence occurring within the general community or in institutions. We include VAW committed by women against women: such crimes reflect the lateral violence (also called horizontal violence, internalised misogyny) generated among women by patriarchal oppression. The UK Femicide Census identifies that each death is treated by various agencies as an isolated incident and giving no cause for wider public concern. It concludes with a series of recommendations, including the thorough collection of sex-desegregated data. Our Counting Dead Women Australia campaign calls on federal, state and territory governments to establish and fully fund a standardised national database and nationally integrated death review boards to gain a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding violence against women and improve systemic responses. You can access our Annual Registers here: https://tinyurl.com/y6ew3a8f Destroyers, we have taken up the challenge to ‘Respond, Prevent, Collect’ but we desperately need help to ‘Fund’ our research. Increasingly, the local and national reporting we rely on is locked behind paywalls. Can you help us take action to eliminate Violence against Women? Every donation helps our researchers to access the reputable, timely reports they rely on. Donations, however small, are welcome and can be made via this paypal link: https://tinyurl.com/y678ttmj Or direct deposit to: BSB 032-249 Account number: 316752 (Destroy The Joint). ====================== - If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit https://www.1800respect.org.au/ - For information about local services download the free Daisy App https://www.1800respect.org.au/daisy/ - Accessible information and support is available via the free Sunny App which has been developed for and by women with disability https://www.1800respect.org.au/sunny/ - For Aboriginal Family Domestic Violence Hotline, call 1800 019 123 - For legal information, visit the Family Violence Law Help website: https://familyviolencelaw.gov.au ** In an emergency, call 000.

12.01.2022 We would like to thank everyone who has recently donated funds, food and/or their time to our work. This service would not be possible without all of the suppo...rt from our volunteers and supporters. Our food program aims to help those with food insecurity in our community. Food parcels are available once a month, every Wednesday between 1pm to 3pm. To be eligible, you must be a low income earner or on Centrelink benefit, refugee status or a temporary visa holder. Please support our Food Program and visit our website to donate www.kogarahstorehouse.org.au Metro Assist, Sisters of Charity Foundation, Ramsgate RSL Club, Bayside Council, Georges River Council, Club Rivers, IGA Bexley, Feed Appeal, OzHarvest, Coles, SecondBite, Brighton RSL, Mark Coure MP, Linda Burney, Chris Minns MP, Advance Diversity Services - ADS, Big Sister Foundation, Bakers Delight Kogarah, Nando's Kogarah, #communitycafe #kogarahstorehouse #supportingthecommunity #foodparcels #kogarah

11.01.2022 Thank you Delia Donovan from DV NSW for representing our services on SBS tonight. Great work and much appreciated.

10.01.2022 I Am Woman. A tribute to Helen Reddy. #ARIAs

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09.01.2022 Have you experienced #domesticviolence whilst residing in NSW? We’d like to hear from you about what it was like trying to access safety and justice. Contact us [email protected] for survey link

08.01.2022 one for the #NotAllMen club - this is what you need to do. Starting with listening

05.01.2022 Last week, our Zonta members helped clear out a warehouse of sample bedlinen and towels, sorted it and have now distributed to 4 local women’s refuges. So great to be able to help out the hard working refuge staff and clients. Thanks for the goods Simba Global.

03.01.2022 Recently I finished writing my Bachelor's thesis about the portrayal of Menstruation in media and society - a real taboo topic. So taboo in fact, that the coord...inator of my German university not only refused to help me but actively discouraged me from formulating this topic in a way to find a supervisor. (She told me that I would never find a professor who would approve this topic. To paraphrase what they said in English, there is no scientific bases for this topic and the reason for that: it's a taboo). Now that I've successfully completed my bachelor thesis and defended it before a panel of professors in my final presentation, everybody involved has recognized the importance of this topic since ignorance surrounding menstruation has wide reaching consequences for the environment, the economy and financial and social gender equality. I'm not trying to convince you to throw a "period party", neither am I going to wave a used tampon underneath your nose. I just want people to be aware of some important facts: Half of the population of the world loses approximately a 30-50 milliliters of blood every month (for approximately 40 years of their live time - this makes up six and a half years in total). Although this process is crucial for the origin of every single human being, menstruating people have been heavily discriminated in many major religious texts and even scientific medical consensus up to the middle of the 20th century. The connotation of menstruating women evokes images of poisonous monsters, the devil, psychological and physical deficits and above all, in the vast majority of cases, being depicted as unclean and inferior. (This is part of the old testament: "When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening." To sum up the entire text, menstruating women should be completely excluded from society and live like a hermit for seven days.After which, in order to return to civilization they are also required to bring two doves to a priest who will sacrifice them in a ceremony to "purify" the woman. If people don't guard against this "uncleanliness" the whole society will collapse. [Leviticus 15:19-33]. No bullshit.) Ofcourse, you can say that as a society we have developed past such extreme views, but in fact this attitude still presents itself in more subtle ways. Nowadays women are still being stigmatized (She´s just grumpy because she's on her period. We can't have a female leader - what if she starts a war when she gets her period!!??) and portrayed as hysterical, over emotional and not being able to make clear decisions. (Remembering Trump's comment about Fox moderator Megyn Kelly....) As a consequence women and girls feel ashamed and uncomfortable, whisper to each other like criminals when they need a tampon because of their "biological weakness" and are not taken seriously when they have ailments related to their period. Worldwide, every day, women and girls are being held back in social situations, education and work, don't have access to sanitary products or are being excluded from society due to lack of education and are being declared as unclean and inferior. In India 20 percent of girls drop out of school with the beginning of their menstruation. In many other countries women are socially prohibited from leaving the house during their menstruation due to a fear that they are contagious and could spread diseases like cancer. Even in Germany, half of the women say that they feel uncomfortable in social situations while menstruating. 16 percent of them have described missing school, work or other engagmentents because they are afraid (!!) that others might notice that they are on their period. So in fact, this social stigma is so strong that people will remove themselves from society during their period! Many women feel shame when buying tampons in a supermarket (in Germany, this is reported as one out of five) and on top of that, it costs them an arm and a leg! Pads and tampons are taxed heavily almost everywhere. In Germany, they are taxed 19 % which is the highest possible for general goods (higher than totally necessary items like salmon caviar or cut flowers). If you ask yourself "who would make up such a rule?" it doesn't take long to realize: People who don't menstruate. Over a lifetime, women pay on average a four-digit number just for their period (according to bloodyluxurytax.de 8600 Euro including almost 1650 in taxes).* This reinforces gender and economic inequality, while there is already a gender pay-gap in Germany and on top of that women are required to pay an extra cost every month for their essential needs. Btw for everybody who hasn't heard of it before, there is a reusable, hygienic alternative to tampons called the menstrual cup (or moon cup) which is of course not made of ceramic but medical silicon . Not only is this a lot cheaper because you buy it once for around 20 Euros, and it lasts for years but it is also a better option for the environment because it prevents thousands of tonnes of disposed tampons and pads ending up in landfill. Luckily, in recent years there is movement starting to grow in order to change the attitude towards periods. In some countries the "tampon tax" has been abolished or lowered. Even on the day I presented my thesis, Scotland decided to give sanitary products away for free to low income women. (In your face university!!) This is part of the reason why I am posting this and why I wrote this thesis in the first place. To stop period shaming, raise awareness of economic inequality and the mistreatment of women because of this natural bodily function. We have to end this taboo in order to create a more fair and equal society. So I ask you to talk about this issue, raise your voice against this stupid tax, write papers about it and embarrass ignorant professors (my examiners - especially the male ones - were left speechless and had to acknowledge the value of this work) - and everybody calm down. It's just a bit of blood. #bloodyluxurytax #period #menstruation #menstruationmatters #erdbeerwoche #SCA #planinternational #unicef #vivalavulva #pinktax #tamponsteuer This is the original post which I created a few days ago in German: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211997735770830&set=a.1088265418962&type=3&theater¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic¬if_id=1535730007697666 check out my blog: www.frankafrei.com *source: http://www.bloodyluxurytax.de +++Update 2020: I’ve written and published a book about the political dimension of periods in German Periode ist politisch. Ein Manifest gegen das Menstruationstabu. For more info info, follow me on Instagram (@frankafrei) - I’ve been posting a lot in German lately. If you want to get more content about menstruation and menstrual health in English check out Menstrual Health Hub - MH Hub, Chris Bobel, Nadya Okamoto, Chella Quint, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, Lara Briden and Amanda Laird +++