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What Are We Waiting For? – Portia Smart
https://portiasmart.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/what-are-we-waiting-for
May 19, 2014. May 25, 2015. What Are We Waiting For? Whenever a male celebrity. Is in the media because the Crown Prosecution Service is pursuing allegations of his abuse and violence against women and children, I momentarily stop. And wait. I am not sure what I am waiting for, I don’t dare to believe that those accused of male violence will be found guilty. Wanting justice to be done and for the general public to agree with the decision? Can you contemplate a world without male violence? Women are human...
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Did You Know? – Portia Smart
https://portiasmart.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/did-you-know
May 21, 2015. May 25, 2015. Did you know that your friend is a rapist? With his friendly smile and his sparkly eyes that defies her request for him to STOP. With his bar-room jokes and his rolled-up smokes that reminds her that her body is his. Did you know that your colleague is a rapist? With his dodgy back and his decaying breath that communicates her worth. With his salary bump and his sullen mood that teaches her to stay quiet. Did you know that your boyfriend is a rapist? With the bruises that you ...
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Portia Smart – Page 2 – Feministing and politiking
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January 30, 2014. May 25, 2015. Continue reading →. January 27, 2014. May 25, 2015. Continue reading →. November 2, 2013. May 25, 2015. Continue reading →. October 1, 2013. May 25, 2015. Continue reading →. August 18, 2013. May 25, 2015. Continue reading →. July 19, 2013. May 25, 2015. We Need To Talk About Women. Continue reading →. June 22, 2013. May 25, 2015. Everyday Victim Blaming – am I ‘victim’ enough for you? Continue reading →. Newer posts →. Follow me on Twitter. It is NOT mine.
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Parallel Lives – Portia Smart
https://portiasmart.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/parallel-lives-2
February 21, 2015. May 25, 2015. This post has been a long time coming. As a woman informed by radical feminism, much of my activism and consciousness-raising has centred around the theme of male violence against women. My career has followed a similar trajectory and now my presence on social media follows the same path. I set up a. Site to write what I feel and I did not intend for it to be a commentary on male violence against women. But something incredible happened when I wrote my first. Some of us d...
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The Femicide Census – Portia Smart
https://portiasmart.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/the-femicide-census
February 16, 2015. May 25, 2015. Counting Dead Women: 2009-2013. I’m writing this post on the day that Karen Ingala Smith. Launch their Femicide Census. A vital partnership project that reveals the pattern of UK femicide women killed by men in the UK. Since Karen established Counting Dead Women. To record women murdered by men in the UK, these women have become a part of my consciousness. I recall how the media reports on the men who murder women: the good father ,. The doting husband , the puppy farmer.
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It is NOT mine. – Portia Smart
https://portiasmart.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/it-is-not-mine
September 11, 2014. December 31, 2015. It is NOT mine. I am angry because I am worth being angry about –. I’ve been angry for many, many years. We don’t like anger much in the UK. We are at once terrified and bewildered when it lies within women. Female anger is feared because it is seen as unusual, against type. Angry men are passionate and assertive, angry women are irrational and disturbed. Anger is seen as a cancer, eating away at our bodies, minds, and hearts. Or could it be because it is powerful?
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