Julie Ann Richards

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Systemic Violence is Secondary Abuse

By the end of New Year’s Day 2022 France was already counting 3 dead women murdered by their husbands and ex-partner.

Jan 3, 2022

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Jan 3, 2022

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I’m a Survivor that keeps on surviving

When you are a survivor of domestic, sexual and/or physical male violence and abuse, we are often credited (as it should be) as a warrior…

Jul 15, 2021

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Jul 15, 2021

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Romancing the killer

#HerNameWasClaireParry

Oct 28, 2020

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Oct 28, 2020

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An ideology harmful to whom?

I knew not but the next

Jul 31, 2020

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Jul 31, 2020

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Prosperity for all…unless you are female

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse…

Jul 28, 2020

Failing Family Court undergoes major reform following national review

The announcement by the Ministry of Justice, Thursday, 25th June that there will be sweeping reforms to the Family Court system and…

Jul 17, 2020

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Jul 17, 2020

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V is for Voices not Vendetta

2020 has been one of the bleakest of years and it is still only June.

Jun 26, 2020

Jun 26, 2020

When being strong isn’t enough

Recently a survivor of domestic abuse tweeted “I don’t want to be told I am strong. I want abusers to be held accountable. I want systems…

Jun 22, 2020

Kintsugi — the art of precious scars

There is a beautiful Japanese pottery art form, Kintsugi — the golden repair, where potters mend the cracks and broken pieces of pottery…

May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020

Domestic abuse — the perpetual global pandemic

Within the first week of lockdown in South Africa the police had received over 87, 000 gender based complaints of domestic violence…

Apr 28, 2020

Coercive Control is self-isolation for victims 24–7

As the Coronavirus pandemic shifts our world to one that is smaller, lonelier, scarier, fraught with traps and trepidation, imagine how…

Mar 14, 2020

Parental Alienation ‘theory’ is a gender issue

In the slip and slide of gender politics one thing is very clear, deep rooted bias against women is increasing not decreasing in the 21st…

Mar 11, 2020

Parental Alienation ‘theory’ is a gender issue

Mar 11, 2020

Family Courts are complicit in secondary domestic abuse

Over the past few years in the UK there has been a palpable shift towards raising awareness of domestic abuse, in particular, coercive…

Mar 10, 2020

Family Courts are complicit in secondary domestic abuse

Mar 10, 2020