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Patricia Debney
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Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re Child Sexual Abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/ #CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
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So what I do in life is write and teach writing. Who I am of course is much more layered, and an important part of how I am in the world is linked to being a #survivor of #childsexualabuse #CSA, perpetrated by my father. More about all of this on my website: patriciadebney.com
PATRICIA DEBNEY
One in 6 children is sexually abused, 90% by someone they know and trust, within the family fold. I was one of those children. An author of five books, I now turn myself to raising awareness, break…
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This was so important. Thank you.
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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MIT following Harvard's lead here
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This event might be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse and the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we would appreciate a repost) @survivorsrise.bsky.social
Join us for the CSAReps project online launch event Apr 29th & 30th

With esteemed speakers @drcisme.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @hazelklarkin.bsky.social @brenrooney.bsky.social Chris Godwin David Hanauer & Emilie Pine

Register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/csareps-pr...
Contact: [email protected]
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I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Join us for the CSAReps project online launch event Apr 29th & 30th

With esteemed speakers @drcisme.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @hazelklarkin.bsky.social @brenrooney.bsky.social Chris Godwin David Hanauer & Emilie Pine

Register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/csareps-pr...
Contact: [email protected]
It’s really too much. He doesn’t get it. To be fair - I think he knows now that he didn’t get it when he needed to. But it’s too late.
If you need help, you create structures to help. If more people need to be part of the process, you find the people. You figure it out. You think outside the default. Not investigate sexual abuse because it was ‘overwhelming’? This smells of fear. #CSA #welby

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Justin Welby was too ‘overwhelmed’ by scale of abuse in C of E to take action
In first interview since resigning, former archbishop of Canterbury says more cases were arriving every day and he ‘got it wrong’
www.theguardian.com
‘austere and lonely offices’? (Robert Hayden)
For anyone who hasn’t seen this group yet. 💪
Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.
First they came for gender identity….

I wonder if the gender critical brigade will EVER admit that their agenda is a profoundly right wing one? But the reality is here: erasure of trans and queer people.

Because wow that 1% of the population is such a threat.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US park service erases references to trans people from Stonewall monument website
National monument commemorates 1969 riot led by trans women of color outside historic New York City bar
www.theguardian.com
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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.
These children are no longer protected. They are being systematically raped. Shame on you Trump and Musk. And unfortunately - shame on the US for allowing this to happen. I’m an American living abroad. And it’s so heartbreaking to watch all of this.
and shame on Trump who has paused funding to protect these women and children: “One mother recounted to our staff how her six daughters, the youngest just 12 years old, were systematically raped by armed men while searching for food.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
Scores of children raped by armed men in eastern DRC, UNICEF says
UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups.
www.aljazeera.com
Exactly. It is total madness.
So. I do get that the US ‘administration’ is committing crimes at the rate of knots. However. I feel like my brain is melting: how is firing thousands from their federal jobs ‘helping’ the economy? This seems such an obvious weakening of it. Thousands unable to support themselves/others. Really?!
I’m almost frozen with horror. It is totally paralysing. Do you get the sense that any opposition is organising? We really, really need help now.
And what the hell planet is he on? Are they on? I mean: they treat the world like their playground. We are being bludgeoned over and over.
Excellent. 💪
Excellent news #CSA #Itsnotok 'A three-year time limit for child sexual abuse victims to sue for damages will be removed in England and Wales under "long overdue" government reforms, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed
Victims will be able to file claims when they are ready and are likelier to receive an apology, the government says.
www.bbc.co.uk
Take note. More and more and more protests must happen. We have HAD IT with this crap.
Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
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🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.