Clare Lavery
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Clare Lavery
@clerotto.bsky.social
Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist
Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children
Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities
Language Matters
The fences we mend
The fences we build
The fences we disguise

Now is the season to examine those fences
Embrace a new way

Advent: Festa in Italy this weekend
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
‘Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur’

Advent decorations
Mandria Hunting Lodge
Venaria Reale 🇮🇹

Victor Hugo- Demain dès L’Aube
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Frangines sing Hugo 🎶🎶
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December 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
On a festive weekend
An invigorating walk
Following kilometres of tracks
on the Italian Royal Hunting estate
Restored barns resplendent
Nature’s gifts decorating window ledges & door frames
Misty peaks silhouetting the landscape

Hunting High & Low
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December 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"There is no snow more beautiful than that of Saturday evening. It resembles the feathers of angelic wings"

Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israeli poet and writer 1887 1970 Nobel Literature 1966

With fresh snow on the Higher peaks today on the 🇮🇹border

Photo c/o @RamellaUgo
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Goldfish Bowl

#OrangeTheWorld #16Days #16DaysOfActivism2025 #VAWG

Day 12 Shine a Light
No Shame in sight
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Clare Lavery
When girls feel safe in every space, online and offline, they can learn, express themselves and become who they want to be.

Safety is more than protection. It gives them the confidence to explore opportunities and realise their potential.

All spaces should be safe for every girl. #NoExcuse
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Some good walking up ahead
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way

Walking (For your Love)
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December 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days Day 12 #16DaysOfActivism2025 #VAWG

Violence in rural or remote communities is harder to disclose & more difficult to investigate
Survivors have complex choices as the community closes in on itself
Recent research highlights need for specific services to victims
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We wake in darkness
of a goldfish bowl
of tight-knit rural
In the full glare of Light
Stories they tell of the dark dark wood
Visit our home
We can run away in Shame
or wake them
The Choice is always Ours

The Waker
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Tabusso - Goldfish under a Full Moon
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Some good walking up ahead
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way

Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Up in the Borgata in Alpine Hills
A local artwork on the rough stone walls of a Church I frequented
Reminded that even when your Church or community fail to protect
There’s always a few dear Souls who climbed before & restore your faith in Humanity

Climb to Safety
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December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days
Day 11 #16DaysOfActivism2025

A time of Peace and Joy is upon us
What the World needs now
Make Peace with your past
Take every opportunity to bring harmony
Diffuse & challenge violence

Downtown Turin
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days

Italy has the highest #femicide rate in Europe
Loving should not mean dying
Recent cases included a considerable digital stalking component

Love well. Love Long

Centre of Turin - red bench
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Advent
#16Days Home & Safety

Central to Human Rights

On a full moon we revisit that place
Tying up loose ends
The crib figures long since fled to calmer shores

Make peace your home 🏠

This is Our Home
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Image
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Tales of wandering in the snow-covered hills
When the landslide brought you down
#VagandoPerLeStrade

Night Night
Notte

Landslide
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December 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Antique shop backstreets of Turin
A timely reminder of dangers we try to warn children about through fairytales of woods, wolves & Little Red Riding Hood
Tales of wandering
#vagandoPerLeStrade

The oldest crimes in History
The Century we ask for Justice
#16DaysofActivism2025
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Day 3 Advent

Art restorers in the backstreets of Turin

You have the power to restore
To bring back colour that has faded in time
To renew your priorities
To refresh and reset
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion”

R. Payne

#VagandoPerLeStrade Di Torino Oggi
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Spotlight on subtleties of #EconomicAbuse
How Fathers behave towards their partner impacts the children
How Fathers make choices harms children
Access to funds in joint accounts to feed children
Access to home impacts children's safety

@seacharity.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost 4 million children in UK affected by economic abuse, charity finds
Research shows perpetrators use methods such as stopping mothers accessing bank accounts and child benefits
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#LanguageMatters Tech Abuse is a Truman Show

Watching’The Truman Show’ is a lesson in gaslighting & manipulation.
Could be triggering for anyone who has been in a Truman Show.
The extent of digital surveillance & its trauma impacts are totally underestimated

Hard watch
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December 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
We don’t celebrate survivors of group think & mobbing enough. If the cognitive dissonance of a toxic family or workplace has to be challenged it can take a superhuman effort to break free
Know your own mind
You can do it
Exit

Truman Talks to the Creator & decides to leave
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December 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"It made me feel like I was living in some sort of Truman
Show"

#16DaysOfActivism2025 #16Days

It takes nerves of steel to exit a tech abuse situation
It feels like leaving a country
Metaphorically
Literally

Cognitive Dissonance with tech abuse can be a killer

refuge.org.uk/news/refuge-...
Refuge reveals rise in tech abuse including spycam surveillance ahead of UN’S 16 Days of Activism
Refuge reveals rise in tech abuse including spycam surveillance ahead of UN’S 16 Days of Activism - Refuge
refuge.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
‘Dance the orange.
The warmth of the landscape,
It draws you forth, so that your
ripeness streams forth
Resplendent on the local
breezes! A glow arising,
revealed’

Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

Felicità
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#ComposizioneDelCuore

Botticelli Nativity
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
“So many are intent on retreating into their heads
dance remains a vital link
Revitalising
connecting us to the heart of our physicality.”
Luckman

#ComposizioneDelCuore The Heart's Dance

Balla Ballerino
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Sandro Botticelli. Natività Mistica
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Brisk start to Advent with a rain-soaked Angel with attitude
Warmed by decent cappuccino & the chatter of old pals

#ColourTheWorldOrange

‘O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’

Shakespeare

Anche gli Angeli
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December 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM