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Image description: the Pope, facing away from the camera. ‘Every time there is a single incident of abuse in the Catholic Church it is a scandal. And I’m glad it is a scandal’ – Cardinal Vincent Nichols’ response to questions on the Catholic Church’s continued association with rape and abuse of children was, in many […]
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Image description: A pink paper heart torn in two, on a black background. At 16 I started my first relationship.The relationship became increasingly emotionally abusive. Having been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder the year before, it’s fair to say that my self-esteem was at rock bottom. Having never had a proper relationship before I was […]
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Image Description: Close-up image of a gas-lit flame Gas-lighting. We’ve all heard of it and most of us have a pretty good understanding of what it means. Often, it is used in the context of intimate relationships in which a partner or partners psychologically manipulate others to make them question their judgements, memories or perceptions. […]
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Student finance England has a strict policy on estranged students, which prevents students from making an application based on their own independent income. If you are an estranged student, this typically leaves you worse off, because you cannot be means tested, and so receive a maximum of £3500 in maintenance loan. At this point your […]
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Image Credit: PxHere Warning: this article contains explicit discussion of rape, abuse and gaslighting. I want to start by saying that Nice Guy is a great play. The characters are compelling, the score is fantastic, the acting is phenomenal. But as someone who has experienced abuse in the past, it disappointed me. Nice Guy, the new musical […]
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Image Credit: Steve Pierce Coming out of the theatre on Tuesday night, the only word I could use to explain how I felt was ‘shell-shocked’. Nice Guy, a new musical about domestic abuse written by Sam Norman and Aaron King, manages to evoke real feelings of trauma in its audience, giving a small, yet important, […]
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Another facet to the sexual abuse and harassment scandal sweeping through the entertainment industry (and beyond) emerged recently in a BuzzFeed article. The piece contained allegations from the openly gay actor, Anthony Rapp, against the two-time Oscar winning, House of Cards star, Kevin Spacey. During a party in Spacey’s apartment in 1986 when Rapp was […]
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CN: Abuse, manipulation, silencing JCR committees are strange. Sometimes they are approached and joined by those who have a genuine desire to make improvements for the JCR. But, more often than not in my opinion, they are spied as opportunities to gain something to write on your CV, to ‘act the businessperson’. It is this […]
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TW: References to sexual assault Clarisa is a 14 year old Dominican girl. Disabled, she experiences the world as a six year old does. This has left her vulnerable to abuse. Last year, a man raped her many times and then offered her body to another man. He had a reputation for trafficking young girls […]
Continue ReadingA leading member of Oxford’s Asian community has claimed that police should not allow concerns about appearing racist prevent them from action against sexual grooming rings. The police should “do their duty and we will applaud them” said Abdoul Rouf, chairman of the local Bangladesh Welfare Association. His comments come following a review of the […]
Continue ReadingIt is not often that I am inspired to seemingly defend Catholicism’s stance on paedophilia – nor, indeed, to ostensibly offer a plea for paedophiles themselves. But this is what this is: apparently such an apologia. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier purportedly felt the same impulse recently on the Stephen Nolan show, accused by the titular 5 Live […]
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