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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 3h

If you haven’t yet voted in the Society of Authors elections, don’t forget to post your vote this week!!!

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 25d

I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2h

“We need to be safe in our
homes
As much as on our streets"

Sam Beckinsale
⁩ ⁦⁦
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Yes we are
not Mad,
not Bad
not Psychotic

#CoerciveControl #DARVO #DVAM2025

The FemCast Podcast
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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2h

So we are off swimming then

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2h

Support for student survivors in the transition from school to university
Understanding what abuse does to the brain & its impact on Learning

Protecting Futures

#DVAM2025 #Bullying #CSA #StudentSupport #Universities
#ProtectiveParents

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 3h

I do enjoy thinking about your quotes
Have a lovely day Linda

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 5h

It looks like a birthday cake
But really it’s a burning forest
And who lit the match that set the fire alight?

That’s the challenge posed by #DARVO in institutional #integrity

“You wouldn’t go into a burning building?”

Great listen ⁦on The Gaslit Brain @TheFemCast
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youtu.be/K2W55sO5MlY?...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 6h

'We RISE
We ROAR
We REWRITE the narrative'

The continuum of Control
A tactic of #coercivecontrol deployed by individuals & institutions is #DARVO

What are implications for institutional reform from #FamilyJustice to #InstitutionalTransparency in all sectors?

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#darvo #institutionalcourage #familycourt #domesticabusecommissioner #darvo #darvo #darvo #darvo #nda #darvo #coercivecontrol #familyjustice #darvo #darvo #integrity #darvo | Clare Lavery

#DARVO is at the heart of understanding #InstitutionalCourage How it works How it fails How it harms It is a common tactic used in #FamilyCourt by abusers, adding to the complexity of handling case...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 18h

Spotlight on the impacts of violence in the home #FamilyCourts @commissionerda.bsky.social
⁩concerns in survivor case handling

I see impact in education where survivors & children try to rebuild futures ⁦⁦
@childrenscomm.bsky.social
⁦@theflyingchild.bsky.social

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#csa #dvam2025 #universities #survivordrivensolutions #he #studentsupport #csa #cse #learningneeds #traumainformededucation | Clare Lavery

Trauma informed practice at all stages & levels in the university journeys of survivors is crucial ⭐️From application through to degrees & beyond ⭐️When needing to take breaks from st...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 18h

#SiamoArrivatiQui

At what point do we celebrate our planet?
Our Land?
Our Trees?
If all our candles set it
alight?

I see Fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥
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‘Happy Birthday 2025’- Murmure
Creative Duo from Caen
A birthday cake becomes a raging forest fire

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

#SiamoArrivatiQui

L'amore non resta lì come una pietra
deve essere fatto
come il pane
rifatto ogni volta
come nuovo

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

A good read from @lindaberman05.bsky.social
The richness that regrets bring
in their teaching & their nuance
Learning from Experience

waysofthinking.co.uk/2025/10/14/5...

5+ Powerful Quotations On Regret You Actually Won’t Regret Reading. By Dr Linda Berman

Quote 1 Christian Krohg. The Day After, Self-Portrait (1883) Wikimedia Commons. “I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t …

waysofthinking.co.uk

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent podcast with Lyndsey Stonebridge talking about her book 'We are free to change the world' on Hannah Arendt

Arendt valued 'Lived Experience'
She lived between countries
She lived between cultures
She lived between histories
How do we make meanings?
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Bookbound with Lyndsey Stonebridge 29th February 2024

Journalist Paul O'Doherty interviews authors on the release of their new books.

www.mixcloud.com

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

“Fearlessness is what love seeks”

Hannah Arendt (Born on this day)

www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/01/t...

The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”

www.themarginalian.org

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

“One has to live & think in the open
and not in one’s own little shell
no matter how comfortably furnished it is”

Hannah Arendt (Born on this day)

Step outside your comfort zone

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

The tangled web of hearts & realities
The unsaid & unspeakable
The Faith & the Trust

How to resist binge watching #RiotWomen grasping the nettle?
I succumbed

All set in the gorgeous countryside around Hebden Bridge

Some with hard topics without flinching #DVAM #CSA

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

#SiamoArrivatiQui

‘Probabilmente chiara come il sole
La mia tendenza alla continuità
Contraria a tutte le tue aspettative
Sto qua
Tu vuoi una rosa che non abbia spine
Ma non è questa la normalità
Ci si innamora di una imperfezione’

Stupendo fino a Qui
youtu.be/g-JjblxScTw?...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

Watch this today on Channel 4 UK

This is a pattern in repeat
Across the majority of countries
This is a Global Issue
At the root of Violence in homes is patriarchy & misogyny
At the root of Legal systems is a misogynistic narrative

Borderless

#DVAM #CoerciveControl
#LanguageMatters #CSA

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

The Child’s Voice
The Child’s Words
The Translated Child
The Mistranslated Child

Every word counts
#LanguageMatters

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 22h

“The horrors that domestic abuse can bring on children
are unspeakable”

Baroness Levitt KC

#DVAM #VAWC #CSA
#LanguageMatters until there are No Words to name it

‘Unspeakable’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Domestic abuse commissioner criticises antiquated views in family court hearings

Research found evidence of abuse within 73% of hearings and in 87% of the case files they reviewed.

www.independent.co.uk

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 22h

Domestic abuse commissioner criticises antiquated views in family court hearings | The Independent

He said
She said
Misogyny said

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Domestic abuse commissioner criticises antiquated views in family court hearings

Research found evidence of abuse within 73% of hearings and in 87% of the case files they reviewed.

www.independent.co.uk

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 22h

Spotlight on #Misogyny knitted into the narratives of Law

#LanguageMatters #Justice #Truth

He said …
She said…

But what is really ‘Fact’?
What is just impression?
Or projection?
Or supposition?
In Argumentation

Changing the grammar of Violence The Pragmatics of Law

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 22h

There’s a unique quality in Autumn
of Light as dusk approaches
Two deer cross my path
People foraging to make their sloe gin
A sense of peace descending with the faint murmur of city on the edges
I’m thinking of ties
To Landscape
To people
How we carve out presence
Wherever planted

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

The Hebden Bridge I know was always a place for Riot Women

As Sally Wainwright brings the West Yorkshire town back to our screens, a fellow local writer returns home and reflects on how it’s changed since she was a child

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

We begin this week with a poem that launched the Irish Feminist Judgement Project
And good news that @drproudman.bsky.social travelled to the Northern Irish bar to discuss how the Misogynistic system judges women & their children.

A Prayer to St Bridget by Sarah Clancy
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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

How aware we are of our peaceful corner of the world in nature

Ailleurs il y a des vitraux incendiés
Et des villes brisées
Mais ici c'est encore la terre libre
Que demander de plus
Que demander de plus

Bleu de la nuit-Zaz
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Over Durham fields at dusk