We live through all these terrible and amazing life experiences.
We grow, struggle, develop, move on, work on it, evolve, and shift.
Saddening to build all of that wisdom, and then die.
I wish we had a more useful way of sharing collective knowledge without elitism & money.
Proper guts me that we have hoarded knowledge and information, and then commercialised it all. We buy it and sell it. We keep it behind paywalls and in institutions where only certain people are allowed access and only if they follow rules.
Wisdom and experience isn’t valued.
This really is at the crux of the qualitative/quantitative research contention - this belief that qualitative research and data is ‘soft’ and not worth anything in comparison to stats, that people have been led to believe are objective and infallible.
Sad isn’t it?

We learn fuck all from each other when you think about it. Too busy being directed and groomed by a handful of powerful information outlets. Wisdom and experience is either seen as meaningless or used for voyeurism by others.

No wonder we go round in circles.

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More from @DrJessTaylor

3 Dec
If I hear ‘lessons will be learned’ about the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, I might actually scream.

Been in this field since I was 19 years old and we haven’t learned a fucking thing. Still going round & round with IRs saying the same things, finding the same failings.
Every SCR or IR I have ever read comes down the the same things:

Professionals are overworked and don’t not receive good enough supervision

Training is too shallow and too basic to handle these cases

Professionals are burned out & traumatised, creating lack of empathy
Professionals hold too many cases and it has done nothing but increase for a decade

Biases and stereotypes are impacting practice everywhere and not being adequately addressed

We don’t believe children and we don’t believe women

The system is under-resourced
Read 8 tweets
25 Nov
More & more violent men and their defenders are twigging that they can use trauma, ‘ACEs’ and their own experiences of abuse to justify their violence against women & girls.

We must not let this narrative succeed or become accepted in practice, theory or legislation

#IDEVAW
We have decades of psychological theory which contests this, but it’s an easy and seductive explanation for male violence against women - and so many people accept it to be true under the whole ‘hurt people hurt people’ message.

This doesn’t stand up to basic logic though…
If it was true that victims of abuse and male violence went on to be violent criminals themselves, the majority of all violent offenders would be women and girls. As victims, they outnumber men, but men make up 97-99% of all violent offenders.
Read 4 tweets
23 Nov
I did some consultancy in the music industry. The misogyny and victim blaming blew me away. I actually came away from that work disgusted.

As soon as I started questioning the objectification & sexual assault/harassment of famous female artists shit got seriously uncomfortable.
It made me realise that sometimes I am asked to do consultancy or pieces of work as tokenism, and that I would never allow that to happen again.

I only work with people who are looking for true change, critical reflection and honest feedback about misogyny.
It changed the way I looked at all female artists - not that I had any negative views of them, but that I started seeing everything they did or said through that new lens I had experienced of the way their managers, producers and teams just saw them as temporary sex objects
Read 5 tweets
30 Oct
I think everyone needs to be paying attention to the amount of women who have been subjected to abuse and trauma suddenly being told they have ADHD and autism.

This is the next wave of pathologisation after BPD and EUPD, mark my words.
You may disagree, you might think that the huge increase in women being diagnosed with ADHD & autism (both currently described as psychiatric disorders) is a good thing, but I’m not so sure. I think it will lead to more women being oppressed & discriminated against.
It amazes me that the same people who can see that the huge increase in women being diagnosed with personality disorders after disclosing abuse is negative and detrimental, but the same with ADHD and autism is positive and progressive. They are all from the same book.
Read 5 tweets
6 Oct
Just saw yet another academic supporting ‘women’s self defence’ as a ‘solution to VAWG’ and honestly I am sick to the back teeth of hearing it.

70% of women will naturally freeze when attacked, no matter what skill or belt they have.

And what about disabled women & girls? Hmm?
It might sound like a progressive, cutting edge study to do conversation analysis interviews and funded interventions of teaching young women self defence with self reported confidence measures but when you’re being raped, groomed, abused or controlled THAT SHIT WON’T WORK
We also know from decades of research that women and girls are very likely to self blame (and be victim blamed) if they don’t fight back when being raped or abused, so this suggestion only furthers the original rape myth that ‘if you were really raped, you would fight back’
Read 4 tweets
3 Oct
We have been working with several police forces and PCCs on their misogyny issues for months now, and I can tell you that some forces are absolutely ready, and have the right people at the top, to challenge and explore their misogyny throughout the force for years to come.
In all cases, they approached us (which is great).

They all already accept their misogyny issues exist, and are impacting their staffing, and their responses to crime.

Crucially, it’s about who is in charge and who is ready for uncomfortable exploratory work.

Some are.
What I can tell you, is that in some forces, it’s easier than others. One force found out that someone in leadership was trying to address misogyny and woman blaming and called them in for a meeting to shut them up.

But other forces are way ahead.
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