women’s safety consultant + violence against women and girls advisor | Research Associate Uni of Portsmouth | PhD student the role of night time economy + VAWG
Mar 25, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
🧵The issue with “bystander” effect
Just lately, it feels as though every initiative violence against women centres its intervention with active bystander training.
Got an issue with racism? Bystander training.
Got an issue with sexual harassment? Bystander training.
Don’t get me wrong - active bystander training has its place. I cover it briefly in my training too.
It usually focuses on arming individuals with the tools to step in + disrupt situations with a range of resources e.g. the “4 Ds” - “direct”, “distract”, “delay” and “delegate”
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We need to stop talking about and targeting women’s safety in isolation. Male violence is endemic; it is embedded in our society, it pervades every space: public, private and online. And it should be considered ALL the time not just as a reactionary tactic when an incident occurs
🌃 City + town planning + design - women’s safety
🏞️ Parks and outside spaces - women’s safety
🗄️ Workplace - women’s safety
🖥️ Online - women’s safety
🏡 At home - women’s safety
