The Administration of Survival
The Administration of Survival. Something strange happens when someone else does something wrong, and you are the one left to deal with the consequences. Whether you're challenging sexual harassment or discrimination at work, whistleblowing on something you know isn't right, dealing with racism or Islamophobia, trying to [...]
Where Did The Vivacious Woman Go?
Where Did The Vivacious Women Go? And can we find our way back to ourselves without having to become the women we were before? There was a time when people would tell me that if I could bottle my energy, I would make billions. They weren't wrong. [...]
The Restoration Gap
The Restoration Gap Why do we instinctively restore male sexual function, yet teach women to live with the consequences of sexual violence? One of the clearest ways to understand what a society truly values is not by listening to what it says, but by observing where it [...]
The Value Gap
The Value Gap What trauma reveals about who we truly value. When I was sailing around the world, people wanted to know me. Some wanted to follow the journey. Others wanted to collaborate. Some wanted to share the adventure from a safe distance, and others spoke about [...]
The Recovery Gap
Why access to trauma treatment still depends on who you are, not what happened to you. One of the questions that has occupied my thinking over recent years is, “Why do some survivors of trauma appear to have more support and a clearer path towards recovery than [...]
The Battlefield Within
Why do we expect women to recover from trauma faster than soldiers? Most people writing about trauma are doing just that… writing about trauma. They are analysing research papers, discussing policy failures, reviewing statistics or examining systems from a position of relative distance. Their work is important, [...]
The Quiet Violence of Organisational Betrayal
The Quiet Violence of Organisational Betrayal There is a moment when many victims of trauma eventually come to recognise long after the original event itself. It is the moment you realise the harm was only the beginning. This moment happens in the silence, the distance from friends [...]
No One Prepares the Stage to Be Raped
Why Is Sexual Violence Still Judged Through Impossible Standards of Evidence? No one leaves the house expecting they will later need evidence that they were violated. Nor do they anticipate that their body may become the crime scene of sexual violence while their mind fragments under fear, [...]
The Judicial Architecture of Misunderstanding in Sexual Violence Cases
The Legal System's Failure to Understand Sexual Violence The legal system remains fundamentally unequipped to understand sexual violence in the form it manifests within the victims of trauma. This isn’t because the system lacks intelligence or experience, but because it was built inside a framework which was [...]