Recently, I guess also because climate, health, financial crisis etc. make people more edgy and anxious, I have been witnessing an increase in domestic abuse in real life.
I believe there is a clear and urgent need for support and as I believe there cannot possibly be enough open doors for victims I would like to offer this support here on slrpnk as well and create a group for it.
Thought I’d ask before as I don’t want to spam slrpnk with more groups and/or trigger people who might not consider this to be the right space for it. Relationship Anarchy could be a place for this as well, but I’d rather want to have a dedicated safe space where people can ask ‘Am I actually in an abusive relationship?’ and where they can find materials to help them decide what to do.
And of course, I would love to work together with others on this. I have started to write down some stuff but I really think it would be best to have different voices on this.
Also interesting from a [*]-punk perspective: the interweaving of abuse in personal life and abuse in society. Recognizing the abuse in my personal life was key in understanding similar processes in society.
While it is certainly not a problem exclusive to women, it seems like !twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net is already filling that niche to some extend.
I wont stop you from creating such a new community, but I am a bit doubtful that it will see much uptake.
I guess if you don’t stop me I’ll just try ;-) (If the number of communities turns into a problem at any point please do stop me!) A lot of the typical abuse-inducing power imbalances in relationships happen to be a man-woman thing but it’s thanks to how society is currently set up, not because women cannot be abusers.
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