women's trauma is not a game
Content warning: the following piece contains references to domestic abuse, sexual assault and rape. I am tired of women being played as political pawns in some nightmarish game. A game where you only support survivors of sexual assault when it suits your agenda or set of beliefs. It has been an exhausting eighteen months. A man and a woman have a huge argument in their flat. The words "Get off me'' are screamed. A neighbour calls the police. It turns out it's one of the Conservative candidates for prime minister Boris Johnson and his then girlfriend Carrie Symonds. The concerned neighbour then turns into a Labour political activist determined to ruin the career of Boris. Over half of all women who are killed in the UK die by the hands of their partners or ex partners. A group of nine women go to the police after they all experienced various levels of sexual assault. They didn't go to the police for years as they didn't want to jeopardize their work