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During my PhD I researched the history of laws about the age of consent. I read a line in a 1978 academic article discussing the Maiden Tribute, a series of scandalous 19th century newspaper articles. It mentioned Mrs Mary Jeffries: ‘Her clients, it was said, included some of the men who had for years opposed…
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the…
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https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow I’m really proud to say that our film ‘Flow’ has been endorsed by the Royal College of Nursing! The endorsement approval says: ‘The resource has good professional content and gives some real insight into the trauma which survivors of abuse experience. It is a very powerful portrayal of the turmoil that many survivors of…
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Woohoo! Our article about the making of the film ‘Flow’ is now online. It’s open access so anyone can read it and watch the film. It’s co-authored with Scarlett de Courcier, Chris Godwin, Jodie Hannis, Zillah Turner, Julie Lloyd and Susan Macklam. We’re SO proud of the film and all it has achieved. Check it…
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‘Flow and Change’ is an event organised as part of the Arts for the Future Festival, hosted by the UN Civil Society Arts & Culture ImPACT Coalition and Working Group. This event, hosted by @ShIVAR_Network, will include a screening of ‘Flow’ a narrative film about the barriers to adults disclosing childhood sexual abuse, discussion of the research behind it, process…
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I read this article today and it’s made me so sad and angry. The book I’m writing is about child trafficking in the late 19th century and NOTHING has changed. The recruitment techniques, debt bondage to keep them working…NOTHING has changed. Why not? Victim blaming fuelled by class and/or racism or…whatever enables people to think…
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I’m taking part in the ‘Reels and Rhymes’ festival, where films inspire poetry. Sign up and join us. Final event is on World Poetry Day on the 21st March. https://www.lisarussellfilms.com/reelsandrhymes
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Thank to The University of Sheffield my film ‘Flow’ about adults disclosing childhood sexual abuse #CSA is now available with subtitles in multiple languages here: https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow. The picture above shows Maasai subtitles. Languages available are: Albanian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, Filipino/Tagalog, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Maasai, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Urdu, Uzbek. If you…
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Really REALLY happy to share that our film ‘Flow,’ about the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, has been selected for the prestigious Women Deliver Conference and Arts & Film Festival in Rwanda. We’ll be (virtually) there at the screening and also listening to the amazing speakers including Stacey Abrams, Malala Yousafzai and former New Zealand…
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I’ve been busy with fieldwork in the last month or so, either that or being on strike (a long story!). I’m working as a researcher on a Nuffield funded project looking at domestic violence and child protection. You can read a blog about it here. Some good news about the film Flow. I’ve been awarded…
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Modern & Historical Research about Child Sexual Abuse 