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(TW) Domestic abuse support community anyone? (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by schmorpel to c/meta

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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.

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[–] poVoq 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] schmorpel 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.