@lheise1.bsky.social
Researcher and practitioner working to reduce violence against women and children. Also posting on social justice, economic inequality and reclaiming power from corporate interests.
Risk factors for IPV in the Caribbean reproduce the classic pattern see elsewhere: the importance of early childhood exposure to violence, harmful alcohol use, and poverty as drivers of violence as well as gender inequality.
03.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New data on IPV from 5 Caribbean countries finds once again how few abused women reach out to formal services. We must train mothers and friends—the “first responders” how to support women appropriately. @prevention-collaborative.org
03.06.2025 21:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Just terrifying how much more of this there is going to be
Can't live near mountains, can't live near coasts, can't live near forests, can't live near rivers - where's everyone going to live?
Important article demanding that the UK government does not abandon it historic leadership role supporting gender equality, as threatened by the Foreign Minister
26.05.2025 06:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews.com
29.04.2025 06:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
The slippery slope toward USG/DOGE interference with independent non-profits has begun. We must stay vigilant.
19.03.2025 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Important editorial by @jocalynclark.bsky.social in this month's BMJ. She notes: "On 8 March, international women’s day,the NewYork Times reported that even the word “women” was being erased by US policies..."
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