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“My name is Tina”: a first hand account
Grooming & Coercive Control Summit 2023 Guest Contributor Grooming & Coercive Control Summit 2023 Guest Contributor

“My name is Tina”: a first hand account

My name is Tina and I am a British Indian woman. I was born and brought up in Punjab, India. During my primary education, I struggled with some reading and writing, however I absolutely loved maths. I was told by my teacher that I would need to work hard on my spelling, reading and writing. I was a very bright student and achieved really good results during my school, college and at university. My mental health wasn't great due to overthinking, stress and depression. I struggled with my weight, my internalised racism about my dark skin and worries about being different. I was not a typical Indian girl. 

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Coercion, grooming and online harms
Grooming & Coercive Control Summit 2023 Rod Landman Grooming & Coercive Control Summit 2023 Rod Landman

Coercion, grooming and online harms

Coercion and grooming have run like letters through a stick of rock in all the project work I have done for ARC England over the last 15 years. Most recently in supporting women with learning disabilities and autistic women who have experienced domestic abuse and sexual violence, and in the work I am currently involved in on online harms; but the origins go right back to the ARC Safety Net project which identified what we now call ‘mate crime’.

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Disability Hate Crime Week: Mate Crime and Neurodiversity
Cassandra Lovelock and El Dewar Cassandra Lovelock and El Dewar

Disability Hate Crime Week: Mate Crime and Neurodiversity

The 14th to the 21st of October is National Hate Crime Awareness Week. Hate crime awareness week includes awareness of disability hate crime, which differs from other forms of hate crime. The definition of disability hate crime is “any criminal offense which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s disability or perceived disability” (College of Policing, 2014).

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