Sarah Everard

You need to turn over the stone to expose the creepie crawlies Why Cressida Dick never had a chance at reforming toxic culture To expose corruption you need light. Exposure. Transparency. Accountability. The police are regulated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct. This focuses on individual complaints. It doesn’t…

An EDDi Provocative from Dr Stephen Whitehead This EDDI Extra is powerful and provocative, deliberately so. EDDi’s raison d’être is to occupy the space between casual blogging and formal academic journals, with more editorial control than the former but less constraints than the latter. Our articles are research-informed but, free of the conventions of formal academic writing…

An invitation to Men: view the world through the eyes of women Last week my boyfriend and I went out for dinner in York. We walked back to our car, taking the stairs down from Lendal bridge to walk along the river, commenting on how it was hard to see…

Trigger warning. The trial and conviction of Wayne Couzens for the grotesque and calculated kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard has opened a can of worms of damaged trust, poorly executed advice, tone deaf communications and victim-blaming… There’s a lot to take in, isn’t there? Since the news first…

“Men are scared women will laugh at them. Women are scared men will kill them” — Margaret Atwood INTRODUCTION The passage from my diary in October 2020 below says it all: “A topic has been on my mind for some time: women’s fear of crime. I saw a post on IG from…

TW: Rxpe & Sexual Assault “Deception. Kidnap. Rxpe. Strangulation. Fire.” Sarah Everard was a victim of Male Violence. If Wayne Couzens had not “felt the urge” to attack a woman that night, she would still be alive today. …