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Freelance Community Development Practitioner

Vivienne Hayes MBE, Chief Executive of the national charity, Women's Resource Centre has this to say about #InLoveandAnger, the report of the #TinasHaven pilot project published tomorrow. 💖🌸🧚♀️ “I am honoured to have been invited to write this foreword. The work of all the women involved in this truly groundbreaking pilot led by the vision, human love and commitment of Dr Sue Robson is a revelation. Tina’s Haven is a celebration of what can - and indeed must - be achieved for and with women who, as a result of extensive male violence and what I must name as state violence, are vilified and punished in the cruelest of ways, by the enforced removal of their children. In a time when too much provision for women has become industrialised and driven by state- determined frameworks often unfit for purpose, this pilot project provides hope and a re-positioning of how to actually meet the needs of the women involved. The interweaving of a critical theoretical approach for social transformation based upon the Black Feminist work of Professor Patricia Hill Collins, and a clear and deliberate feminist practice delivers the change we desperately need to see in how women are supported and empowered. This is how our wider women’s sector should be operating. The success of Tina’s Haven is a result of it being located in a clear analysis of structural inequality and the simultaneous actions necessary to begin to address this, which requires a women-only multi layered, holistic design. I hope this wonderful, joyous, and liberating model of work will give food for thought to all those who wish to see women’s rights achieved. Tina’s Haven should be used as a blueprint by service providers; because, in the words of Audre Lorde: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.””

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