Witness
“When I was younger my dad was very violent towards my mum, situated around alcohol. There were probably quite a few times when me and my brothers witnessed it a lot, and it was mostly when he would come home drunk. My mum endured that all the way up until I was thirteen and that’s […]…
Witness
Photography by Denise Beckwith “When I was younger my dad was very violent towards my mum, situated around alcohol. There were probably quite a few times when me and my brothers witnessed it a lot, and it was mostly when he would come home drunk. My mum endured that all the way up until I […]…
Torture
– Jolijn, Netherlands 2017 “This is part of my personal testimony that I wrote in 2016 as I have gone through some very distressing personal experiences in mental health care, particular, the forced body cavity searches between the age of 16 and 18 which had a devastating effect on my personal experience of gender and […]…
Kavita Shetty, India, 2017 Photography by Belinda Mason…
Rape
– Emanuella, Italy, 2017 “I am 33 years old. My birth mother actually died during birth and I acquired disability as a result of paediatric/midwife violence. I really like horses to help me do physical therapy. My physiotherapist, was away and the replacement didn’t let me ride the horses because it was raining. He told […]…
Deception
– Anonymous, Italy, 2017 “I am 34 years old, I have a sister and a brother, and the lady you saw over there is my mother. Unfortunately, my father passed away in 2010. For us it’s very important, because everyone else hid it under a rock and we want to speak out. We made this […]…
Deny
– M. Peace. S. Germany, 2017 “Every illness has it beginning. Like every beginning has it´s start. 4 years ago, it was in July 2013, I was writing at home, a House work, about people and how they treat each other at the working place. So at least I wanted to have a compensation. I […]…
Never give up
– Ummul Kher, India, 2017 “Allowing a person with disability to exist, to just survive without getting access to opportunities, is a cruelty to them. It is an invisible violence committed to them and it continues. After a point of time, my family in India was not very supportive about the idea of my education. […]…
Scream
– Sara Code, Germany, 2017 “My parents rented me to others, who abused me. My mother said they should stop because I was starting to talk and because I was too little, I would not know what I can tell others what was happening. My father got really angry because he said that I would […]…
Never give up
Photography by Marina George Ummul Kher, India, 2017 “Allowing a person with disability to exist, to just survive without getting access to opportunities, is a cruelty to them. It is an invisible violence committed to them and it continues. After a point of time, my family in India was not very supportive about the idea […]…