Serenity Rose is heading a London-based survivor-led campaign, together with The Public Interest Law Centre, aimed at receiving justice, social change and acknowledgement of the harms done to women previously denied access to safety when applying for housing assistance after fleeing abuse and violence against women & girls. After the landmark amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill, women now have a legislative right to help but historical systemic failures to safeguard often hold lifelong repercussions, impacting survivors in ways which have largely been unseen and unheard. Serenity joins FiLiA’s Sadia Hameed to discuss her experiences as a survivor, the problems in our systems of misogyny and repeated discrimination against women and girls. Serenity hopes this campaign will create a collective voice of survivors who have previously been silenced, systemically, who basically say the truth of “this is what has been happening to us for all these years. She argues there needs to be a shift socially, and a recognition of that… we need to stand together and very very strongly state: “this was wrong and we want something done about it.”
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If you feel you have been wrongly treated by London councils when you most needed help with accessing safe housing please get in touch with Serenity or Helen and Isabella from the Public Interest Law Centre who will provide you with an emphatic ear, guidance and a community of women working towards transcendence of what was wrongly done to us at our most vulnerable; one voice alone is often ignored, many voices together speak truth into change!
