Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy? Beyond Talk: Moving to Action & Transformation

THIS IS A LIVE ZOOM EVENT .

Following our impactful Parliamentary launch of the Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy? report in November 2024, we are hosting a second, significant online event to continue the conversation - bringing new insights, urgent questions, and practical responses to the forefront.

*A reminder of the report and research to date, can be found below

The event, in short ...

This follow-up event sits at the centre of Phase 2 of our research and community engagement: continuing to centre the lived experiences of Black and minoritised survivors navigating the intersection of mental health, trauma, and systemic violence.

This session will bring together researchers, frontline experts, survivor-activists, and community advocates to reflect on the themes that have emerged since the initial launch and to consider how we continue to hold space for rage, resistance and repair.

We will be launching new briefings, updated insights, and taking an uncompromising look at what meaningful structural change truly demands. After surfacing the truth in our original report and phase 1 of our research and efforts; this event moves us past discussion - into accountability and action.

With an eye on the intersections of violence, trauma, mental health, and racial injustice, we’ll be directing our focus towards those with power to act - commissioners, policymakers, change-makers, funders - while continuing to centre the leadership, analysis, and truths of those working at the sharpest edges of this work, including our specialist ‘by and for’ VAWG organisations and survivor activists with lived experiences - who are at the centre of ‘Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy?’ report, and it’s supporting Survivors’ Charter.

This event is being supported by the University of Warwick Policy Hub.

We invite you to join us online via Zoom.

🗓️ EVENT DETAILS:

• Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025
• Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm (GMT)
• Location: Online (Zoom)
• Tickets: Free, but registration is essential to receive access
  

⚠️ Please note: This is a closed event for commissioners, funders, policymakers, and specialist frontline services. You must register via Eventbrite to access the event. Your email will be used to verify attendance and send joining instructions.

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➡️ Why attend this event?

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Hear directly from survivor-activists, researchers and movement leaders
• Engage with brand-new briefings at the intersections of violence, trauma, mental health and racial injustice
• Join an open, honest conversation on what’s shifted since November - and what hasn’t
• Contribute to shaping the next steps forward through policy, practice, and funding
  
  

ℹ️ What to expect:

• Key findings and recommendations from three new briefing papers
• Conversations bridging activism, research, policy and funding
• Creative contributions from survivors and artists
• Reflections, asks, and provocations from survivor-advocate contributors
• Open conversation about what’s happened - or not - since the report launch
• Response space for commissioners and decision-makers
• Facilitated Q&A and discussion
  
  

🔊 Speakers and Contributors:

• Sumanta Roy, Head of Research and Development, Imkaan
• Professor Ravi Thiara, Centre for the Study of Safety and Wellbeing, University of Warwick
• Akima Thomas OBE, Clinical Director, Women and Girls Network
• Survivor Activist Contributors, sharing their reflections, demands and analysis
• Facilitated discussion/Q&A with audience input
  
  

🤎 Accessibility:

• Live captioning will be provider
• BSL interpreters will be present
• Cameras and mics are optional
• Resources will be shared during and after the event
  
  If you have additional access needs, please tell us via the signup form or email kiesha@imkaan.org.uk

🎟️ Sign up to reserve your ticket

Join us online to support this urgent, necessary conversation - and to ensure the voices of Black and minoritised survivors remain central to the systems meant to protect them.

We look forward to welcoming you virtually!

- Imkaan

👩🏽‍💻 A reminder of the research

In November 2024, Imkaan, in collaboration with Women and Girls Network (WGN) and Prof. Ravi Thiara of University of Warwick, released Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy? - a landmark report exposing the entrenched violence, trauma and and systemic neglect Black and minoritised female victims of VAWG are facing, in the UK; and offering clear direction for change. Rooted in lived experience and expert insight, it challenged complacency and pushed for urgent action – calling out the cost of inaction.

This follow-up event sits at the centre of Phase 2 of our research - focusing on the urgency of a move past discussion - into accountability and action.

See you, online for this important event.