Tashmia Owen FRSA

My 2016. A year ago tonight I stood behind my husband as he ran one of the largest playgrounds in London, towering over the city.

My contribution to family events is to make the children question patriarchy and religion.

Still thinking about the man who fell from a cruise ship and survived 9 hours treading water… because of how unseasonably warm our oceans are

So the wife of the British Prime Minister can just fuck off out at night on her own for clandestine meetings and sit in a greasy spoon with an assassin and no one notices 😂😂 #BlackDoves

The way Carrie killed Chris before she could even finish saying “I’m sorry” was genuinely disturbing. No second chances, no forgiveness. 💀 But after all the humiliation and cruelty Chris put her through, was Carrie wrong for refusing to show mercy? #Carrie

Today I learned that the folding chair was invented by a Black American…which means the Montgomery Brawl was DEEPLY ancestral

If I was going to invent a story of rape to discredit a man it wouldn't be one in which I went to his house, had consensual sex, and then said no and he raped me. Because as woman E said at the time "they won't believe me, I went to his house". Thankfully the jury did.

Something that’s emerged from the Brand and Walliams stories over the last few weeks is the use of lawfare and NDAs to protect predatory behaviour. Do we need to look at the lawyers who are deliberately protecting wrong doing for those who can afford it?

Lucy B offering to pay the fees/ costs for victim to challenge an NDA is particularly powerful. Knowing that support is there removes one of the most terrifying aspects currently used to silence

The most disturbing thing about the past few days is discovering just how many people share the opinion: "Well, if she consented to a threesome with Russell Brand, she deserved to be anally raped by him a few days later."

If I ruled the world anyone claiming to have been cancelled would be required to provide proof they were ever scheduled in the first place.

I DON’T CARE if it happened 2 years ago or 20. If you raped someone, you’re a RAPIST. Time doesn’t erase what you did. And a survivor speaking up years later doesn’t make their trauma any less real.

A reminder that Lewisham violent crimes unit told me that the majority of the women that walked through their doors were liars.

Some of y’all did not read encyclopedias for fun when you were a child, and it shows

He got 9 years for that. The remaining time is for kissing someone 20 years ago and groping a woman's breasts who then went to the bathroom with him. The final one was for resting his head in someone's lap at work. She claims he breathed on her.

Ten years and six months. Russell Brand just learned the hard way that you cannot podcast your way out of a rape conviction. For the last three years, he hid behind a sudden spiritual awakening, alternative media conspiracies, and millions of online followers to paint himself as a persecuted martyr. He actively used his audience as a human shield to smear the women he destroyed. 10 minutes ago, a British judge cut straight through the grift and sent him down to the cells for a decade. You can manipulate algorithms, buy off entourages, and build an entire alternative media empire to hide your past. But when the courtroom doors lock, the internet guru act is completely dead. He is exactly what those six brave women always said he was: a manipulative predator who is finally going to spend the next ten years in a cage.

Russell Brand sentenced to 10.5 years and described by the judge as being a ‘calculated sexual predator’. From remarks made within the sentencing, there are associates of Brand who should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Russell brand sentenced to ten years and six months by the judge

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault offences.