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The Unthinkable: In Conversation with EIDA x Vodafone Foundation
Domestic abuse already affects your organisation, and employers hold the power to change outcomes like mine.
Nov 25, 2025 • David Challen
America’s Tempo of Violence: The Charlie Kirk Killing
A reckoning with martyrdom, hypocrisy, and America’s politics of grief in an age of violence.
Sep 14, 2025 • David Challen
The Hijacking of Women’s Safety
An exploration of how women’s safety became the far right’s most powerful weapon
Aug 31, 2025 • David Challen
Father’s Day never meant much to me… but why?
You see, I almost instinctively knew from an early age he’d bore of me, lose interest altogether.
Jun 15, 2025 • David Challen
How Do You Survive The Unthinkable? You Write It.
A memoir born not from choice, but from the need to survive - to reclaim a childhood lost to silence, and a mother who tried to shield me from it.
Jun 5, 2025 • David Challen
Stuart Hogg: The Costs of Leniency towards Coercive Control
This week deals yet another dangerous green light to perpetrators of domestic abuse and a devastating blow to survivors seeking justice.
Jan 12, 2025 • David Challen
Lily Phillips’ 100-Man Challenge: Who’s to Blame?
A new YouTube documentary capturing Lily’s attempt to sleep with 100 men in 24 hours spotlights her as the protagonist, but the real story lies with the…
Dec 11, 2024 • David Challen
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