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Renee Chopping

@renee_chopping

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Program director working with survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation. Activist and advocate @collective.shout for a world free of sexploitation

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Online abuse is being minimised - but survivors are living with the trauma.

"When I saw the images of myself undressed on X, I felt sick. There was an instant sense of anxiety. I wanted to protest, but part of me also felt humiliated and ashamed, and reluctant to draw further attention to it..."

Originally published in the Herald Sun. Collective Shout campaigner @renee_chopping centres the voices of women living with technology-facilitated abuse and calls for it to be recognised - and addressed - as serious sexual harm.

Comment SURVIVOR below and we’ll DM you the link to read more. by @renee_chopping

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“As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy… are “Notice that” and “What happens next?” Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.” - Bessel A. van der Kolk

Trauma rehabilitation training sessions, hanging out with my translator and right hand woman, Pang, and food… so much good food. Things I miss about living in Thailand.

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#trauma #traumarecovery #traumarehabilitation #traumainformed #resilience #growth #posttraumaticgrowth #besselvanderkolk #quotes by @renee_chopping

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4 years ago

From Instagram to s*x trafficking: How boys are being radicalised, girls are being exploited - and Big Tech is looking the other way.

→ Collective Shout campaigner @renee_chopping joins @themohuashow to connect the dots between social media, s*xualisation, misogyny and human trafficking - and why the fight to protect kids starts now.

Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel!

#CollectiveShout #EndExploitation #Instagram #Netflix #BigTech #Trafficking #Online #Harm by @renee_chopping

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a year ago

Every girl deserves the right to childhood.

A childhood where she can grow, learn and discover who she is without being s*xualised, exploited or exposed to harmful s*xual content.

And together, we’re helping make that childhood safer.

YOU have stood with us as we pushed for changes that will make a real difference for girls growing up in Australia:

→ Age assurance requirements to help protect children from early exposure to p*rnography.

→ A minimum age of 16 for social media accounts, helping protect younger girls from environments where they can be exposed to s*xualised content and material promoting or normalising body hatred, eating disorders and self-harm.

These changes came after years of advocacy from organisations, experts, survivors and ordinary Australians refusing to accept that children should simply learn to navigate adult harms.

YOU have been part of that push.

There is much more to do. But this International Day of the Girl, we’re also taking stock of what we’ve already helped change - and what those changes can mean for the girls growing up behind us.

Help us keep going!

Support our International Day of the Girl campaign via the link in our bio. by @renee_chopping

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Would you know if someone’s glasses were filming you?

Camera-equipped smart glasses are becoming increasingly common - and so are concerns about how they’re being used.

Researchers have documented men using them to covertly film women in everyday settings. Women have discovered footage of themselves online only after the fact. And councils, schools, courts and other institutions are now grappling with what this technology means for privacy and consent.

At the same time, smart glasses can have genuinely valuable uses, particularly for people who are blind or have low vision.

So where should the line be drawn?

Our latest article looks at the benefits, the risks, how smart glasses are actually being used - and whether our laws and safeguards are keeping up.

👉🏻 Comment anything below and we'll DM you the link to the full article.

💬 We want to hear from you: Would you feel comfortable with someone wearing camera-equipped smart glasses around you? What restrictions, if any, do you think should apply? by @renee_chopping

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18 days ago

Objecting to s*xualisation, not s*xuality: Campaigns Manager @itscaitlinroper explains what s*xualisation is and how it undermines healthy s*xuality by @renee_chopping

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24 days ago

Collective Shout campaigner @renee_chopping recently joined XRAY FM in Portland, Oregon, for a conversation about women’s safety and preventing s*xual violence.

We can teach women every warning sign and precaution in the book. But prevention cannot keep placing the burden on women to anticipate what dangerous men might do.

We need to ask what the men around perpetrators are seeing, laughing along with and ignoring.

Male violence against women is a men's issue. by @renee_chopping

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What are you and the kids getting up to these school holidays? ☀️

Drop a comment below and we’ll DM you a link to our 'Keeping Kids Safe Online' guide - packed with practical tips and resources for parents and carers. by @renee_chopping

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“Breast cancer is not fun or cute”: Will @sydneysockproject listen to breast cancer survivors?

Last month we shared the good news that The Alfred Foundation had discontinued its partnership with the Sydney Sock Project over its objectifying boob merchandise for breast cancer.

We had previously written to the foundation expressing concerns that the products, which were emblazoned with disembodied pairs of women’s breasts, reduced women to their breasts and trivialised the disease by reinforcing s*xist and unhelpful stereotypes.

This week, the Sydney Sock Project – who produce the boob merchandise – posted a screenshot of our blog in a reel on their social media platforms asking supporters if they “had the right” to produce products that are a “little on the edge” to raise funds. (We’d argue that using women’s breasts to sell a product is old, tired, and done to death, rather than ‘edgy’.)

The company appears to be seeking reassurance from their social media followers for their continued production of boob products, regardless of how survivors feel about it.

Predictably, many of the company’s supporters responded in the comments that they were “not offended” by the products. But objections to the objectification of women and reducing women to s*xualised body parts are not on the basis that it might “offend” people, but the documented harm to women - and in this case, causing further distress to survivors of breast cancer - none of which is mitigated by a donation.

Some commenters, including breast cancer survivors, expressed how the product did harm (see images).

While the Alfred Foundation has carefully considered the harm to women experiencing breast cancer from the products and discontinued the partnership with the Sydney Sock Project as a result, so far there is no indication the Sydney Sock Project has any plans to modify their designs.

If the Sydney Sock Project is genuinely motivated by a desire to support women experiencing breast cancer, rather than their own profits, we hope they will listen to women’s expressed concerns and change their designs. by @renee_chopping

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Five Sydney Swans players were suspended following an investigation into an alleged s*xual assault at the Pullman Hotel in Melbourne last month.

The players reportedly hired women from an adult entertainment agency and brought them back to their room.

A report on the strip club industry in Victoria by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia (CATWA) found that it was common for male customers to abuse, degrade and perpetrate violence against the women.

“[W]omen in strip clubs frequently reported being ‘spat on’ and ‘sprayed with beer’, they report having cigarettes flicked at them as well as trash, condoms, golf balls and even dead animals. Men reportedly ‘pull...women’s hair’, ‘yank...them by the arms and ankles, rip... their costumes and attempt...to pull their clothes off’. Women are ‘bitten, licked, slapped, punched, and pinched’ whilst male buyers attempt to penetrate them v*ginally and an*lly with ‘fingers, dollar bills, and bottles’…”

One researcher noted that “100 per cent of strippers she interviewed reported being abused within the clubs”.

Comment 'strip clubs' and we'll send you a copy of the report. by @renee_chopping

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2 months ago

“Show women and girls as whole people in natural poses”: Collective Shout campaigner @renee_chopping on Ghanda clothing sexualising young women

Comment 'ghanda' and we'll DM you the link to take action! by @renee_chopping

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“I no longer felt safe in my own community”: @renee_chopping speech at Parliament House this month.

Comment 'report' and we'll DM you the link to the reports on online hate we launched at Parliament House by @renee_chopping

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