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Shelley Trower

@shelleytrower.bsky.social
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Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall. & see e.g. linktr.ee/shelleytrower

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Ross Dickinson @rossdickinson-ed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I am SO thrilled that ALL THE LIVES SHE LIVED by the brilliant Nathalie Abi-Ezzi will be out in a fortnight. I can't wait for you all to meet Doris. @thebooksocial.bsky.social
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Rereading #JudithHerman's Truth & Repair & this line feels especially apt: “tyrants and their apologists in autocratic regimes lie constantly, not so much to deny their crimes (although that is one reason) as to assert that reality is whatever the tyrant says it is.” #abusesurvivors #Trump
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
glad to be a speaker for this panel event about #boundaries - a topic I have LOTS of thoughts & feelings about! with @theflyingchild.bsky.social & Survivors' Voices www.theflyingchild.com/event-details/boundaries-or-barbed-wire-a-dangerous-tool #counselling #therapy #retraumatisation
theflyingchild.com
Boundaries or Barbed Wire - a dangerous tool? | The Flying Child
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
#heliumfishdecidingwhatbookstoread
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
glad to be a speaker for this panel event about #boundaries - a topic I have LOTS of thoughts & feelings about! with @theflyingchild.bsky.social & Survivors' Voices www.theflyingchild.com/event-details/boundaries-or-barbed-wire-a-dangerous-tool #counselling #therapy #retraumatisation
theflyingchild.com
Boundaries or Barbed Wire - a dangerous tool? | The Flying Child
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Variable damp September dawns (none blue sky) #lostwithiel
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Looking forward to Helen Scales's ocean talk, & also to joining @petermcallister.bsky.social & other contributors to *Cornwall In Short* at North Cornwall Book Festival in just over a week. 10-11am 27 Sept - Free! Foxgloves!
endelienta.org.uk
NCBF 2025: Cream of Cornish - Endelienta Arts
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
evading the usual back-to-school blues with news of this new author tour in SW libraries to kick off in Jan 2026 - excited to start planning...
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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
More than 100 women's rights groups have warned that "racist" attempts to link sexual violence with immigration are putting victims at increased risk. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warning
In a letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge called on ministers to stand up to the 'danger...
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Beetroot and roses
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
solstice sea swim at Lansallos
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Bluebells bluebells bluebells
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
pleased to be embarking on a new role as Research Community Facilitator for Survivors' Voices, alongside my writing and library work with @swrls.bsky.social
survivorsvoices.org
Survivors Voices : Turning pain into power
Survivors Voices is a survivor-led organisation that turns the pain of abuse into power to improve responses to trauma, through peer support, research, education and activism.
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
at this midway point of a busy week (currently thinking about reading on the platform at Reading) I've another urge to share my life in categories
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
So many lives lost, directly and indirectly - most entirely unreported - over decades... not sure anything much is changing. I find the repeated language of 'accuser' frustrating too, as though nothing was proven. Reality is doubted again and again and again.
bbc.co.uk
Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies by suicide
Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to the Duke of York when she was 17, which he has strenuously denied.
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
next week my things to do include a guest lecture for 'Reading Communities' module at @bathspauni.bsky.social, a 2-day @recovery-histories.bsky.social event at Birkbeck (on an advisory grp), then part of a panel @tatestives.bsky.social for the #ithelcolquhoun conference :-)
tate.org.uk
Ithell Colquhoun: The spaces between | Tate St Ives
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
glad to put this job on the SWRLS website before signing off for the long weekend 📚 would love to see such jobs in every library everywhere forever #libraries #climateaction
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It's been a quiet couple of months so good to hear that my 2nd novel ms (Star) made this (long) longlist!
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist
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Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Great to hear from @shelleytrower.bsky.social recently. It reminded me of the beautiful and insightful Living Libraries project she lead in 2019/20. I was lucky enough to be involved in a small way and it is still a wonderful window into libraries as seen by the people working in and using them.
livinglibraries.uk
Living Libraries
An AHRC-funded oral history of five UK public libraries, in the words of people who use, work in and run them.
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
some recent reading, slightly buried among reflections on Cornwall, music and dancing, memory and life stories, and my own books, and recent birthday, in new blog post #Kernow #celticmusic #reading #lifestories #lifewriting #memory #bodykeepsthescore #cornishliterature
shelleytrower.wixsite.com
A reading diary #3 (or, rather, a few quick thoughts about music with a spot of reading)
When I was 13, a friend whose family was part of a music and dance group called Cam Kernewek invited me along to a ceilidh. I don’t remember the first, but that very shy teenager went back for more, a...
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Our beautiful anthology Cornwall in Short is on sale shorturl.at/eFigw featuring brilliant work by @timhannigan.bsky.social @emmatimpany.bsky.social @amarkle.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social @stasiawrites.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @kstansfield.bsky.social
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The Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I relate to this. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation was officially disbanded in 2019. The previous, widespread media coverage of FMS had a highly destructive impact on the lives of many survivors, myself included. #CSAsurvivorSky #CSA
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Also book out: Sound Writing
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Back to school Covid on trees Sun beams
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