Trina Dawes
Bio
Journlaist and radio presnter, podcast host - Passionate about social justice, feminism, family issues, culture, and music opinions and reviews.
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Stories (18/0)
What is it like to move to the UK not speaking English as a child.
Throughout the world, many people pick up and leave, bringing their children with them to another country where they do not speak the language. In which the children who are making these life-changing journeys in a crucial time in their school years.
By Trina Dawes3 years ago in Education
The BLM movement should not be a faze
Has social media and society woken to the injustice faced by black people who become statistics of police brutality? The Edward Colston statue was taken down and replaced with the protestor Jen Reid after she was photographed standing on the plinth during the protests.
By Trina Dawes4 years ago in The Swamp
Children's Homes, Foster Care, and the Social Care System. Creating Already Damaged Children into Even More Damaged Adults
After hearing Alex Wheatle's story about his time in a Lambeth children's home in the 1970s, he wrote a book called Brixton Rock, where he told his heart-breaking childhood in a care home where he was racially, sexually, and physically abused my the staff member's at the care home.
By Trina Dawes5 years ago in The Swamp
We Most Stop Blaming Parents for Gang Culture
I enjoy having conversations with other parents and non-parents about gang culture and the problematic rise in crime in London. I am a former Londoner who has moved out of London. And with no willingness to return for the safety of my son. I grew up in the 90s so I am not that much older than many of the teenage gang members in London today. It has been reported that 6 percent of 10 to 19 year olds belong to a gang in England and Whales. Gang culture researcher Keir Irwin Rogers said that "there was 9,000 stabbing in London alone last year - 2017."
By Trina Dawes6 years ago in Criminal
Why Does a Particular Group of Society Take to Social Media to Target People and Believe It to Be Acceptable?
18/07/2018, I was browsing through Facebook and then I came across a viral video of two teenagers that had bumped a taxi driver in Birmingham. The taxi driver was recording them. He shouted after the girls "That he should throw them to the floor and keep them detained till the police arrive." My first thought was that is a threat. If someone had said that to me over the sake of £20 I would be scared.
By Trina Dawes6 years ago in Humans
