Episode 2 of Sacred Space is out now. On prophecy as the oldest human desire, the priesthood we are building around the algorithms, and why Cassandra is the patron saint of the field I work in.

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Three women in this country will be killed by men this week. The UN says we will reach gender parity in 2158. The volume on the conversation has gone down, not up.

Sacred Space is back. Episode 2 is about the gap between what the data on violence against women is telling us and what the public conversation is willing to say.

Leah covers the 2158 projection and what 132 years actually means. Three women a week killed by men in the UK. 59.2% with evidence of overkill. 78% in their own homes. The names you have heard and the names you have not. The Pelicot case and what it proved about ordinary men. Sean Combs, Conor McGregor, the Andrew Tate ecosystem. The tradwife pipeline as reactionary politics with a Pinterest board. The Reform UK threat to existing VAWG infrastructure. The Caribbean feminist tradition that frames the season (Lorde, Wynter, Carby, Condé, Brodber, Breeze). And what to do now, given that we do not have that kind of time.

Specialist organisations referenced: Refuge, Women's Aid, Sistah Space, Southall Black Sisters, Imkaan, Karma Nirvana, Counting Dead Women, the Femicide Census.

Full written version and reading list on Substack - https://open.substack.com/pub/711eah/p/we-do-not-have-that-kind-of-time?r=4r8ies&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true .

Next week: Digital Divination. AI, prophecy, and the politics of prediction.