2 May

I feel explanations of domestic violence rarely talk about the domestic part of the term, focusing mostly on the violence. To me it's a violence intrinsically linked to our ideas of domesticity, not just to gender roles for example. Our ideas of 'home'. You can't understand DV without understanding what it is about our idea of home that seems to encourage this violence in some. We see and structure our homes as separate to society, as secret places, lacking connection. That's not necessary - it's a choice. If you see home as outside society, as only private, it will encourage prison-type behaviour. Violence. Millions of suburban isolated prisons.