Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jermina Jamil. I hope you're well and I hope you're safe.

If you have been reading the internet this week, you may be aware of the

murder of Sabina Nessa who is a 28-year-old English woman who was killed at 8.30 pm on a

five-minute walk through a park in the early evening in the late summer in the United Kingdom.

I don't even know how that happens at 8.30 pm. I don't know why it ever happens ever at any time.

We already went through all of this with the Sarah Everard case. If you haven't heard about the

Sabina Nessa case, it may be because she is a woman of colour and there has been distinctly

less coverage of her death. So I just want to make sure that I am paying tribute to this

apparently beloved and kind, beautiful young woman whose life was taken by almost

definitely a man who didn't had fucking control himself. And I'm so sorry to anyone listening to

this who feels frequently unsafe just because of their gender, just because we live in a society

that has still not chosen to treat the cause of male violence and misogyny and instead just puts

all of the pressure and the responsibility onto women to manage men's complete lack of

fucking self-control. We should not wear our headphones when we're walking home at night. We

should pretend to be on the phone. We should only walk through lit high streets. We should

carry alarms and whistles and mace. We should not go out at night on our own. We shouldn't drink too

much. We shouldn't wear the wrong thing. We should get home safe and early. We should spend our

money on cabs because it's not safe for us to take an affordable form of public transport

after the sun goes down. We should do everything. We shouldn't just treat the fucking cause

and handle patriarchy because that would be too much effort for men. I had an amazing other episode,

a couple of months ago, after the disappearance of Sarah Everard with Dr Jackson Cats,

who is an educator in the space of tackling men's violence against women. And it is an extraordinary

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