A St Anne's woman made a stand in the fight against gender-based violence - by holding dumbbells for 12 hours.
Saffron Townsend mounted the one-woman protest in support of the cause on Saturday (March 20, 2021) on College Green.
The dumbbells represented the weight of violence against women.
She raised £300 for Ending Violence Against Woman and Girls.
Saffron said: "I held the weight of my story – with literal dumbbell weights - without shame.
"My story is the story of all other woman and girls who have survived violence.
"I have lived my life as a girl, growing into a woman, bearing the weight of violent acts perpetrated by the patriarchy."
Saffron says nearly all the women she knows have had to walk through life with the heaviness of violence and abuse.
She said: "We are all carrying the weight of the recent murder of Sarah Everard. We are not alone.
"Gender-based violence and abuse isolates us. It makes us feel as though we are the broken ones, the wrong ones, the ones who have no worth.
"We do not have to be victims. And we do not have to be alone."
