A Moment for MYH
This week felt like a meaningful moment for MYH
By Jade Blue
For the first time, a national feature has focused not only on my own experience, but on the campaign and the purpose behind Make Yourself Heard itself.
In Closer Magazine, I spoke about the Victims’ Right to Review and the campaign to ensure the current pilot becomes permanent. The piece highlights something that still surprises many people: that too many victims still do not know this right exists.
The Victims’ Right to Review was created to allow people to challenge decisions when their cases are dropped. It exists because the system sometimes gets it wrong. But a safeguard only works if people know it’s there.
At the same time this week, I was asked to comment by LBC on the case of a young woman who reported sexual abuse as a child - more than once - and was not believed. Years later, evidence emerged in the most public and painful way possible, and she is now pursuing a Victims’ Right to Review.
I said:
“A child reported abuse. She was not believed. She reported it again - this time with the support of her school - and still no action followed.
Years later, evidence emerged in the most public and painful way possible. That is not a failure of courage on her part. It is a failure of response.
Survivors should not have to wait for a perpetrator to be caught elsewhere to feel vindicated. When a child discloses sexual abuse - especially more than once - the system must respond with seriousness, thoroughness and accountability.
Where decisions not to prosecute are made, there must be clear, meaningful routes to challenge them. The Victims’ Right to Review exists for precisely these situations - to ensure decisions can be scrutinised and, where necessary, corrected.
She has shown extraordinary strength in speaking out and in pursuing a review. She deserves clarity, fairness, and to be treated with dignity at every stage.”
Beyond the coverage itself, this week has also made me pause and reflect.
For years, I held back from fully building Make Yourself Heard because of a quiet but persistent feeling of imposter syndrome - wondering whether I was the right person to create something like this, or whether my voice was enough. But moments like this remind me why it matters.
It makes me incredibly proud to see the conversation growing. More than that, it means a lot when fellow victims and survivors reach out to share their experiences - through messages, conversations, artwork, writing, and many other ways.
It is equally meaningful when people working within the system - journalists, researchers, lawyers, advocates and policymakers - engage with the work too.
Make Yourself Heard was created with one simple hope:
To build a space that feels safe, supportive and nurturing - a place where people can connect, share experiences, and help shape change together.
Because when survivors come together, something powerful happens. Silence begins to shift. Understanding deepens. And slowly, systems begin to listen.
