nerdflighter | website design? rape survivor comms?

can somebody come onto this post or my inbox and talk about how communities for survivors of violence (sexual/otherwise) are structured? and if you had the ability to design a community for survivors, what would you really want? what features are indispensable and which ones would be amazing to have? I'm working on a website for refugees to connect with other refugees (please ask me about it) and I'm trying to look at the closest analogues that I know of that have established communities - I'm also looking at reddit subs for abuse survivors. I want to know what makes these spaces work, and I want to know how to make them as easy to work with as possible. everything you can give me, please.

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I have a friend (very new friend) who works with refugees from all over the world. she's interested in exploring if there's a collective refugee identity and how refugees from different contexts can support each other.
she was talking about how a lot of refugees are very isolated in the places they end up in, so in spite of having an immediate community, they're extremely isolated from the rest of the world.
I'll bring up your points to her, though, and see what she says.
I picked rape survivor comms as the closest analogue to what I was trying to have, but obviously they're not the same situation and many things will have to be adapted and changed.
Thanks for the input! I'll get back to you on the other stuff

website design? rape survivor comms?

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