The Form

“The Form” replicates questions from Counselling Service intake form. Survivors will often be referred to community services for support, after separation from their abuser.

What starts as a simple bureaucratic intake form soon becomes a triggering, re-traumatising nightmare as victims are forced to relive the worst moments in their lives as they attempt to answer the questions.

Women’s outrage is expressing through the quilted stitches on the form, but the underlying emotion is futility and resignation.

As women, we are conditioned to accept the process and not rock the boat. Forms provide that authority, where we must comply and respond truthfully and completely, even to our own detriment.