FiLiA Podcasts
246 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFiLiA is a UK-based feminist charity, platforming and connecting women through our annual conference, blog posts, and podcasts. Listen to women sharing stories, wisdom, experience, feminism, sisterhood and solidarity. Find us at: www.filia.org.uk
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#131 Fiona MacKensie: We Can't Consent to This
March 01, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 13.1 MBIn this episode of the FiLiA podcast, Fiona MacKensie, from the campaign group ‘We Can’t Consent to This’ talks to Gemma Aitchison about her campaign to make the government ban the so called ‘rough sex defence’. Now set to become law in England and Wales, those accused of murder and assault will no longer be able to claim that the victim consented to their death or injury as part of rough sex or a sex game gone wrong. 60 UK women have been killed by men who claimed a sex game had gone wron...
#130 Esther: Surviving the Sex Trade
February 22, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 39.1 MBEsther, a sex trade survivor from London, talks to FiLiA’s Luba Fein and explains why prostitution cannot be separated from abuse and exploitation. She became involved with activism against the sex trade because of what was happening to women still involved in prostitution, the structural discrimination which puts huge obstacles in the way of their attempts to exit, the hypocrisy of those who are apologists for the sex trade, and the clear targeting of ever-younger girls with messages saniti...
#129 Institutions are failing Women: Joan Smith
February 15, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 29.5 MBOn this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Joan Smith talks to FiLiA’s Sally Jackson about the many ways in which our patriarchal system fails Women who have been subjected to violence from men. Joan Smith is a novelist, journalist and human rights activist. She began writing about violence against women after covering the murders carried out by Peter Sutcliffe in the north of England, which she described in her book Misogynies. She is also the author of the Loretta Lawson crime novels, two of w...
#128 Human Trafficking Survivor from Canada in Open Letter to PM Trudeau: Shut Pornhub Down
February 08, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Luba Fein talks to Caroline Pugh-Roberts, a survivor of eight years of human trafficking. Caroline now works full time exclusively with trafficked persons through the Salvation Army and is an expert on human trafficking who is often called upon to testify as such in trials. She has spoken to and educated over 20 thousand people and is an international speaker. Caroline teaches about HT at the Canadian Police College and has trained the RCMP on the psycho...
#127 Tua: Journey to Asylum
February 01, 2021 07:27 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBTua is a lesbian from Cameroon who finally received her leave to remain in the United Kingdom in 2019. Tua talks to Sally Jackson about the violent lesbophobia she was subjected to in Cameroon, and how she was forced into a marriage by her mother. During her escape, she was exploited and trafficked to England where she faced the shameful policies of the UK's Hostile Environment before finding support here. Her asylum claim was finally accepted in 2019 and she has received her leave to rema...
#126 A Recording From Women In Black Armenia
January 28, 2021 15:45 - 4 minutes - 5.03 MBListen to members of Women In Black Armenia, Sona Hovakimyan and Arpi Balyan, who share their opinions and thoughts about the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war which began on September 27, 2020, and lasted 44 days. The war ended after three failed cease-fires on November 9, 2020, when Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed an agreement to end the military conflict. This recording is the first of our Women in Black series, a powerful collection of testimonies from Women peace activists from acr...
#125 Cambridge Radical Feminist Network: Centring Women’s Rights in Academia
January 27, 2021 19:32 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBFiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez speaks with Imogen, a representative of the Cambridge Radical Feminist Network to discuss its origins as a group, its politics and the recent controversies regarding free speech at the University of Cambridge. TEXTTextREMOVE Listen Here: TEXTTextREMOVE Cambridge Radical Feminist Network: Centring Women’s Rights in Academia FiLiA Podcasts AUDIOAudioEDITREMOVE The Cambridge Radical Feminist Network is a network of feminist students and Cambridge ...
#124 FiLiA meets Sall Grover
January 23, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 44.5 MBSall Grover is the founder & CEO of Giggle, a social network & social medial platform for females. Prior to Giggle, Sall pursued her dream of screenwriting in Hollywood but retired after almost 10 years due to extreme sexual assault and harassment. While she sold screenplays, her movies were never made, probably because they were all about strong women who come to realise that they don’t need a man. Sall currently lives in Australia. She is very happily eternally single and is the proud sing...
#123 Dr Jessica Taylor: Why Women Are Blamed For Everything
January 21, 2021 06:36 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBThis episode of the FiLiA podcast is a recording of the latest meeting of the FiLiA Feminist Book Club. FiLiA CEO, Lisa-Marie Taylor, talks to Dr Jessica Taylor about her new book, based on three years of doctoral research and ten years of practice with women and girls in which she explores the many reasons we blame women for male violence committed against them. Learn about the powerful forces in society and individual psychology which compel us to blame women subjected to male violence. Dr...
#122 Legal Advocacy for Rape Survivors with Dr Olivia Smith
January 18, 2021 06:58 - 19 minutes - 7.31 MBDr Olivia Smith is calling for a national system of legal advocacy, after publishing a report that aims to improve sexual offence victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system. In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, Dr Smith, a lecturer in criminology & social policy at Loughborough University talks to FiLiA volunteer Gemma Aitchison about her campaign for independent legal representation for survivors of all serious sexual offences in England and Wales so that all victims of rape and...
#121 Homeless Child, Sex Trade Victim, Inspiring Author: Meet Grizelda Grootboom
January 11, 2021 07:36 - 43 minutes - 21.8 MBGrizelda Grootboom from South Africa survived apartheid, homelessness and decades of sexual abuse. Now a famous author and survivor activist, Grizelda is interviewed by Luba Fein about her escape from a life of prostitution.
#120 Susan Hawthorne - Vortex: the Crisis of Patriarchy
January 04, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 53.7 MBSusan Hawthorne discusses her new book Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy which draws on her decades of experience and radical feminist knowledge to take on a huge task. Vortex is a wide-ranging analysis of the devastation patriarchy wreaks, including on women, lesbians, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, refugees and landless people, nature and the planet itself. In this podcast, Susan explains the key ideas in Vortex, the running theme in the book of the myth of Cassandra and Troj...
#119 Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith: The Space Between Black and White
December 18, 2020 12:19 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBIlluminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith's unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being ‘an only’. Raised in 1950s South London and Norfolk with a white, working-class family, Esua’s education in racial politics was immediate and personal. From Britain and Scandinavia to Italy and Tanzania, she tackled inequality wherever she saw it, establishing an inspiring legacy in the Women’s lib and Black Power movements. P...
#118 Heather Brunskell-Evans: Transgender Body Politics
December 14, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBDr Heather Brunskell-Evans is a feminist, academic, social theorist and philosopher. On this episode of the podcast, she discusses her latest book, Transgender Body Politics published by Spinifex Press. Transgender Body Politics analyses the political movement of transactivism in a broader sense, explaining the damage this has done to women. Heather outlines the tragic absurdity of having to argue that lesbians don’t have penises, that “women” is a far preferable word than “menstruators" and...
#117 Jewell Baraka: Surviving Life in a Child Brothel
December 07, 2020 10:13 - 30 minutes - 14.9 MBLuba Fein interviews Jewell Baraka, a writer, an activist, and a survivor who was trafficked into prostitution and the pornography industry from age 11-17, in Portland, Oregon, USA. Now, Jewell uses her voice, alongside other survivors and activists to shine a light on the human rights violations in the sex industry.
#116 Hibo Wardere: One Woman's Fight Against FGM
December 03, 2020 11:52 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBHibo Wardere introduces her memoir 'Cut', detailing her life in Somalia and the UK and sheds light on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, that's still being carried out in the 21st century.
#115 Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters on Anti-Racism and Feminism
November 30, 2020 09:58 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBIn this episode, Pragna Patel reflects on her work with Southall Black Sisters, which was established in 1979 to meet the needs of Black (Asian and African-Caribbean) women, and aims "to highlight and challenge all forms gender-related violence against women." Pragna joins FiLiA volunteer Sadia Hameed in a conversation that spans her earlier experiences to the present day, including: getting involved with the feminist, anti-racist and anti-fundamentalist struggles (and why they are interli...
#114 Yes Matters - Research for the 16 Days of Activism Project
November 25, 2020 05:52 - 54 minutes - 48.2 MBGemma Aitchison is a director at the YES Matters UK CIC which is also part of the End Violence Against Women coalition. In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Gemma discusses the recent findings of a research report carried out by Yes Matters, looking at sexual violence and sexual harassment.
#113 Laurel Forster: Women's Activism in Portsmouth
November 23, 2020 09:25 - 38 minutes - 34.4 MBDr Laurel Foster, Reader in Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth, gives a fascinating insight into some of the stories she uncovered from interviewing Women activists in Portsmouth for the Women’s Activism in Portsmouth project.
#112 Listen to Survivors: Alexine Solis - Abolitionist from France
November 16, 2020 09:00 - 19 minutes - 9.95 MBAlexine Solis is a young woman from France who has been in prostitution between 19 and 21 years old. She became an abolitionist activist after participating in the March of Survivors in Germany, Belgium and Spain in 2019.
#111 Stephanie Davies-Arai: Transgender Trend - harms of gender identity teaching, from classroom to clinic
November 16, 2020 06:26 - 1 hour - 120 MBStephanie Davies-Arai is “interested in all things to do with communication.” She designed her own course & accompanying book Communicating with Kids, and is an expert trainer in schools for both teachers and students. She is a feminist, a mother, and campaigner against cultural messages that promote harmful social ‘norms’. Stephanie established Transgender Trend, which describes itself as “a group of parents and professionals concerned about the current trend to diagnose ‘gender non-conform...
#110 Fighting for Freedom: Lina Al-Hathloul Speaks About Her Sister Loujain’s Imprisonment
November 12, 2020 19:21 - 46 minutes - 64 MBFiLiA speaks with Lina Al-Hathloul, the sister of Loujain Al-Hathloul, a women's rights campaigner from Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia as punishment for her campaigning for women's rights. Loujain's campaigning work for women’s civil rights includes advocating for an end to the male guardianship system, for women’s right to drive, for women’s right to political representation and participation, and for the creation of a women’s shelter for victims of domestic violence. ...
Fighting for Freedom: Lina Al-Hathloul Speaks About Her Sister Loujain’s Imprisonment
November 12, 2020 19:21 - 46 minutes - 64 MBFiLiA speaks with Lina Al-Hathloul, the sister of Loujain Al-Hathloul, a women's rights campaigner from Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia as punishment for her campaigning for women's rights. Loujain's campaigning work for women’s civil rights includes advocating for an end to the male guardianship system, for women’s right to drive, for women’s right to political representation and participation, and for the creation of a women’s shelter for victims of domestic violence. ...
#109 Listen to Survivors: Simone Watson - "Prohibition and Decrim have failed."
November 09, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 19.4 MBSimone Watson is a Survivor activist. She is the director of Nordic Model Australia Coalition and a former human rights delegate for Amnesty International. Simone entered prostitution in a legal brothel in Melbourne in her 20’s, she found the world of legalised prostitution to be anything but ‘safe’ and left. Find the Nordic Model Australia Coalition on their Website and Facebook
Listen to Survivors: Simone Watson - "Prohibition and Decrim have failed."
November 09, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 19.4 MBSimone Watson is a Survivor activist. She is the director of Nordic Model Australia Coalition and a former human rights delegate for Amnesty International. Simone entered prostitution in a legal brothel in Melbourne in her 20’s, she found the world of legalised prostitution to be anything but ‘safe’ and left. Find the Nordic Model Australia Coalition on their Website and Facebook
Ro Edge: Speak Up for Women - Saving Women’s Sports in New Zealand and Beyond
November 02, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes - 28.2 MBSpeak Up for Women is a non-partisan organisation that exists to protect and advance the rights and interests of women and girls in New Zealand, in law, policy, and society, based on the shared material reality of being members of the female sex. They support respectful, evidence-based dialogue and freedom of speech. They support the rights of transgender people to live their lives free from violence and discrimination. Rights do not exist in isolation and a fair society balances the rights ...
#108 Ro Edge: Speak Up for Women - Saving Women’s Sports in New Zealand and Beyond
November 02, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes - 28.2 MBSpeak Up for Women is a non-partisan organisation that exists to protect and advance the rights and interests of women and girls in New Zealand, in law, policy, and society, based on the shared material reality of being members of the female sex. They support respectful, evidence-based dialogue and freedom of speech. They support the rights of transgender people to live their lives free from violence and discrimination. Rights do not exist in isolation and a fair society balances the rights ...
#107 Listen to Survivors: Valerie Tender - militant abolitionist radical feminist
October 26, 2020 17:02 - 54 minutes - 27.2 MBValérie Pelletier (aka Legal Tender) is a militant abolitionist radical feminist from Montréal, Quebec in Canada. She is a survivor of prostitution, now a public speaker, a conceptual artist. a vlogger, a singer (jazz, country etc.) and the happy mother of 4 cat children. She is also involved at CAFES (Collectif d'Aide aux Femmes Exploitées Sexuellement). Contact via email Page as a militant artist (more English) Activist project page (more French) YouTube Channel
Listen to Survivors: Valerie Tender - militant abolitionist radical feminist
October 26, 2020 17:02 - 54 minutes - 27.2 MBValérie Pelletier (aka Legal Tender) is a militant abolitionist radical feminist from Montréal, Quebec in Canada. She is a survivor of prostitution, now a public speaker, a conceptual artist. a vlogger, a singer (jazz, country etc.) and the happy mother of 4 cat children. She is also involved at CAFES (Collectif d'Aide aux Femmes Exploitées Sexuellement). Contact via email Page as a militant artist (more English) Activist project page (more French) YouTube Channel
#106 Afsana Lachaux: Dubai and Sharia law - a warning for women
October 26, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBAfsana Lachaux is a policy specialist and an award-winning women’s rights campaigner on access to justice and violence against women and girls. This podcast interview highlights Afsana's legal struggle to obtain contact with her son Louis and the pitfalls of Sharia law in Dubai for women. Afsana writes about why a British court ordered her to pay her ex-husbands £94K legal bill here. She continues her battle as a mother to be reunited with her child, which so far has spanned eight years and ...
Afsana Lachaux: Dubai and Sharia law - a warning for women
October 26, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBAfsana Lachaux is a policy specialist and an award-winning women’s rights campaigner on access to justice and violence against women and girls. This podcast interview highlights Afsana's legal struggle to obtain contact with her son Louis and the pitfalls of Sharia law in Dubai for women. Afsana writes about why a British court ordered her to pay her ex-husbands £94K legal bill here. She continues her battle as a mother to be reunited with her child, which so far has spanned eight years and ...
Dr Nicola Williams: Fair Play for Women - why sex-based policies matter for women's sport
October 20, 2020 16:54 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBFair Play for Women is a campaigning and consultancy group which raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and supports policy-makers to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK. Their aim is to facilitate the much-needed factual discussion about the need for sex-based policies for women and to provide policy makers with the guidance they need for evidence-based policy making that is fair for all. Fair Play for Women has earned a reputation, amongst the general public, policy...
Dr #105 Nicola Williams: Fair Play for Women - why sex-based policies matter for women's sport
October 20, 2020 16:54 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBFair Play for Women is a campaigning and consultancy group which raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and supports policy-makers to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK. Their aim is to facilitate the much-needed factual discussion about the need for sex-based policies for women and to provide policy makers with the guidance they need for evidence-based policy making that is fair for all. Fair Play for Women has earned a reputation, amongst the general public, policy...
#104 Cherry Smiley - fighting for the liberation of Indigenous women and girls
October 18, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBCherry Smiley is a feminist campaigner, artist, and researcher from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) Nations. She has worked as an anti-violence worker in rape crisis centres and transition houses for battered women and their children, as the assistant coordinator for drop-in anti-violence groups for Indigenous girls, and as a project manager for a national native women’s organization. Cherry speaks locally, nationally and internationally on sexualized colonial male violence aga...
Cherry Smiley - fighting for the liberation of Indigenous women and girls
October 18, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBCherry Smiley is a feminist campaigner, artist, and researcher from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) Nations. She has worked as an anti-violence worker in rape crisis centres and transition houses for battered women and their children, as the assistant coordinator for drop-in anti-violence groups for Indigenous girls, and as a project manager for a national native women’s organization. Cherry speaks locally, nationally and internationally on sexualized colonial male violence aga...
#103 Listen to Survivors: Sex Trade from the Perspective of Marxist and Radical Feminism
October 15, 2020 15:18 - 51 minutes - 19.9 MBMary Stolinski is not only a survivor of the sex trade but also a radical feminist thinker. She analyzes her personal story in the light of feminist and Marxist theories, and explains how a liberal, capitalist and misogynist society sacrifices women to the sex trade. Mary refutes the prevailing liberal beliefs about the sex trade and gender ideology.
Listen to Survivors: Sex Trade from the Perspective of Marxist and Radical Feminism
October 15, 2020 15:18 - 51 minutes - 19.9 MBMary Stolinski is not only a survivor of the sex trade but also a radical feminist thinker. She analyzes her personal story in the light of feminist and Marxist theories, and explains how a liberal, capitalist and misogynist society sacrifices women to the sex trade. Mary refutes the prevailing liberal beliefs about the sex trade and gender ideology.
Coach Linda Blade - Save Women's Sports
October 10, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBDr. Linda Blade is a Sport Performance Professional with a PhD in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University, in Canada. She is a track and field coach and the current President of Athletics Alberta (Alberta Association for Track & Field, Cross-Country and Road Running). Dr. Linda Blade has worked for 25 years as a Sport Performance Professional coach in Edmonton teaching fundamental biomotor skills to athletes in over 15 sports (from beginner to elite). Since 2014, Linda has served as Presid...
#102 Coach Linda Blade - Save Women's Sports
October 10, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBDr. Linda Blade is a Sport Performance Professional with a PhD in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University, in Canada. She is a track and field coach and the current President of Athletics Alberta (Alberta Association for Track & Field, Cross-Country and Road Running). Dr. Linda Blade has worked for 25 years as a Sport Performance Professional coach in Edmonton teaching fundamental biomotor skills to athletes in over 15 sports (from beginner to elite). Since 2014, Linda has served as Presid...
Olympian Swimmer Sharron Davies - On Women's Sports
October 05, 2020 16:02 - 23 minutes - 15.3 MBSharron Davies MBE, is a professional Olympian swimmer from England. She learned to swim at six years old, to train by eight and began obtaining public recognition in international competitions by eleven years old. Aged thirteen, she represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games of 1976. The height of her sporting career came in the year 1980, when she won the silver medal at the Olympic Games held in Moscow, losing to the German Petra Schneider. Years later, when the scandal about how East...
#101 Olympian Swimmer Sharron Davies - On Women's Sports
October 05, 2020 16:02 - 23 minutes - 15.3 MBSharron Davies MBE, is a professional Olympian swimmer from England. She learned to swim at six years old, to train by eight and began obtaining public recognition in international competitions by eleven years old. Aged thirteen, she represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games of 1976. The height of her sporting career came in the year 1980, when she won the silver medal at the Olympic Games held in Moscow, losing to the German Petra Schneider. Years later, when the scandal about how East...
#100 Celebrating 100 FiLiA Podcasts
October 01, 2020 11:16 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBWe’ve reached a small milestone in our team: 100 episodes of the FiLiA podcast. To celebrate this very special episode, I spoke with a few of the amazing women who bring life and magic to FiLiA - Lisa-Marie, Julian, Sally, Kruti and Raquel. Their reflections, insights and discussion can be heard here, covering the three charitable aims of FiLiA: building sisterhood and solidarity, amplifying the voices of women and defending women’s human rights. The team discuss highlights and challenges of...
Celebrating 100 FiLiA Podcasts
October 01, 2020 11:16 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBWe’ve reached a small milestone in our team: 100 episodes of the FiLiA podcast. To celebrate this very special episode, I spoke with a few of the amazing women who bring life and magic to FiLiA - Lisa-Marie, Julian, Sally, Kruti and Raquel. Their reflections, insights and discussion can be heard here, covering the three charitable aims of FiLiA: building sisterhood and solidarity, amplifying the voices of women and defending women’s human rights. The team discuss highlights and challenges of...
#099 FiLiA meets: Angelika Chaffey - You My Sister
September 28, 2020 12:39 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBAngelika Chaffey discusses You My Sister, new charity set up to support survivors of the sex trade - whose work is heavily informed by exited women. You My Sister’s first project was to create a unique mental health recovery programme specifically tailored for women who have exited any branch of the porn/sex trade. This has been created and will be delivered with survivors and is a hugely powerful form of peer-led guided recovery. It is run online so, in theory, women from anywhere in the wo...
FiLiA meets: Angelika Chaffey - You My Sister
September 28, 2020 12:39 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBAngelika Chaffey discusses You My Sister, new charity set up to support survivors of the sex trade - whose work is heavily informed by exited women. You My Sister’s first project was to create a unique mental health recovery programme specifically tailored for women who have exited any branch of the porn/sex trade. This has been created and will be delivered with survivors and is a hugely powerful form of peer-led guided recovery. It is run online so, in theory, women from anywhere in the wo...
#098 FiLiA discusses: Sheila Jeffreys's autobiography - Trigger Warning
September 21, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes - 78.3 MBLock up your boys, there's a new Sheila Jeffreys book in town: Trigger Warning. Her ideas are so triggering, we had to warn our listeners! Godlessness forbid you heard about women's liberation or other frivolous ideas without mental preparation. In this FiLiA podcast, you'll learn about Sheila Jeffreys's life as an activist and her opinions on religion (hint: it's a patriarchal institution), lesbianism, animal liberation and more. She is interviewed by Yağmur Uygarkızı. Sheila Jeffreys is a...
FiLiA discusses: Sheila Jeffreys's autobiography - Trigger Warning
September 21, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes - 78.3 MBLock up your boys, there's a new Sheila Jeffreys book in town: Trigger Warning. Her ideas are so triggering, we had to warn our listeners! Godlessness forbid you heard about women's liberation or other frivolous ideas without mental preparation. In this FiLiA podcast, you'll learn about Sheila Jeffreys's life as an activist and her opinions on religion (hint: it's a patriarchal institution), lesbianism, animal liberation and more. She is interviewed by Yağmur Uygarkızı. Sheila Jeffreys is a...
#097 FiLiA meets: Louise Godbold
September 14, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBLouise Godbold shares her experience and knowledge on how trauma can affect us, what happens in the brain and how that might show in our behaviour and body. Lou shares examples from her work with fellow trauma survivors, and personally as a Weinstein survivor to help us deal with our trauma or support those we care about. For this podcast, she joins FiLiA’s Sally Jackson in discussion. Lou is Director of Echo Training, which provides trauma & resilience training for families, communities, p...
FiLiA meets: Louise Godbold
September 14, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBLouise Godbold shares her experience and knowledge on how trauma can affect us, what happens in the brain and how that might show in our behaviour and body. Lou shares examples from her work with fellow trauma survivors, and personally as a Weinstein survivor to help us deal with our trauma or support those we care about. For this podcast, she joins FiLiA’s Sally Jackson in discussion. Lou is Director of Echo Training, which provides trauma & resilience training for families, communities, p...
#096 FiLiA meets: Harriet Wistrich
August 26, 2020 08:40 - 49 minutes - 42.2 MBHarriet Wistrich is founder and director of the Centre for Womens Justice 2016, a multi partner organisation aimed at bringing cases holding the state to account in relation to violence against women and girls. She is also a solicitor of many years experience, winner of the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award 2014 and Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2018. She also a founder of the campaign group Justice for Women and trustee of the charity, the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize. She has a...