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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FiLiA meets: Simi Kamal
April 12, 2020 10:15 - 43 minutes - 27.7 MBSimi Kamal is head of grants at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She is a geographer, social development specialist, and women’s rights advocate with over 30 years’ experience in water sector, poverty alleviation, inclusive development, and gender equality. She is author or co-author of more than 400 papers, articles, book chapters, handbooks, and modules published and presented worldwide. Simi joins FiLiA to discuss her experience and work as part of the Every Woman Treaty - a campaig...
#071 FiLiA meets: Simi Kamal
April 12, 2020 10:15 - 43 minutes - 27.7 MBSimi Kamal is head of grants at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She is a geographer, social development specialist, and women’s rights advocate with over 30 years’ experience in water sector, poverty alleviation, inclusive development, and gender equality. She is author or co-author of more than 400 papers, articles, book chapters, handbooks, and modules published and presented worldwide. Simi joins FiLiA to discuss her experience and work as part of the Every Woman Treaty - a campaig...
Violence Against Lesbians - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 09, 2020 17:37 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBRecording from the Violence Against Lesbians Panel at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Featuring: Susan Hawthorne - Unnoticed, Unrecorded, Unremembered: Inscribing the Torture of Lesbians Hilary McCollum - Voicing Violence Against Lesbians Counsuelo Rivera Fuentes - My Experiences of Pain in Torture and Imprisonment in Dictatorial Chile Angela C Wild - Lesbians at Ground Zero: Lesbians and the Cotton Ceiling
#070 Violence Against Lesbians - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 09, 2020 17:37 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBRecording from the Violence Against Lesbians Panel at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Featuring: Susan Hawthorne - Unnoticed, Unrecorded, Unremembered: Inscribing the Torture of Lesbians Hilary McCollum - Voicing Violence Against Lesbians Counsuelo Rivera Fuentes - My Experiences of Pain in Torture and Imprisonment in Dictatorial Chile Angela C Wild - Lesbians at Ground Zero: Lesbians and the Cotton Ceiling
#069 Sunday Closing Speeches - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 05, 2020 13:32 - 1 hour - 124 MBRecording from the Sunday Closing Session of the FiLiA 2019 Conference. Featuring a number of women speaking, including: Sharena Lee Satti, author and passionate poet from Bradford, who speaks openly about her past and encourages others to find their voice through art and self-expression. Megan Armitage, 19-year old university student and great-granddaughter of Bradford suffragette Lilian Armitage. Dr Akima Thomas, Black feminist activist from a background in nursing, social work and psyc...
Sunday Closing Speeches - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 05, 2020 13:32 - 1 hour - 124 MBRecording from the Sunday Closing Session of the FiLiA 2019 Conference. Featuring a number of women speaking, including: Sharena Lee Satti, author and passionate poet from Bradford, who speaks openly about her past and encourages others to find their voice through art and self-expression. Megan Armitage, 19-year old university student and great-granddaughter of Bradford suffragette Lilian Armitage. Dr Akima Thomas, Black feminist activist from a background in nursing, social work and psyc...
#068 Sunday Opening Speeches - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 05, 2020 13:31 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBRecording from the Sunday Opening Session at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Marie Laguerre - From being catcalled and punched in the street to cyber harassment - a story of sexist violence. Jessica Taylor - All the ways we continue to blame women and girls for male violence. Miss Yankey - Secret chains and chambers: “Another Woman’s Cry” My story of survival.
Sunday Opening Speeches - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 05, 2020 13:31 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBRecording from the Sunday Opening Session at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Marie Laguerre - From being catcalled and punched in the street to cyber harassment - a story of sexist violence. Jessica Taylor - All the ways we continue to blame women and girls for male violence. Miss Yankey - Secret chains and chambers: “Another Woman’s Cry” My story of survival.
From Born in Your Own Body to the Invention of the Transgender Child - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 05, 2020 13:31 - 48 minutes - 61.4 MBA recording of the panel on the invention of transgender children from the FiLiA Conference in October 2019. Featuring: Charlie Evans, who founded the Detransition Advocacy Network; a charity to support people who have desisted or reversed gender reassignment. Susan Matthews, who shows how the new genre of gender identity workbook effectively creates a new consciousness within its readers, creating anxiety and developing an obsession with the concept of gender which is understood as biologic...
#067 From Born in Your Own Body to the Invention of the Transgender Child - FiLiA Conference 2019
April 05, 2020 13:31 - 48 minutes - 61.4 MBA recording of the panel on the invention of transgender children from the FiLiA Conference in October 2019. Featuring: Charlie Evans, who founded the Detransition Advocacy Network; a charity to support people who have desisted or reversed gender reassignment. Susan Matthews, who shows how the new genre of gender identity workbook effectively creates a new consciousness within its readers, creating anxiety and developing an obsession with the concept of gender which is understood as biologic...
FiLiA Meets: Greater Manchester Doulas - Birth during COVID-19
April 02, 2020 08:20 - 29 minutes - 18.2 MBIn the UK, as the coronavirus pandemic rages, we are seeing the effects of years of over-medicalisation of birth. The NHS has decided that the best use of its midwives would be to close all midwifery-led units, strip back their home birth services and redeploy all midwives to the obstetric units. This is a huge blow, but it is just the start. This move made it so that healthy women had to scrap their plans for a low/no-intervention natural birth and head to an obstetric unit, where the rates...
#066 FiLiA Meets: Greater Manchester Doulas - Birth during COVID-19
April 02, 2020 08:20 - 29 minutes - 18.2 MBIn the UK, as the coronavirus pandemic rages, we are seeing the effects of years of over-medicalisation of birth. The NHS has decided that the best use of its midwives would be to close all midwifery-led units, strip back their home birth services and redeploy all midwives to the obstetric units. This is a huge blow, but it is just the start. This move made it so that healthy women had to scrap their plans for a low/no-intervention natural birth and head to an obstetric unit, where the rates...
#065 FiLiA meets: Meera Khanna
April 01, 2020 15:36 - 25 minutes - 16.1 MBMeera Khanna is a feminist, social activist, writer, and poet, and the trustee and executive vice president of Guild for Service, an NGO focused on empowering marginalized women and children across India. She joins FiLiA in conversation as a member of the Every Woman Treaty Working Group, a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. She has 20 years of experience working in development, including spearheading projects that build the economic, political, and legal c...
FiLiA meets: Meera Khanna
April 01, 2020 15:36 - 25 minutes - 16.1 MBMeera Khanna is a feminist, social activist, writer, and poet, and the trustee and executive vice president of Guild for Service, an NGO focused on empowering marginalized women and children across India. She joins FiLiA in conversation as a member of the Every Woman Treaty Working Group, a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. She has 20 years of experience working in development, including spearheading projects that build the economic, political, and legal c...
FiLiA Meets: Susan Bewley
March 25, 2020 11:59 - 34 minutes - 47 MBSusan Bewley is Professor Emeritus in Obstetrics & Women’s Health at King’s College London. She qualified as a doctor in 1982 and was the first woman to subspecialise in maternal-fetal medicine in the UK. Susan became consultant & Clinical Director at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals. She was a Sexual Offences Examiner & job-share clinical lead at The Havens Sexual Assault Referral Centres. Susan has published widely on severe maternal morbidity and health aspects of violence against women & gir...
#064 FiLiA Meets: Susan Bewley
March 25, 2020 11:59 - 34 minutes - 47 MBSusan Bewley is Professor Emeritus in Obstetrics & Women’s Health at King’s College London. She qualified as a doctor in 1982 and was the first woman to subspecialise in maternal-fetal medicine in the UK. Susan became consultant & Clinical Director at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals. She was a Sexual Offences Examiner & job-share clinical lead at The Havens Sexual Assault Referral Centres. Susan has published widely on severe maternal morbidity and health aspects of violence against women & gir...
#063 FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry
March 22, 2020 10:58 - 29 minutes - 10.5 MBKathleen Barry is a feminist, sociologist and internationally recognised human rights activist. She is a Professor Emerita and the author of five books, including the landmark work Female Sexual Slavery published in 1979. Kathleen has been a close friend of FiLiA for a number of years and we are honoured to be speaking with her on this podcast. She joined a FiLiA weekend by Skype to handhold the team through our first Consciousness Raising session. Her book Susan B Anthony: A Biography of a ...
FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry
March 22, 2020 10:58 - 29 minutes - 10.5 MBKathleen Barry is a feminist, sociologist and internationally recognised human rights activist. She is a Professor Emerita and the author of five books, including the landmark work Female Sexual Slavery published in 1979. Kathleen has been a close friend of FiLiA for a number of years and we are honoured to be speaking with her on this podcast. She joined a FiLiA weekend by Skype to handhold the team through our first Consciousness Raising session. Her book Susan B Anthony: A Biography of a ...
#062 FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe
March 18, 2020 08:43 - 30 minutes - 10.6 MBSam Walshe speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager and having disclosable criminal records. She participated in a legal case brought by three women (including Fiona Broadfoot) formerly involved in prostitution, which challenged the Government’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Regulations. After an unhappy childhood marred with violence and sexual abuse, Sam was exploited into prostitution at the age of 14. She was trafficked between Bristol and ...
FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe
March 18, 2020 08:43 - 30 minutes - 10.6 MBSam Walshe speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager and having disclosable criminal records. She participated in a legal case brought by three women (including Fiona Broadfoot) formerly involved in prostitution, which challenged the Government’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Regulations. After an unhappy childhood marred with violence and sexual abuse, Sam was exploited into prostitution at the age of 14. She was trafficked between Bristol and ...
FiLiA meets: Bev Jackson - LGB Alliance
March 13, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 24.5 MBBev Jackson set up the LGB Alliance together with Kate Harris in October 2019. LGB Alliance is a lesbian-led organization for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals that emphasizes the importance of biological sex, not gender identity, when talking about sexual orientation. The best ways to support LGB Alliance are to follow it on Twitter at @AllianceLGB (and get all your friends to follow it as well!), find it on Facebook and to donate at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lgb-alliance Thos...
#061 FiLiA meets: Bev Jackson - LGB Alliance
March 13, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 24.5 MBBev Jackson set up the LGB Alliance together with Kate Harris in October 2019. LGB Alliance is a lesbian-led organization for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals that emphasizes the importance of biological sex, not gender identity, when talking about sexual orientation. The best ways to support LGB Alliance are to follow it on Twitter at @AllianceLGB (and get all your friends to follow it as well!), find it on Facebook and to donate at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lgb-alliance Thos...
FiLiA meets: Manu Schon
March 11, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 83.4 MBManu Schon is a sociologist and radical feminist blogger for the Blog “Die Störenfriedas.” She is an anti-prostitution activist, co-founder of Abolition 2014 and LINKE – for a world without prostitution. Manu runs (together with others) SEX INDUSTRY KILLS – documenting homicides and attempted homicides in prostitution. In this podcast, she is joined in conversation with Heather Brunskell-Evans to discuss the subject of prostitution, the experience of German women and the sex industry and why...
#060 FiLiA meets: Manu Schon
March 11, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 83.4 MBManu Schon is a sociologist and radical feminist blogger for the Blog “Die Störenfriedas.” She is an anti-prostitution activist, co-founder of Abolition 2014 and LINKE – for a world without prostitution. Manu runs (together with others) SEX INDUSTRY KILLS – documenting homicides and attempted homicides in prostitution. In this podcast, she is joined in conversation with Heather Brunskell-Evans to discuss the subject of prostitution, the experience of German women and the sex industry and why...
#059 FiLiA meets: Susan Hawthorne
March 06, 2020 11:56 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBIn this podcast, Susan Hawthorne speaks to FiLiA about her work in researching violence against lesbians. Susan joined the Women's Liberation Movement in 1973, the Collective of Melbourne's Rape Crisis Centre in 1974 and has been involved in many different areas including as an aerialist in the Performing Older Women's Circus, organising writers festivals and feminist conferences. She is the author of fifteen books: three fiction, nine poetry and three non-fiction. In Uganda in 2002, a woman...
FiLiA meets: Susan Hawthorne
March 06, 2020 11:56 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBIn this podcast, Susan Hawthorne speaks to FiLiA about her work in researching violence against lesbians. Susan joined the Women's Liberation Movement in 1973, the Collective of Melbourne's Rape Crisis Centre in 1974 and has been involved in many different areas including as an aerialist in the Performing Older Women's Circus, organising writers festivals and feminist conferences. She is the author of fifteen books: three fiction, nine poetry and three non-fiction. In Uganda in 2002, a woman...
#058 FiLiA meets: CAME Women and Girls
February 12, 2020 09:05 - 29 minutes - 54 MBCame Women and Girls Development Organisation (CAWOGIDO) is a community based diaspora organisation dedicated to improving the health and well-being of a variety of people from disadvantaged communities, Black and Minority Ethnic groups, develop their potential and mobilise them to engage effectively in community development and regeneration activities and build their capacities. For this podcast, Margaret, Bernadette and Geraldine join FiLiA in a discussion on breast ironing. From the CAME...
FiLiA meets: CAME Women and Girls
February 12, 2020 09:05 - 29 minutes - 54 MBCame Women and Girls Development Organisation (CAWOGIDO) is a community based diaspora organisation dedicated to improving the health and well-being of a variety of people from disadvantaged communities, Black and Minority Ethnic groups, develop their potential and mobilise them to engage effectively in community development and regeneration activities and build their capacities. For this podcast, Margaret, Bernadette and Geraldine join FiLiA in a discussion on breast ironing. From the CAME...
FiLiA meets: Mandy Sanghera
February 12, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes - 85.2 MBMandy Sanghera is an award winning philanthropist, a community consultant and global campaigner often referred to as a global catalyst. As well as being an international human rights activist & motivational TEDx speaker from UK , Mandy has travelled all over the world, empowering & motivating others. With over three decades of experience, Mandy is an expert in various development related fields. She has been driving innovation, building strategic partnerships, promoting advocacy and program...
#057 FiLiA meets: Mandy Sanghera
February 12, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes - 85.2 MBMandy Sanghera is an award winning philanthropist, a community consultant and global campaigner often referred to as a global catalyst. As well as being an international human rights activist & motivational TEDx speaker from UK , Mandy has travelled all over the world, empowering & motivating others. With over three decades of experience, Mandy is an expert in various development related fields. She has been driving innovation, building strategic partnerships, promoting advocacy and program...
FiLiA discusses: Rape Case in Cyprus with Bracha Barad
February 10, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 5.6 MBFiLiA has covered the case of a young British woman who reported being gang raped while staying at a resort in Cyprus, and called on the UK Government to take action. Read our piece Cyprus: trial by porn culture In this podcast, FiLiA speaks with feminist activist Bracha Barad, who flew from Israel to Cyprus to show support for the victim. Bracha Barad is a Co-founder and Executive Director of Kulan, an Israeli feminist NGO. She began producing the Tel Aviv Slut Walk in 2016, administration...
#056 FiLiA discusses: Rape Case in Cyprus with Bracha Barad
February 10, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 5.6 MBFiLiA has covered the case of a young British woman who reported being gang raped while staying at a resort in Cyprus, and called on the UK Government to take action. Read our piece Cyprus: trial by porn culture In this podcast, FiLiA speaks with feminist activist Bracha Barad, who flew from Israel to Cyprus to show support for the victim. Bracha Barad is a Co-founder and Executive Director of Kulan, an Israeli feminist NGO. She began producing the Tel Aviv Slut Walk in 2016, administration...
#055 FiLiA meets: Mary-Ann Stephenson
February 05, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 58.3 MBMary-Ann Stephenson is the Director of the Women’s Budget Group, an independent network of academic researchers, policy experts and campaigners working for a caring economy that promotes women’s equality. She has worked for women’s equality and human rights for over twenty years as a campaigner, researcher and trainer. She was previously Director of the Fawcett Society and a Commissioner on the Women’s National Commission. She is a founder member of Coventry Women’s Voices and a board member...
FiLiA meets: Mary-Ann Stephenson
February 05, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 58.3 MBMary-Ann Stephenson is the Director of the Women’s Budget Group, an independent network of academic researchers, policy experts and campaigners working for a caring economy that promotes women’s equality. She has worked for women’s equality and human rights for over twenty years as a campaigner, researcher and trainer. She was previously Director of the Fawcett Society and a Commissioner on the Women’s National Commission. She is a founder member of Coventry Women’s Voices and a board member...
FiLiA meets: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes
January 29, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 33 MBConsuelo Rivera-Fuentes spoke at the FiLiA Conference in 2019: I am an activist, EFL teacher, sociologist, feminist Lesbian, writer and publisher. As a feminist Lesbian writer and reader, I practise Sym/biography and Flourishing (two concepts I have coined and developed throughout the years). As a publisher I give huge importance to the enmeshing of both concepts above in a wider system called Bibliodiversity. As a writer, I love to ‘memory’ in company, so I form part of Las Juanas (femi...
#054 FiLiA meets: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes
January 29, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 33 MBConsuelo Rivera-Fuentes spoke at the FiLiA Conference in 2019: I am an activist, EFL teacher, sociologist, feminist Lesbian, writer and publisher. As a feminist Lesbian writer and reader, I practise Sym/biography and Flourishing (two concepts I have coined and developed throughout the years). As a publisher I give huge importance to the enmeshing of both concepts above in a wider system called Bibliodiversity. As a writer, I love to ‘memory’ in company, so I form part of Las Juanas (femi...
FiLiA Meets: Jalna Hanmer
January 29, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBJalna Hanmer is a Professor of Women’s Studies who has been influential in developing our theory and understanding of male violence against women and established early Women’s Studies courses at the University of Bradford. In 1974 Jalna was involved in setting up the National Women’s Aid Federation (NWAF) and later the Women’s Aid Federation England (WAFE). She also was part of the organising group for the international conference on multiple forms of violence against women (WOVA) held in Br...
#053 FiLiA Meets: Jalna Hanmer
January 29, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBJalna Hanmer is a Professor of Women’s Studies who has been influential in developing our theory and understanding of male violence against women and established early Women’s Studies courses at the University of Bradford. In 1974 Jalna was involved in setting up the National Women’s Aid Federation (NWAF) and later the Women’s Aid Federation England (WAFE). She also was part of the organising group for the international conference on multiple forms of violence against women (WOVA) held in Br...
FiLiA meets: Hala Aldosari
December 15, 2019 13:06 - 49 minutes - 67 MBHala Aldosari, PhD, Saudi Arabia/USA, is a scholar-activist best known for advocating for women’s rights and protection from violence in Saudi Arabia. Her writing, speaking, and activism focuses on ending the country’s oppressive male-guardianship law and reforming family law. She was part of the protest to end the driving ban in Saudi Arabia; founded Aminah, an online resource center to promote full citizenship rights of Saudi women; and hosted a radio show for women’s rights. Hala’s activi...
#052 FiLiA meets: Hala Aldosari
December 15, 2019 13:06 - 49 minutes - 67 MBHala Aldosari, PhD, Saudi Arabia/USA, is a scholar-activist best known for advocating for women’s rights and protection from violence in Saudi Arabia. Her writing, speaking, and activism focuses on ending the country’s oppressive male-guardianship law and reforming family law. She was part of the protest to end the driving ban in Saudi Arabia; founded Aminah, an online resource center to promote full citizenship rights of Saudi women; and hosted a radio show for women’s rights. Hala’s activi...
#051 FiLiA meets: Sian Norris
December 15, 2019 12:30 - 40 minutes - 58 MBSian Norris is a feminist activist, writer, poet, journalist, copywriter and producer. She is the founder and director of the Bristol Women’s Literature festival. In her journalism she specialises in feminism, LGBT rights and the rise of the Far Right. For this podcast, Sian is joined in conversation by FiLiA volunteer Alice to discuss her work, including Sian’s piece Revealed: controversial plan to boost religious lobby in Brussels as far right pledges to fight for Christian Europe. (Pleas...
FiLiA meets: Sian Norris
December 15, 2019 12:30 - 40 minutes - 58 MBSian Norris is a feminist activist, writer, poet, journalist, copywriter and producer. She is the founder and director of the Bristol Women’s Literature festival. In her journalism she specialises in feminism, LGBT rights and the rise of the Far Right. For this podcast, Sian is joined in conversation by FiLiA volunteer Alice to discuss her work, including Sian’s piece Revealed: controversial plan to boost religious lobby in Brussels as far right pledges to fight for Christian Europe. (Pleas...
#050 FiLiA meets: Angela C Wild
November 13, 2019 21:11 - 38 minutes - 23.5 MBAngela C. Wild is a lesbian feminist activist, writer, researcher and a political artist. Her work focuses on promoting uncompromising lesbian visibility, building lesbian culture, fighting for women-only-spaces as well as challenging compulsory heterosexuality, institutionalised femininity, motherhood and pornography. She is a founding member of Get The L Out lesbian activist group and author of Lesbians At Ground Zero the first research on the cotton ceiling. She is a contributor to the ...
FiLiA meets: Angela C Wild
November 13, 2019 21:11 - 38 minutes - 23.5 MBAngela C. Wild is a lesbian feminist activist, writer, researcher and a political artist. Her work focuses on promoting uncompromising lesbian visibility, building lesbian culture, fighting for women-only-spaces as well as challenging compulsory heterosexuality, institutionalised femininity, motherhood and pornography. She is a founding member of Get The L Out lesbian activist group and author of Lesbians At Ground Zero the first research on the cotton ceiling. She is a contributor to the ...
Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation - FiLiA Conference 2019
November 08, 2019 17:19 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBPanel Discussion on SURROGACY - A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION, recorded at the Filia Conference 2019 DO WE NEED A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF SURROGACY? THE LAW COMMISSION OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND THE SCOTTISH LAW COMMISSION HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING A PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON PROVISIONAL PROPOSALS FOR REFORM OF THE LAWS GOVERNING SURROGACY IN THE UK. THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE CONSULTATION IS OCTOBER 11, 2019. AFTER REVIEWING ALL RESPONSES, THEY WILL DECIDE ON THEIR FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LAW REFORM, ACCOMP...
#049 Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation - FiLiA Conference 2019
November 08, 2019 17:19 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBPanel Discussion on SURROGACY - A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION, recorded at the Filia Conference 2019 DO WE NEED A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF SURROGACY? THE LAW COMMISSION OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND THE SCOTTISH LAW COMMISSION HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING A PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON PROVISIONAL PROPOSALS FOR REFORM OF THE LAWS GOVERNING SURROGACY IN THE UK. THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE CONSULTATION IS OCTOBER 11, 2019. AFTER REVIEWING ALL RESPONSES, THEY WILL DECIDE ON THEIR FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LAW REFORM, ACCOMP...
WAST Women Asylum Seekers Together - FiLiA Conference 2019
November 07, 2019 10:56 - 24 minutes - 32.8 MBWAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together) performing at the FiLiA Conference 2019. STILL WE RISE WAST roadshow - “Still WE Rise”- is written, performed by our members of WAST and directed by Magdaline Bartlette. The roadshow is made up of drama, song and poetry performances which show the reality through our own experiences of the trauma that we and so many other women seeking asylum have to face living under immigration rules in the UK. The roadshow also shows how together we can give each oth...
#048 WAST Women Asylum Seekers Together - FiLiA Conference 2019
November 07, 2019 10:56 - 24 minutes - 32.8 MBWAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together) performing at the FiLiA Conference 2019. STILL WE RISE WAST roadshow - “Still WE Rise”- is written, performed by our members of WAST and directed by Magdaline Bartlette. The roadshow is made up of drama, song and poetry performances which show the reality through our own experiences of the trauma that we and so many other women seeking asylum have to face living under immigration rules in the UK. The roadshow also shows how together we can give each oth...
Pragna Patel - FiLiA Conference 2019
November 07, 2019 10:29 - 29 minutes - 39.4 MBPragna Patel speaking at the FiLiA Conference 2019. SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS’ ‘BRADFORD CONNECTION’ AND THE POLITICS OF SIMULTANEOUS RESISTANCE: LESSONS FOR CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM Southall Black Sisters is 40 this year and FiLiA is organising its 6th feminist conference in Bradford. Against this backdrop, Pragna Patel, director of SBS, explores BME women’s experiences and political activism in the context of austerity, rising racism and religious fundamentalism and the attendant patriarchal ag...
#047 Pragna Patel - FiLiA Conference 2019
November 07, 2019 10:29 - 29 minutes - 39.4 MBPragna Patel speaking at the FiLiA Conference 2019. SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS’ ‘BRADFORD CONNECTION’ AND THE POLITICS OF SIMULTANEOUS RESISTANCE: LESSONS FOR CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM Southall Black Sisters is 40 this year and FiLiA is organising its 6th feminist conference in Bradford. Against this backdrop, Pragna Patel, director of SBS, explores BME women’s experiences and political activism in the context of austerity, rising racism and religious fundamentalism and the attendant patriarchal ag...