FiLiA 2019

19th - 20th October
The Bradford Hotel
Hall Ings
Bradford
BD1 5SH

Your Invitation To FiLiA 2019

Calling all feminist campaigners, activists, artists, academics and revolutionaries. Calling all women!

We are the daughters of the women who came before us; women who fought for our children, our bodies, ourselves. Their legacy challenges us to keep fighting for the liberation of all women and girls today.

The FiLiA 2019 conference brings together sisters taking down patriarchy, fighting injustices across the world, fighting violence towards women, pay disparity, discrimination against refugees, racism, classism. No topic is taboo. All are welcome.

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The Bradford Hotel
Hall Ings
Bradford
BD1 5SH

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Celebrating International Women’s Day today. FiLiA sends sisterhood and solidarity to women all over the world. Together we will smash the patriarchy. . . . . . #IWD2019 #balanceforbetter #balanceforbetteriwd2019 #march8 #8march #womanism blackfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #neverthelesswepersist #asianfeminist #muslimfeminist #middleeasternfeminist #metoo #desi #womensliberationmovement #womensrights #feministasfuck #filia2019 #globalrights #equalrightsforwomen #smashpatriarchy #feministsbelike #feministsunite #feministbadass #
“It’s been a very difficult thing being a lead singer of a rock band looking like me and it still is. I have to say it’s been a fight and it will always be a fight. That fight is interesting and that fight drives you and makes you want to work harder. I want to say to any new artists out there, man you’re in for a ride. It’s not going to be easy, it’s not supposed to be easy, it’s the friggin’ music business and you’re women, and some of you are black and some of you are gay like me. You’ve got to keep moving forward, keep striving for everything you want to be. Keep being very, very individual and doing exactly what you want.” Double-platinum selling frontwoman of Skunk Anansie -Skin, receiving the Inspirational Artist award at the @musicweekinsta Women in Music Awards, November 2018. . . . . . #leabianswag #lesbianswagger #rockstar #skunkanansie #frontwoman #metoo #desi #womensliberationmovement #womensrights #feministasfuck #globalrights #equalrightsforwomen #smashpatriarchy #feministsbelike #feministsunite #feministbadass #lesbianpride #lesbianmemes #lesbianartist #gaywoman #pride #blackgaypride
Celebrating our Lesbian and Bisexual sisters this month. Marion Barbara “Joe” Carstairs (1900 - 1993). Eccentric, bold and unselfconscious she was in her element in boats. Heiress, champion speedboat racer, Ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, owner of an all female-staffed cab company, lover of movie stars including Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo and ruler of a small Kingdom -Whale Cay in the Caribbean. • • • • • #lesbian #bisexual #queer #loveislove #pride #bi #genderqueer #homosexual #equality #gaypride #lovewins #lesbianpride #lesbians #filiafemme #joecarstairs #marionbarbarajoecarstairs #speedqueen #lesbianswag #lesbianpride #lesbianstyle #humanrights
Lepa Mladenovic was one of the highlights at this years conference in Manchester. Be a part of FiLiA 2019. Tickets are live for Bradford now. Link in Profile. . . . #ticketsonsalenow #blackfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #neverthelesswepersist #asianfeminist #muslimfeminist #middleeasternfeminist #metoo #desi #womensliberationmovement #womensrights #feministasfuck #filia2019 #globalrights #equalrightsforwomen #smashpatriarchy #feministsbelike #feministsunite #feministbadass #bradford
Tickets Are Now LIVE. Link in Profile. . . . #ticketsonsalenow blackfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #neverthelesswepersist #asianfeminist #muslimfeminist #middleeasternfeminist #metoo #desi #womensliberationmovement #womensrights #feministasfuck #filia2019 #globalrights #equalrightsforwomen #smashpatriarchy #feministsbelike #feministsunite #feministbadass #bradford
Day 16 of #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence. From Fiona Broadfoot, Survivor of Child Exploitation and CEO of Build A Girl, whose panel at our October conference was heartbreakingly painful and riotously celebratory in equal measure. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign runs from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, and is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. . . . 16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #balancetonporc
Day 15 of #16daysofactivism -we give you Jessica Eaton of Victim Focus, another of our amazing conference speakers this October. Her mission has been to call out victim blaming in all areas of violence against women but particularly child sexual exploitation. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc #cse #victimfocus
Karen Ingala-Smith, CEO of nia, a London-based domestic and sexual violence charity working to end violence against women, and in her spare time, documenting Women’s deaths at the hands of men @countdeadwomen. . . , #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo #TimesUp #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc #countingdeadwomen #domesticviolence #survivor
In 2017, when allegations began to reach the mainstream media, Lupita Nyong’o was unable to avoid the memories resurfacing of her dealings with Weinstein. She wrote in her op-ed for the New York Times, “I have felt sick in the pit of my stomach. I have felt such a flare of rage that the experience I recount below was not a unique incident with me, but rather part of a sinister pattern of behavior.” #MeToo spreading virally in October 2017, as a hashtag on social media demonstrated the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. #16days Is an International Campaign challenging violence against women and girls. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #balancetonporc
Over #16days we have been amplifying the voices of women committed to challenging the an endemic global culture of violence towards women and girls. Today we quote FiLiA trustee Sally Jackson’s recent speech at The House of Lords, where she spoke about how the various forms of male violence against women fit the definition of torture and how as a state we are failing in our international obligations. Her full speech is reproduced on the BLOG section on our website. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #balancetonporc
The time for change is here and now. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc
Day 10 of #16daysofactivism - an International campaign, challenging the global epidemic of violence against women and girls. . . . #colourmeorange #endvawg #HearMeToo #HearMeToo #orangetheworld #endvawg #metoo #TimesUp #NotOneMore#BalanceTonPorc #Niunamenos #vawg #orangetheworldin16days #16days #believeher#sayhername #diannefienstien
Day 9 of #16daysofactivism -an international campaign to challenge the global epidemic of Gender based violence. FiLiA trustee Julian Norman spoke on trafficking and immigration law at the inaugural CEASE conference -the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation this November. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc #CEASE #trafficking
Day 8 of 16 Days of Activism challenging the global epidemic of violence against women and girls. This October Kendra Houseman took part on the panel ‘Failed by the State’ at our conference, and shared her life and her advocacy surrounding young women who find themselves as teenagers exploited in gangs or groomed into prostitution and are regarded by the state and social services as authors of their own misfortune. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo #TimesUp #Niunamenos #NotOneMore #BalanceTonPorc #cse #grooming #gangculture #childexploitation
Day 7 of 16 Days of Activism challenging Gender-Based violence. The time for change is here and now. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc
Day 6 of the International campaign 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. At our conference in October Inge Klein spoke about Neoliberalism and Patriarchy. . . . #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence #16days2018 #colourmeorange #orangetheworldin16days #orangetheworld #endvawg #vawg #domesticabuseawareness #nonstatetorture #fgm #cse #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #patriarchy #countingdeadwomen #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc #hearmetoo🧡🌎🧡

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FiLiA Mission:
To host a world-renowned annual conference, bringing together women from all around the globe
to exchange ideas, share experiences, and network. To amplify the voices of women. 
To advance sex equality by showcasing activists, academics, artists, NGOs and their work. 
To promote human rights, especially women's rights. 
To promote women artists, feminist and activist art, and to give voice to minority and disadvantaged women through art.