Your Invitation To FiLiA 2018

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 2018 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.

Lighthouse

About The Venue

The event is going to be held at: 

The Lighthouse Venue 12 Centenary Park, Coronet Way, Eccles, Salford, Manchester
M50 1RE.

Full details can be found here.

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11 October is the International Day of the The Girl. In the UK Girls are being let down by the state which exists to protect them. Over and over again. From Taunton to Rochdale, Rotherham to Oxford, girls are being groomed, trafficked and exploited by gangs. Then they’re often punished for their own exploitation. This panel will look at how this has happened and what we can do to change it. With Fiona Broadfoot from Build A Girl, Kendra Houseman from Out of the Shadows and ZOe from Reign. On Saturday afternoon. Have you bought your tickets yet? #ticketsonsalenow #cse #dayofthegirl #gangculture #countylines #traffiking #intersectionalfeminism #neverthelesswepersist #asianfeminist #muslimfeminist #middleeasternfeminist #metoo #desi #womensrights #feministasfuck #filia2018 #globalrights #equalrightsforwomen #smashpatriarchy #feministsbelike #sisterhood #blacksisterhood #blackfeminist #womban #yoniverse #womensupportingwomen #parenting #sufragettes #patriarchy
Women across America are expressing their gratitude and solidarity with Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who was brave enough to share her testimony about her experience of sexual assault with the entire world at the recent U.S. Supreme Court Hearings. Blasey Ford first brought her allegations against Brett Kavanagh, in the form of a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein and now actions and expressions of gratitude are flowing in the same way via snail mail. Whilst Brett Kavanagh has been confirmed to the highest court, Blasey Ford is sill unable to return home, still receiving ‘unending’ death threats, and its going to be quite some time until she is able to live at home again, or without security guards. “My greatest fears have been realised -and the reality has been far worse than what I expected.” If you are moved, by the events of the last few weeks, if you are incensed by President Trump’s national apology to Kavanagh, if you are also a survivor of sexual assault, if you want to tell her ‘we hear you, we believe you’, you might consider writing your own postcard of support. Thank you letters can be sent to her c/o Palo Alto University, 1791 Arastradero Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94304. And if you want to take action and mobilise to shake some serious stuff up, then buy a ticket to the Filia conference, in Manchester, October 20-21. Link in profile. . . . #feminist #feminism #100percent #feministconference #FILIA2018 #believewomen #cbf #christinablaseyford #kavanaugh #drblaseyford #survivors #sexualassault #fordvskavanaugh #blackactivist #middleeastfeminism #asianfeminist #blackfeminism #vawg #resist #andshepersisted #metoo #filia2018 #madashellandimnotgoingtotakeitanymore
This years conference will be in Salford, Manchester, the home of the Working Class Movement Library. It documents amongst other things, the stories of ordinary women who contributed to the suffrage movement and through their struggle helped to win the right for (some) women to vote 100 years ago. What a great time and a place to gather! Have you bought your tickets yet?! . . . #ticketsonsalenow #blackfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #neverthelesswepersist #asianfeminist #muslimfeminist #middleeasternfeminist #metoo #desi #womensliberationmovement #womensrights #feministasfuck #filia2018 #equalrightsforwomen #smashpatriarchy #feministsbelike #feministsunite #feministbadass #sisterhood #blacksisterhood #blackfeminist #blackfemme #workingclassstruggle #womensupportingwomen #Palenstine #sufragettes #neoliberalism #classstruggle #woc #patriarchy
Civil Rights activist Ruby Bridges Hall was the first African American child to desegregate a school in the South in America. In 1960 a six year old Ruby Bridges walked to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans surrounded by a team of U.S. Marshals. All day long angry white parents removed their children from the school as Ruby and her mother waited in the office. The crowd was larger and louder at the end of the day as news of Ruby’s attendance spread. For a year, each morning a group of 40 or more women shouted racist threats, threw things, as Ruby was escorted to school. Bridges spent her first year at school the sole pupil -all the white children having been removed by their parents and taught by Barbara Henry, the only teacher willing to have her as a student. She has just turned 64. She started the The Ruby Bridges Foundation in 1999 to promote respect and equal treatment to all races and difference. “Our schools are still not equal. I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants. Once you go through an experience like we did, it either makes you stronger or it will devour you. The Parkland students and so many students across the country today have been able to handle something so difficult and turn it around for good. What we see on display today is the power of children, and we should be proud, because our future doesn’t seem as bleak as it did.” . . . . #integration #mission #purpose #desegregation #racism #civilrights #rubybridgeshall #rubybridges #neworleans #williamfranzelementary #blackgirlmagic #BlackGirlsAreMagic #Iknownow #ToTheGirls #classstruggle #education #schooling #segregation #blackfeminism #activists #blackactivist #brownvsboardofeducation
At this years conference Dr Ava Kanyeredzi will explore Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse. Through the frame of silence. Being silenced or staying silent. Missing opportunities for support. Kanyeredzi explores how professionals might better support Black women who access services. Dr Ava Kanyeredzi is lecturer on the Forensic, Clinical and Community Psychology programmes at the University of East London. . . . #vawg #violence #race #raceculturegender #Africanwomen #africanandcarribean #abuse #blackwomenviolence #blackgirlmagic #afrocarribean #blackgirlsaremagic #tothegirls #avakanyeredzi #blackfemale #blackfemaleexperience #feministconference #feminist #blackfeminist #filia2018 #bame #survivors #psychologists
S U B M I S S I O N S W A N T E D. We would love to see work that is based on your interpretation of the theme of suffrage, emancipation and women’s rights. Go to our website FIliart Filiart100 to apply. To be exhibited at this years conference in Greater Manchester in October. . . . . #manchester #feministconference #entriesstillopen #submissions #suffragette #suffrage #vote100 #filiart100 #filiart2018 #femaleartist #feministart #emancipation #womensrights #expression #art #artwork #emergingfemaleartistprize #activism #feministbadassery
“Every situation is a blues song waiting to happen.” This week is the 7th anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death. During her lifetime her substance abuse, eating disorder and struggles with relationships and the pressures of fame often overshadowed her music. Having suffered from bulimia since childhood, the impact of the bingeing and purging on her heart, combined with excessive drinking, was too much for her body to handle. She was only 27. But she was a true musician, a biting lyricist with a rare intuition as a vocalist. A lover of jazz, 60’s girl groups, hip-hop and doo-wop, she had a unique style; extreme pathos combined with absolute sass. The album Back to Black, sold 12m copies and won numerous Grammys. “The thunderbolt strikes the head, the pen scribbles furiously, and that’s the song,” Mark Ronson recalled how she wrote lyrics. After meeting her, he came up with the music for 'Back to Black' the same night. “I was inspired by her and the music she wanted to make. I wanted to impress her.” Winehouse wrote lyrics and melody on the spot. “When she wrote, there was no editing. It came out like, this is the truth and this is how it’s gonna stay.” 'He's fierce in my dreams, seizing my guts He floats me with dread Soaked in soul He swims in my eyes by the bed Pour myself over him Moon spilling in And I wake up alone.' . . . . . . #filiafemme #amywinehouse #markronson #legend #diva #lyricist #musician #vocalist #jazzsinger #artist #bulimia #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth #addiction #vulnerability #power #whatisitaboutmen #backtoblack #loveisalosinggame #doowop #girlgroups #beehive #singersongwriterartist #imwithher #yesallwomen #tothegirls
Gail Dines has been described as one of the leading anti-porn scholars and activists in the world. Her 2010 book ‘PORNLAND; how porn has hijacked our sexuality’ examined how the lives of men and women have been shaped by porn culture. Dines puts forward the view that young men and boys, now continually exposed to pornography, which is largely violent towards women, has not only a destructive impact on the women and girls they have sexual interactions with, but is impeding mens’s ability to pursue and form intimate relationships. She also voices that the prevalence of cruelty in highly accessible modern pornography, denigrates the position of women in society. The book has been translated into 5 languages. A founder member of Stop Porn Culture and Culture Reframed, Dines is not content to limit herself to the world of academia, she aims to raise awareness by developing educational material and engage in speaking extensively at conferences, debates, TV appearances internationally. Her overarching aim is to “be a constant thorn in the side of the porn industry and grow the only health-based organisation in the USA that builds resilience and resistance to porn culture.” . . . . . #filiafemme #stopporn #endporn #pornharms #pornland #feminism #femimist #sexualliberation #womensrights #stoppornculture #culturereframed #activist #vawg #domesticviolence #gaildines #pornculture #education #sexed #consent #sexuality #SREnow #instawomen #girl #school #boys #sexualhealth #sexedwomen #legend #womensupportingwomen
Economic Abuse and the effects on Women. Just one of the topics covered at this years conference 20-21 October. Use the link in our bio to get your tickets. . . . . . #womensmarch #tothegirls #feminist #feminism #feministconference #salford #metoomovement2018 #vawg #everydaysexism #womensrights #domesticviolence #endviolenceagainstwomen #resist #blackfeminist #muslimfeminist #middleeasternfeminist #girl #women #empoweringwomen #yesallwomen #imwithher
Before Hillary, there was Shirley. An icon and a pioneer who deserves greater credit and than history afforded her, Shirley Chisholm was a trailblazer for her generation. A woman of many firsts - the first African American congresswoman. The first African American to run for president. The first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Her 1972 campaign slogan was "Unbought and Unbossed". She told supporters at the launch, "I stand before you today, to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates, simply because he is not white or because she is not a male," She died in 2005, aged 80. In 2015 President Obama awarded her posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Despite her many achievements Chisholm is still not a household name in the US. . . . . . #filiafemme #ShirleyChisholm #ToTheGirls #IknowNow #feminism #blackfeminism #resist #womensmarch #unboughtandunbossed #democrat #womenandthewhitehouse #feminist #womeninpolitics #womeninpoliticsmatter #womeninpoliticswednesday #presidential #askhertostand
Assessments and Perspectives 1 year on. 20-21 October. Use the link in our profile to buy your tickets. . . . . . #metoo #metoomovement #metoomovement2017 #metoomovement2018 #feministconference #feminist #feminism #blackfeminist #muslimfeminist #desifeminist #middleeasternfeminist #imwithher #pussygrabsback #yesallwomen #tothegirls #timesup #fem2 #resist #womensmarch #iamanastywoman #everydaysexism
“Everything about our enterprise was new -a women’s union that was not fighting against an employer; a bank whose capital was made up of thousands of tiny deposits; a clientele that could neither read nor write, nor sign their name; and bank loans given to poor women with no assets to their name. And yet SEWA Bank proved that poor women are indeed bankable.” Ela Bhatt, the ‘gentle revolutionary’, has dedicated her life to improving the lives of India’s poorest and most oppressed women workers. She founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in 1972, a trade union for women workers in India’s huge informal sector; rag-pickers, hawkers, farmers, handcart pullers, domestic workers -who make up 93% of the female labour force and yet have never enjoyed the same rights and security as those in formal employment. Bhatt went on to found India’s first women’s bank, was nominated a member of Indian Parliament, invited by Nelson Mandela to become a member of The Elders, the international organisation of statesmen and human rights advocates, and is field testing the "100 miles principle" advocating that consumers and producers can and should be brought close together so that all primary needs are met within a 100 mile radius. . . . . #ghandian #SEWA #gujarat #selfemployedwomensassociation #desi_diaries #selfreliance #ahmedabad #elaben #elabhatt #anubandh #100milesprinciple #sustainability #india #theelders #anubandh #100milecommunity #peaceactivist #globalleader #filiafemme
One of many topics at Filia 2018, October 20-21, bringing women together from around the world to exchange ideas, share expereinces and network. Have you bought your ticlkets yet? . . . . . #feminism #secularism #filia2018 #manchester #networking #ideas #womensupprtingwomen #humanrights #equalrights #feminist #blackfeminist #muslimfeminist #asianfeminist #metoo #fem2 #timesup #AskHerToStand #sisterhood #conference #gloabalfeminism
"I had always told myself people like me don’t run for office.” Twenty-six-year-old phd student Mariah Parker was elected commissioner of GA district 2 in Athens, Georgia, USA in June 2018. Photos of Parker's swearing-in ceremony, during which she raised her right fist, her left hand on an autobiography of Malcom X, went viral. Parker, a progressive, ran her campaign advocating for affordable transportation and housing, economic justice, and an end to discrimination. “You can't wait for a hero to show up. If you see injustice and you see a need for someone to take action, it has to be you.” . . . . . #feminism #activism #blackfeminism #blackgirlmagic #BlackGirlsAreMagic #ImWithHer #AskHerToStand #Vote100 #processsions2018 #womensrights #humanrights #mariahparker #blackexcellence #blackachievement #blackandproud #SeatsForWomen #Politics #Women #equality #YesAllWomen #fem2 #equality #discrimination #womensmarch #progressive #resist #filiafemme
SHARING OUR HERSTORY: A FILIA MEET-UP FiLiA is happy to invite you to join us for an evening of socialising and sharing our herstories on Thursday 21st June, Drystone Chambers, 35 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH, 19.00 - 21.00. Our FiLiA meet-up is a free event, part of the Equali-teas celebrations for the 90 years since the Representation of the People Act 1928 gave all men and women over the age of 21 the equal right to vote. Equali-teas have been developed by the UK Parliament’s Education and Engagement Service. You can find more information at: . . . . . #EqualiTeas #herstory #feminist #vote100 #suffragist #blackfeminist #muslimfeminist #asianfeminist #desi #votesandvoices #metoo

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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. 
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