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Following on from PrideCymru2022, where campaign group Get The L Out UK were told to leave by South Wales Police, we attended a ‘Future of Wales’ event. Here, we share the question we put to First Minister for Wales, Mark Drakeford, asking why Women in Wales in 2022 are frightened to speak about their sex-based rights.
We despair at the situation our sisters in Afghanistan now find themselves in and for this diary entry, we share these statements published by Women Defend Rojava and the European Network of Migrant Women. Read and learn about this complex invasion and how you can give your support.
On June 06, 2021, FiLiA was invited to BBC Radio London's The Breakfast Show with Jumoké Fashola to speak about Stonewall's lobbying efforts to erase the word "mother" from the policies of public bodies and organisations participating in their Workplace Equality Index.
This is where 'inclusivity' gets you...survivor, #Lesbian and volunteer with FiLiA jeered and yelled at 'f*ck off T*RF' at #Portsmouth protest (against Violence against Women). Read Sally Jackson’s account of the abuse she experienced at a #ReclaimTheseStreets event.
We’ve a new series about to start with the politically astute Radical Girlsss and have recent podcasts and blogs from Canada, Kenya, Afghanistan, Japan, France, Australia, Saudi, New Zealand, Spain and Cameroon.
FiLiA will be hosting more content amplifying the voices of Kurdish Women in the near future, and for those wishing to learn more, please follow Women Defend Rojava and Kongra Star.
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi!
The past few weeks we’ve had to disassemble FiLiA2020 due to the pandemic, moving everything to 2021 (put the 16th-17th October in your diary!).
FiLiA has always taken an unapologetic abolitionist view of the sex industry. Many times we have been challenged, usually via long emails from academics or shouty students holding placards (incidentally the same student population which is targeted by lobbyists for the sex trade due to their age and relative poverty).
A small number of the FiLiA team visited the Portsmouth Guildhall again to have another look around. We went along with our new arts lead, who came away very excited about the potential. We will be creating a venue and logistics page soon with all the information you need for your visit.
FiLiA was pleased to join a variety of specialist services outside Westminster Magistrates Court today to protest at how women are #SilencedByJustice. The event organised by Standing Together and Women and Girls Network included speeches from EVAW, Rights of Women, Centre for Women’s Justice and we left the final words to Natalie and those survivors who contact #TheCourtSaid.
FiLiA were pleased to bring together a group of experts to meet with new Domestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs about the family Court system. Nicole welcomed us at the Home Office and listened to the issues raised.
Thanks to the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign for their invitation to a round table discussion with the Coalition of Women for Peace.
FiLiA attended an event hosted by Portsmouth University Women and Gender Studies department. MP Rachel Reeves talked about her book ‘Women of Westminster’. We bumped into the indefatigable Solent WASPI Women. If you aren’t following their battle against state pension inequality - find out more on their website.
