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FiLiA

FiLiA

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'I asked her: do you hate men? She said: ’This thing about hating men is really more about standing up to male dominance WITHOUT apology. Meet Andrea Dworkin! In this episode, Roberta Pyzel discusses her documentary DWORKIN: a close-up portrait of the brilliant, compassionate, and courageous feminist icon. Dworkin’s lifelong commitment to elevating the voices of women who suffer under the brutal domination of patriarchy infuses the film with passionate intensity. She continues to inspire us ...

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'I asked her: do you hate men? She said: ’This thing about hating men is really more about standing up to male dominance WITHOUT apology. Meet Andrea Dworkin! In this episode, Roberta Pyzel discusses her documentary DWORKIN: a close-up portrait of the brilliant, compassionate, and courageous feminist icon. Dworkin’s lifelong commitment to elevating the voices of women who suffer under the brutal domination of patriarchy infuses the film with passionate intensity. She continues to inspire us ...

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#213 ANDREA DWORKIN: On Fire!

'I asked her: do you hate men? She said: ’This thing about hating men is really more about standing up to male dominance WITHOUT apology. Meet Andrea Dworkin! In this episode, Roberta Pyzel discusses her documentary DWORKIN: a close-up portrait of the brilliant, compassionate, and courageous feminist icon. Dworkin’s lifelong commitment to elevating the voices of women who suffer under the brutal domination of patriarchy infuses the film with passionate intensity. She continues to inspire us ...

2 months ago

32 minutes

FiLiA

#212 Healing from Non State Torture

'It's important to say that even today we know that children are in the court systems and their voices are not being heard in a way that is respected. If you can't name something, you can't heal from it.' In this episode Sally Jackson FiLiA talks to Jeanne Sarson, Co founder Non State Torture and Linda McDonald Co founder of Non State Torture . Linda and Jeanne have pioneered the work on non state torture, defining it, understanding it and most importantly helping Women to heal from it. ...

4 months ago

54 minutes

FiLiA

#211 Explaining the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention – What Every International Family Needs to Know

"What it has meant to me is that I haven't seen my children for over 10 years." In this episode, Anita Gera explains the work of Hague Explained, a registered non-profit organisation that provides customised workshops to help internationally mobile families understand the legal and emotional risks of relocating children across borders. Anita also shares the deeply personal trauma she experienced—an ordeal that ultimately led her to co-found the organisation. Her story highli...

6 months ago

56 minutes

FiLiA

#210 La Leche League: The Mother-to-Mother Breastfeeding Organisation Captured by Gender Ideology

“I don't ever want to make the mothers have to be the ones to gatekeep for who comes in. I'm going to do that for them.” La Leche League is a charity that was set up to offer mother-to-mother breastfeeding support and to protect the natural course of breastfeeding and the mother-baby dyad. Ruth, Rej, and Loreto all had their accreditation as LLL breastfeeding counsellors removed by LLL International for “breaches of the LLL Code of Conduct” and “actions that led to the public discrediting o...

10 months ago

53 minutes

FiLiA

#209 Tackling Strangulation: Working Together to Save Lives

We are increasingly hearing about cases of strangulation of women, both in relationships and, thanks to porn culture, increasingly in our sex lives. In this episode, Sally Jackson, FiLiA Trustee; Bernie Ryan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Institute for Addressing Strangulation (IFAS); and Marianne McGowan, Survivor Liaison and Research Worker for IFAS, discuss the dangers, who it affects, and what we can do to raise awareness of the realities of the danger it presents. Please n...

11 months ago

43 minutes

FiLiA

#208 Women's Wednesday

"I don't feel that loneliness anymore. I feel part of something." After attending FiLiA in Portsmouth, one woman returned to her workplace determined to set up a women’s group. Two years later, the group has grown in size and confidence. In this interview, Kiri Tunks discusses with the women how they set up the group, what they do in their meetings, and how it has transformed their relationships and lives. Episode Note: When there is a large group in the room, issues with sound quali...

1 year ago

53 minutes

FiLiA

#207 Alternatives to Prison for Women

Does prison work for Women? What alternatives are being tried and how successful are they - what do we even mean by 'success'? "The short answer to How many Women are in prison, is far too many! The biggest challenges are funding and investment" In this episode FiLiA trustee Sally Jackson, Dr April Smith, a criminologist and psychologist, and Rhona Hotchkiss, ex-governor of Cornton Vale Women's prison, discuss the issues for Women caught up in the criminal justice system designed for men.

1 year ago

44 minutes

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#206 Introducing WAVE

FiLiA is a member of Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) In this podcast we find out more about WAVE's work. Sally Jackson interviews, Stephanie Futter Orel Executive Director WAVE, Branislava Aradjan Project and Youth ambassador Coordinator and Beverly Mtui, Communications Coordinator of WAVE WAVE is a network of over 170 European women’s NGOs working towards prevention and protection of women and children from violence. "We build the capacity of our members, advocate for better legislati...

1 year ago

54 minutes

FiLiA

#205 Huge Legal Victory for Feminists Over Pimps in France

In this episode Luba Fein, FiLiA volunteer, Alyssa Ahrabare, Advocacy Manager for European Network of Migrant Women and Hema Sibi, advocacy coordinator for The Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution discuss a huge legal victory in France. The European Court of Human Rights upholds France's right to ban the purchase of prostitution. France enforces a law that aims to abolish prostitution, while helping its victims exit. A group of individuals, supported by pro-prostitution organisations,...

1 year ago

54 minutes

FiLiA

#204 Beyond the Rhetoric: The European Council and the Misrepresentation of Sex Industry Exploitation

"It is not our job to question individual choices of women in prostitution. We must examine the system and the context in which women's choices take place" Anna Zobnina In February 2024, Dunja Mijatović, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, published a statement entitled "Protecting the human rights of sex workers". It was a problematic statement that undermined the efforts of hundreds of feminist organisations and dozens of prostitution survivor organisations to eradi...

1 year ago

1 hour 13 minutes

FiLiA

#203 #HerNameWasChloeHolland - A Mother’s campaign following her daughter’s suicide

Tragically Chloe felt her only escape from the coercive and controlling behaviour she was subjected to was to end her own life. Her Mum Sharon wants the perpetrator held to account for her death and so is campaigning for a change in the law so that he could be charged with manslaughter by coercive or controlling behaviour. Hear about how they have developed their grassroot campaign and how you can help. Petition please sign and share: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648948 Link to...

1 year ago

40 minutes

FiLiA

#202 Women's Ways, Women's Plays - A story of working class women's theatre

"I just hope that in capturing these stories that we've done something to archive working class, women's experience and that it'll be there if people wanna watch it or read it. We've done our bit and we can use the methods to look at any issue we want" - Paula Boulton This podcast is about working class women and the theatre women make. It is a discussion between playwright and theatre director Paula Boulton (67) and three members of her Corby Women's Theatre Group. Betty MacPherson (7...

1 year ago

1 hour 9 minutes

FiLiA

#201 Sarah Ditum Exposes the ‘TOXIC’ Nature of Pop Culture and Charts A Way Forward

Raquel Rosario Sanchez and Sarah Ditum discuss the tropes and stereotypes about women in the public eye and how they reflect on the wider struggles women face in society. Ditum's clever analysis dissects how patriarchy operates to ensure that women, including those who are extremely privileged, are used as examples to venerate and later on to destroy in order to appease a misogynist system. Buy Sarah Ditum's Toxic from the FiLiA Book Shop

1 year ago

1 hour 20 minutes

FiLiA

#200 Palestine and Israel: Women and the movement for peace

This interview took place on January 25th 2024 and permission was given to share this week. "We don't want to live in this violence, in this conflict anymore. We want to end it. And as Yael always said, we shouldn't, you know, keep managing the conflict. We should resolve it. And this is why we are raising our voice and we want the international support for this [and we are raising] our voices to stop what is going on." Women have always been at the forefront of the peace movement. FiLiA re...

1 year ago

1 hour 9 minutes

FiLiA

#199 Widows for Peace with Margaret Owen OBE

In this episode, Margaret Owen OBE founder of Widows for Peace (WPD) highlights the plight of the world’s dark secret of marginalised ‘invisible’ widows: a vast and growing number of women of all ages living in extreme poverty, forgotten, abused and neglected internationally, nationally at grassroots levels. Featuring: Lily Thapa, Founder of WHR/SWg (women for human rights single women's group), Nepal Jacqueline Musugani, Coordinator IFESIDI (women living in disastrous circumstances), East C...

1 year ago

1 hour 1 minute

FiLiA

#198 Speak Out Survivors

"It's not rocket science... you investigate the suspect, not the victim," – Harriet Wistrich. In this episode, Suzy Angus and Emma Bryson, survivors of sexual violence and founders of Speak Out Survivors, meet Dr Oona Brooks-Hay (Reader in Criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow) and Harriet Wistrich (Director of the Centre for Women's Justice) to discuss the difficulties in Scotland for victims and survivors to access justice. In partic...

2 years ago

52 minutes

FiLiA

#197 Live From FiLiA 2023 Glasgow

"One of the things I love about the feminist movement is that we're each other's catalysts. We are always pushing each other to go for our dreams and to maybe try that project that we're thinking of, make it a reality somehow." Dr Bec Wonders reports from FiLiA 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. Listen to interviews with an array of attendees and participants at the largest grassroots feminist conference in Europe. Over 1000 women, including 150 speakers from 32 different countries, gathered to talk...

2 years ago

50 minutes

FiLiA

#196 Hadley Freeman On Life Beyond Anorexia

Hadley Freeman On Life Beyond Anorexia and Breaking Out of the Good Girl Socialisation In this episode, Hadley Freeman discusses her latest book 'Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia' with FiLiA spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez, in which she shares a harrowing first-person account of her decades-long struggle with mental illness. She addresses the broader, structural issues driving disordered eating among girls and young women and what society can do to improve the situatio...

2 years ago

56 minutes

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#195 Consuelo Rivera Fuentes at FiLiA 2019

"When they arrested me, I thought it was because I was protesting with other teachers, and students. But later, I realized that they targeted me and other women because I am a lesbian." We are paying tribute to Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, who has passed away, by sharing her talk at FiLiA 2019 on her experiences of pain through torture and imprisonment in Dictatorial Chile. "Very little of feminist scholarship on the body addresses torture of women, and still less, torture of lesbians. T...

2 years ago

19 minutes

FiLiA

#194 Own My Life - a feminist recovery programme for domestic abuse survivors

"Creating this women only space, we're creating a journey for women to be honouring each other, celebrating each other, and that's something that women haven't had much time with." Sally Jackson leads a discussion between Natalie Collins, creator of the Own My Life Course, Catherine Mc Quarrie from Border Women's Aid, and Danielle, survivor and facilitator, explaining the principles of the Own My Life course and why recovery spaces for domestic abuse survivors need to be feminist and women o...

2 years ago

48 minutes