FiLiA

Dec 23 2024 204 ep. 51 mins 448
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FiLiA 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

The opinions expressed here represent the views of each woman. FiLiA does not necessarily endorse or support every woman's opinion, but we uphold women's rights to freedom of belief, thought and expression.

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

Dec 23 2024 53 mins  
“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

#209 Tackling Strangulation: Working Together to Save Lives

Dec 10 2024 43 mins  
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, w

#208 Women's Wednesday

Nov 04 2024 53 mins  
"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 thei

#207 Alternatives to Prison for Women

Oct 09 2024 44 mins  
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

#206 Introducing WAVE

Sep 29 2024 54 mins  
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 WAVEWAVE is a network of over 170 European women’s NGOs working towards prevention and prote

#205 Huge Legal Victory for Feminists Over Pimps in France

Aug 25 2024 54 mins  
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 pro

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

May 16 2024 73 mins  
"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 ZobninaIn 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 undermi

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

Apr 17 2024 40 mins  
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

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

Apr 04 2024 69 mins  
"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 BoultonThis podcast is about working class women and the theatre women make. It is a discussion between playwright and thea

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

Mar 14 2024 80 mins  
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 misogynis