1. Thread of FiLiA Guest Blogs and Podcasts so far in 2021.
A wide range of Women's voices on many topics. Take some time this weekend , if you can, to have a look.
Sisterhood and Solidarity!
FiLiA Team
2. LIFE AS A MIGRANT WORKER, MIGRANT WIFE AND MIGRANT ACTIVIST IN TAIWAN
By Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hà and Isabelle Cheng
‘To survive in this patriarchy, a Vietnamese wife has to become the decision-maker of her family. To do so, she has to work really hard.’ bit.ly/3qKdWPA
3. A FEMINIST VICTORY IN ARGENTINA: ABORTION IS LEGAL
By Marta Núñez
‘The undeniable truth was that having access to a safe abortion was a matter of socio-economic privilege more than anything.’ bit.ly/367UC6Z
4. VIVE LA FEMINISME: MARGEURITE STERN’S FIGHT AGAINST FEMICIDE
By Daisy Haynes
‘in spite of sustained campaigns to erase Marguerite from the halls of herstory, she continues the fight against femicide and other issues that remain close to her heart.’ bit.ly/3pbslns
5. #STOPTHEVIRUS: STOP DOMESTIC ABUSE
By Lidia Lidia
‘'#StopTheVirus' is a work involving three 48 sheet billboards hanging in Brighton, Christchurch and Portsmouth from the 9th to the 23rd of January.’ bit.ly/2Y4bKpx
6. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT VAWG AND DA STRATEGIES
By Southall Black Sisters, The Angelou Centre, Safety for Sisters Latin American Women’s Rights Service
‘please make clear at the outset that you disagree with the dual strategy approach' bit.ly/3a0qKKC
7. OVER 75 INDIGENOUS WOMEN URGE BIDEN TO STOP CLIMATE-WRECKING PIPELINES AND RESPECT TREATY RIGHTS
By Jessica Corbett
"man camps ...lead to increased rates of sexual violence and sexual trafficking of Indigenous women and girls." bit.ly/3iCJmnW
8. FROM THE HIJAB TO FREEDOM
By Rahila Gupta
'Whilst we must take a firm stance against anti-Muslim racism, we should be nuanced enough not to throw a substantial minority of women who have rejected the hijab under the bus.' bit.ly/2Np9DKV
9. #120 SUSAN HAWTHORNE - VORTEX: THE CRISIS OF PATRIARCHY
Interviewed by Sara
‘In this podcast, Susan asks readers whether we care about the safety of lesbians.’ bit.ly/3sQZXt6
10. #121 HOMELESS CHILD, SEX TRADE VICTIM, INSPIRING AUTHOR: MEET GRIZELDA GROOTBOOM
Interviewed by Luba
‘Prostitution is not the only option for destitute women… they don’t naturally have zero choices; men intentionally limit their options.’ bit.ly/366mmZE
11. #122 LEGAL ADVOCACY FOR RAPE SURVIVORS WITH DR OLIVIA SMITH
Interviewed by Gemma
‘But for those who did report it was really clear that they had felt really treated badly by the system.’ bit.ly/3qNYQs2
12. #123 DR JESSICA TAYLOR: WHY WOMEN ARE BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING
Part of the FiLiA Legacy Project Book Club
‘'She told the interviewer that her boyfriend had advised her that if she wore shorts under her skirt, no one could say she was asking for it.'’ bit.ly/399Uupu
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FiLiA had concerns when we met @ExtinctionR last year around lack of Female representation / focus
They informed us this would improve and that our politics were not an issue, as their focus was to bring groups together; even those of differing views
Lies
They clearly are practicing the politics of division, with (as usual) Females being the ones who are scapegoated and dismissed.
When the impact of the environmental destruction is most keenly felt by Women and Girls, this is a travesty.
A thread from @Blackbox666, one of our trustees looking at how according to its own words, @stonewalluk has changed its purpose, its priorities and its support for lesbians
I’ve been re-reading Stonewall 25 – The making of the Lesbian and Gay community in Britain, published in 1994 to celebrate 25 years of @stonewalluk At that time it was an organisation that I supported, and I felt supported me as a fairly newly out lesbian.
This thread quotes from that book, what Stonewall itself used to say about lesbians, same sex attraction and no matter how much they try to rewrite it, their own history. The most obvious to notice is that of in ‘94 it was an organisation proudly and specifically for LGB people.
1️⃣ Of concern: '... commissioners appeared to be commissioning gender-neutral services in breach of the public sector equality duty' and “that will not enable the aims of equality set out in the Equality Act to be full achieved.”