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Exciting Outcome of FiLiA Panel on Non-State Torture (NST)

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The naming of non-State torture is crucial for women's healing"At FiLiA2025 , Linda MacDonald, Mariane da Cunha, Elizabeth Gordon and ...

#213 ANDREA DWORKIN: On Fire!

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'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 A...

#212 Healing from Non State Torture

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'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 ...

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

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 "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 Hag...

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

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“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 ...

#209 Tackling Strangulation: Working Together to Save Lives

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 We are increasingly hearing about cases of strangulation of women, both in relationships and, thanks to porn culture, increasingly in our sex lives....

#208 Women's Wednesday

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 "I don't feel that loneliness anymore. I feel part of something."After attending FiLiA in Portsmouth, one woman returned to her workp...

#207 Alternatives to Prison for Women

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does prison work for Women? What alternatives are being tried and how successful are they - what do we even mean by 'success'? "The sho...

#206 Introducing WAVE

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

#205 Huge Legal Victory for Feminists Over Pimps in France

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Luba Fein, FiLiA volunteer, Alyssa Ahrabare, Advocacy Manager for European Network of Migrant Women and Hema Sibi, advocacy coordinato...

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

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"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 choi...

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

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

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

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I just hope that in capturing these stories that we've done something to archive working class, women's experience and that it'll...

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

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

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

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

#199 Widows for Peace with Margaret Owen OBE

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Margaret Owen OBE founder of Widows for Peace (WPD) highlights the plight of the world’s dark secret of marginalised ‘invisible’...

#198 Speak Out Survivors

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"It's not rocket science... you investigate the suspect, not the victim," – Harriet Wistrich.In this episode, Suzy Angus and Emma Bry...

#197 Live From FiLiA 2023 Glasgow

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"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 ...

#196 Hadley Freeman On Life Beyond Anorexia

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hadley Freeman On Life Beyond Anorexia and Breaking Out of the Good Girl SocialisationIn this episode, Hadley Freeman discusses her latest book '...

#195 Consuelo Rivera Fuentes at FiLiA 2019

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"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 ...

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

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Creating this women only space, we're creating a journey for women to be honouring each other, celebrating each other, and that's some...

#193 Laetitia Ky Revolutionises the Feminist Politics of Afro Hair and Art

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We are delighted to interview Ivorian artist, social commentator and author Laetitia Ky on the FiLiA Podcast. She is a political artist known for her ...

#192 Faika El-Nagashi's Intersectional Politics are Here to Stay

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Austrian Parliamentarian Faika El-Nagashi joins FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez to discuss the intersectional nature of her multi-faceted wo...

#191 Discussion about the book Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa-Marie Taylor and Yagmur Uygarkizi interview authors Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald about their best-selling book, Women Unsilenced Our Refusal...

#190 A Revindication of Middle-Aged Women with Victoria Smith, author of ‘HAGS’

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feminist author Victoria Smith discusses her first book, ‘Hags’, about the demonisation of middle-aged women with FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario...

#189 Sex Trade Survivor's Fight to Shut Down an Escort Website

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"We all understand what unwanted sex is; another word for that is rape. We all understand that, but when there's money involved, people sudd...

#188 Woman! Life! Freedom! The Women-led Revolution

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born campaigner and writer living in the UK. Since the Islamic regime of Iran’s killing of Mahsa Amini on 16 September ...

#187 Julie Bindel and Jalna Hanmer: "Men need to be held accountable for violence against women"

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jalna Hanmer is a feminist of 70 years. She was responsible for bringing women's studies to UK academia and was a founder of the National Women&a...

#186 The Sex Buyers' Secrets Revealed

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"When you normalize paid rape in prostitution, it becomes confusing to an entire culture, even for [the] government, to define what consent is an...

#185 Parenting After Coercive Control - an American Perspective

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Christine Cocchiola talks to FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson about the impact of coercive control on children and the Mother-Child relationship and how...

#184 Sex Robots and Woman Hating with Caitlin Roper

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are very pleased to share this interview by Raquel Rosario Sanchez with Caitlin Roper, author of “Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating” which has...

#183 Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers' Lives with Emma Katz

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Emma Katz, a leading expert in coercive control and its impact on children is interviewed by FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson.A must for anyone working ...

#182 Mother's Rights: Challenging the Family Court

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"A lot of the messages around domestic abuse is that you just leave, right? So you just walk out that door and everything's fine. Well, that...

#181 “Deep Deception”: When the Police Targets Women

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"It was shocking. I felt a great sense of betrayal by the Police. How could they possibly do that to me? What right have they got? I've paid...

#180 Rosie Kay Is Here To Stay

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I didn't know what personal persecution felt like before. I could imagine, of course. But there is something very physical about those expe...

#179 “He Chose Porn Over Me” with author Melinda Tankard Reist

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez speaks to author and activist Melinda Tankard Reist about pornography’s desensitisation of male sexuality ...

#178 Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse

30 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"It's a double taboo - as a society, we don't talk about money and we don't talk about abuse. So when we are talking about economi...

#177 Protecting Children is Not Bigotry: Vindication for Stephanie Davis-Arai!

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, FiLiA spokeswoman, Raquel Rosario Sánchez, talks to Stephanie Davies-Arai, the Founder and Director of Transgen...

#176 Jane Clare Jones Does Not Suffer Misogynist Fools Gladly

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Raquel Rosario Sanchez chats with the feminist philosopher and activist Jane Clare Jones who published her...

#175 The Women Lost Everything: The Hague Convention in Australia

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lawyer and academic Gina Masterton became an activist when her sister had a Hague case brought against her. That story has a (rare) happy ending but G...

#174 The Hague Convention & Domestic Violence: Fleeing to Safety – Returned to Abuse

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, lawyer and activist Sudha Shetty talks to us about the often desperate consequences of The Hague Convention for ...

#173 Dr Alyson McGregor: Author of Sex Matters

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are delighted to speak with Dr Alyson McGregor, a women’s health pioneer who has brought the concept of sex differences in the delivery of acute ...

#171 Sex Trafficking in Spain: FiLiA Meets Alison Wilson

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Documentary producer Alison Wilson joins FiLiA Volunteer Luba Fein to discuss her latest project ‘Exit’, a film about women who have been traffick...

#170 Cathy Devine on Human Rights of Girls & Women in Sport

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cathy Devine, a researcher in the field of sports policy and equality, talks to FiLiA about how policies enabling male competitors to enter women&apos...

#169 Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and Records

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this pilot episode of FiLiA’s new women’s history podcast series, we bring together four feminists from around the world to have an internation...

#168 Misogyny as a Hate Crime?

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The 'Newlove Amendment' in the Governments Police Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill is hailed as making misogyny a hate crime, but is that r...

#167 Julie Bindel Leads the Feminism for Women Panel at FiLiA 2021

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of the #FiLiA2021 panel discussion led by Julie Bindel. She discusses her book Feminism for Women, invites women from the audience...

#166 Parental Alienation in the Spanish Family Courts, a Mother's Experience

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So-called 'Parental alienation' is spreading across the globe. We share one woman’s experience of the courts in Spain. It’s difficult to...

#165 Vaishnavi Sundar looks back on FiLiA 2021

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vaishnavi Sundar reminisces with Sally Jackson about her trip to #FiLiA2021 this year. They discuss what she thought about her first FiLiA, some of th...

#164 Margaret Owen: On Hunger Strike for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Owen, 89, began a hunger strike on November 16, 2021 to raise awareness to the imprisonment of Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari...

#163 FiLiA Meets Zemzem Mohamed

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We are honoured to speak with the campaigner Zemzem Mohamed who is working to support women and children affected by the hidden humanitarian crisis un...

#162 Feminist Academic Jo Phoenix is Standing Her Ground and Moving Forward

16 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Jo Phoenix, Chair in Criminology at The Open University, a Trustee of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the Co-Convenor of the Ge...

#161 Women Leaving Faith

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Three women from three different Abrahamic religions talk with host Gita Sahgal about their experiences growing up in and leaving fundamentalist expre...

#160 A Response to the University of Leicester's "Student Sex Worker Policy & Toolkit"

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, FiLiA volunteer Luba Fein meets Nicole, a sex trade survivor to discuss the University of Leicester’s recent publication, the “St...

#159 Julie Macfarlane: A Force of Nature Against Patriarchal Abuse

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We are delighted to speak with a remarkable force of nature called Julie Macfarlane. A fierce advocate for survivors of sexual violence as well as sur...

#158 Ann Henderson on Recording the Contribution that Women Make in Academia

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ann Henderson was the second female Rector at the University of Edinburgh. During her three-year tenure, she experienced sustained targeting by trans ...

#157 Combatting Rape Culture and Sexism in Schools

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We speak to Gemma Aitchison from Yes Matters about the Yes Matters Commitment, an initiative to tackle rape culture in schools. Helping schools to sho...

#156 Ban Virginity Testing and Hymenoplasty

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We talk to Halaleh Taheri, Founder & Executive Director of MEWSo, who is campaigning to ban Virginity testing and Hymenoplasty (hymen repair) and...

#155 Women Unsilenced: Feminists speak out against torture

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We listen to stories of survivors of prostitution/pornography, female sexual mutilation, rape... It is now time we confronted the reality of torture. ...

#154 FiLiA Legacy Project Meets Sharena Lee Satti

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, we speak to poet Sharena Lee Satti about her work and inspiration.Writing has never been optional for Sharena Le...

#153 Birthing Expert Milli Hill Will Not be Silenced by Misogynist Bullies

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Birthing expert Milli Hill who was “cancelled” for suggesting violence in childbirth was committed against women rather than against “birthing p...

#152 Helen Joyce on Trans

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Helen Joyce, author, journalist and editor at The Economist, joins the FiLiA podcast to discuss her newly-released book Trans. An in-depth explorat...

#151 Stephanie Davies-Arai Interviews Parents of Gender Confused Boys

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leading expert Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend discusses Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria with two concerned mothers, Emily and Marie,...

#150 Kurdish Women's Voices: Interview with Houzan Mahmoud

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We speak to Houzan Mahmoud, a Kurdish feminist, writer and anti-war activist from South Kurdistan. She was one of the speakers at the anti-war rally i...

#149 Global Update on Sex-Based Rights with Spanish and German Feminists

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This May, feminists around the world greeted the news that efforts to uphold women’s sex-based rights were being upheld both in the Spanish and Germ...

#148 German Abolitionists Expose the Shocking Truth about the Legal Sex Trade

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Discover the real, often hidden story of the legalised German sex trade. Manuela Schon and Elly Arrow are two abolitionists from Germany, a country fa...

#147 Bright Green Lies: Reclaiming the Environmental Movement

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

FiLiA volunteer Salonika, interviews Lierre Keith and Julia Barnes about their book and documentary film, ‘Bright Green Lies’. Lierre and Julia e...

#146 The Pimping of Prostitution by Julie Bindel - Audio Book Launch

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist, author, co-founder of Justice for Women and Feminist activist Julie Bindel and founder of SPACE International Rachel Moran discuss one of ...

#145 History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Gill discusses how her new book, History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement, showcases the campaigni...

#144 Alice Sullivan: Why We Need Accurate Data on Sex in Science

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Alice Sullivan joins FiLiA volunteer Sara on the FiLiA podcast to explain why we need accurate data on sex in scientific research (and how i...

#143 Scottish Sisters and the struggle for funding

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sharon Aitchison, Margaret Lynch and Dawn Fyfe, three Scottish sisters on the frontline of preserving the knowledge and expertise of the Specialist Wo...

#142 Feminist and Ecological Politics

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

EcoFeminist legends Vandana Shiva, Farida Akhter, and Susan Hawthorne have highlighted the role of women in the ecological movement throughout their l...

#140 Kathleen Stock: When “Gender Identity” Meets Material Reality

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Raquel Rosario Sanchez interviews Professor Kathleen Stock about her new book ‘Material Girls’, a timely and...

#139 Spinning and Weaving: An Anthology Pushing Back Against Misogynist Backlash

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sanchez speaks with Elizabeth Miller, the editor of new anthology Spinning and Weaving: Radical Femi...

#137 Free to Be Me: Refugee Stories from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to activist and LISG volunteer Maggy Moyo and writer and researcher, Jane Traies, discussing their new collection of interviews with lesbian an...

#136 Why Are We Losing Our Women-Led Services?

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

RISE has been providing services for women who have been subjected to male violence across Brighton and east Sussex for decades. Yet, in the recent lo...

#135 The Life's Work of Dr Melissa Farley, Prostitution Researcher

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Luba Fein talks to Dr Melissa Farley, PhD. Dr Farley's contribution to the body of knowledge in the sex tra...

#134 Esther Figueroa: Colonization, Globalization, and Aluminium Mining in Jamaica

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent filmmaker, writer, educator and linguist with over 35 years of media productions including television ...

#133 Who's Afraid of Sex Robots?

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, Luba Fein speaks with the leaders of the Campaign Against Sex Robots, Kathleen Richardson and Charlotta Odlind to understand how ub...

#132 Sophie Walker - 5 Rules for Rebellion

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Activist, journalist, a founding leader of the Women’s Equality Party and described as a ‘modern-day suffragette’. Sophie Walker worked as an in...

#131 Fiona MacKensie: We Can't Consent to This

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, Fiona MacKensie, from the campaign group ‘We Can’t Consent to This’ talks to Gemma Aitchison about her cam...

#130 Esther: Surviving the Sex Trade

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Esther, a sex trade survivor from London, talks to FiLiA’s Luba Fein and explains why prostitution cannot be separated from abuse and exploitation. ...

#129 Institutions are failing Women: Joan Smith

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Joan Smith talks to FiLiA’s Sally Jackson about the many ways in which our patriarchal system fails Women who ...

#128 Human Trafficking Survivor from Canada in Open Letter to PM Trudeau: Shut Pornhub Down

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Luba Fein talks to Caroline Pugh-Roberts, a survivor of eight years of human trafficking. Caroline now works ful...

#127 Tua: Journey to Asylum

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tua is a lesbian from Cameroon who finally received her leave to remain in the United Kingdom in 2019.Tua talks to Sally Jackson about the violent les...

#126 A Recording From Women In Black Armenia

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to members of Women In Black Armenia, Sona Hovakimyan and Arpi Balyan, who share their opinions and thoughts about the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh wa...

#125 Cambridge Radical Feminist Network: Centring Women’s Rights in Academia

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez speaks with Imogen, a representative of the Cambridge Radical Feminist Network to discuss its origins as a g...

#124 FiLiA meets Sall Grover

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sall Grover is the founder & CEO of Giggle, a social network & social medial platform for females. Prior to Giggle, Sall pursued her dream of ...

#122 Legal Advocacy for Rape Survivors with Dr Olivia Smith

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Olivia Smith is calling for a national system of legal advocacy, after publishing a report that aims to improve sexual offence victims’ experienc...

#121 Homeless Child, Sex Trade Victim, Inspiring Author: Meet Grizelda Grootboom

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Grizelda Grootboom from South Africa survived apartheid, homelessness and decades of sexual abuse. Now a famous author and survivor activist, Grizelda...

#120 Susan Hawthorne - Vortex: the Crisis of Patriarchy

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Hawthorne discusses her new book Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy which draws on her decades of experience and radical feminist knowledge to tak...

#119 Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith: The Space Between Black and White

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith's unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that o...

#118 Heather Brunskell-Evans: Transgender Body Politics

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is a feminist, academic, social theorist and philosopher. On this episode of the podcast, she discusses her latest book, Tr...

#117 Jewell Baraka: Surviving Life in a Child Brothel

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Luba Fein interviews Jewell Baraka, a writer, an activist, and a survivor who was trafficked into prostitution and the pornography industry from age 1...

#116 Hibo Wardere: One Woman's Fight Against FGM

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hibo Wardere introduces her memoir 'Cut', detailing her life in Somalia and the UK and sheds light on the practice of Female Genital Mutilat...

#115 Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters on Anti-Racism and Feminism

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Pragna Patel reflects on her work with Southall Black Sisters, which was established in 1979 to meet the needs of Black (Asian and Af...

#114 Yes Matters - Research for the 16 Days of Activism Project

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gemma Aitchison is a director at the YES Matters UK CIC which is also part of the End Violence Against Women coalition. In this episode of the FiLiA P...

#113 Laurel Forster: Women's Activism in Portsmouth

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Laurel Foster, Reader in Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth, gives a fascinating insight into some of the stories she uncovered from ...

#112 Listen to Survivors: Alexine Solis - Abolitionist from France

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alexine Solis is a young woman from France who has been in prostitution between 19 and 21 years old. She became an abolitionist activist after partici...

#111 Stephanie Davies-Arai: Transgender Trend - harms of gender identity teaching, from classroom to clinic

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Davies-Arai is “interested in all things to do with communication.” She designed her own course & accompanying book Communicating wi...