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#110 Fighting for Freedom: Lina Al-Hathloul Speaks About Her Sister Loujain’s Imprisonment

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

FiLiA speaks with Lina Al-Hathloul, the sister of Loujain Al-Hathloul, a women's rights campaigner from Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned in S...

#109 Listen to Survivors: Simone Watson - "Prohibition and Decrim have failed."

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Simone Watson is a Survivor activist. She is the director of Nordic Model Australia Coalition and a former human rights delegate for Amnesty Internati...

#108 Ro Edge: Speak Up for Women - Saving Women’s Sports in New Zealand and Beyond

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Speak Up for Women is a non-partisan organisation that exists to protect and advance the rights and interests of women and girls in New Zealand, in la...

#107 Listen to Survivors: Valerie Tender - militant abolitionist radical feminist

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Valérie Pelletier (aka Legal Tender) is a militant abolitionist radical feminist from Montréal, Quebec in Canada. She is a survivor of prostitution,...

#106 Afsana Lachaux: Dubai and Sharia law - a warning for women

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Afsana Lachaux is a policy specialist and an award-winning women’s rights campaigner on access to justice and violence against women and girls. This...

#105 Dr Nicola Williams: Fair Play for Women - why sex-based policies matter for women's sport

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Fair Play for Women is a campaigning and consultancy group which raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and supports policy-makers to prote...

#104 Cherry Smiley - fighting for the liberation of Indigenous women and girls

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cherry Smiley is a feminist campaigner, artist, and researcher from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) Nations. She has worked as an a...

#103 Listen to Survivors: Sex Trade from the Perspective of Marxist and Radical Feminism

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Stolinski is not only a survivor of the sex trade but also a radical feminist thinker. She analyzes her personal story in the light of feminist a...

#102 Coach Linda Blade - Save Women's Sports

10 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Linda Blade is a Sport Performance Professional with a PhD in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University, in Canada. She is a track and field coach ...

#101 Olympian Swimmer Sharron Davies - On Women's Sports

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sharron Davies MBE, is a professional Olympian swimmer from England. She learned to swim at six years old, to train by eight and began obtaining publi...

#100 Celebrating 100 FiLiA Podcasts

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve reached a small milestone in our team: 100 episodes of the FiLiA podcast. To celebrate this very special episode, I spoke with a few of the am...

#99 FiLiA meets: Angelika Chaffey - You My Sister

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Angelika Chaffey discusses You My Sister, new charity set up to support survivors of the sex trade - whose work is heavily informed by exited women. Y...

#098 FiLiA discusses: Sheila Jeffreys's autobiography - Trigger Warning

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lock up your boys, there's a new Sheila Jeffreys book in town: Trigger Warning. Her ideas are so triggering, we had to warn our listeners! Godles...

#97 FiLiA meets: Louise Godbold

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Godbold shares her experience and knowledge on how trauma can affect us, what happens in the brain and how that might show in our behaviour and...

#96 FiLiA meets: Harriet Wistrich

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Harriet Wistrich is founder and director of the Centre for Womens Justice 2016, a multi partner organisation aimed at bringing cases holding the state...

#95 FiLiA meets: Audrey Ludwig - Sex, Gender Identity and UK Equality law

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Audrey Ludwig is a discrimination solicitor who, unusually, puts her head above the parapet on social media. She tweets openly as @AudreySuffolk about...

#94 FiLiA Campaign: Support Lesbians in Kakuma Refugee Camp. We need your help.

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We spoke to lesbians living in block 13 of Kakuma refugee camp Kelly, Eva, Keryn, Juliet, Seema, Latifah, Ann-Marie, Brenda and Regina.Escaping violen...

#93 FiLiA meets: Serenity Rose

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Serenity Rose is heading a London-based survivor-led campaign, together with The Public Interest Law Centre, aimed at receiving justice, social change...

#92 FiLiA meets: Vaishnavi Sundar

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"There is no choice in oppression. There is no choice in exploitation. There is no choice in being a secondary citizen to men in this country, gi...

#91 FiLiA meets: Tegan Larin

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"I think decriminalization sounds good to some people because they only think about prostituted people. And of course, people in prostitution sho...

#90 FiLiA discusses: Transgendering Children with Heather Brunskell-Evans

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is an academic, philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist. She specialises in analysing the politics of the body. ...

#89 FiLiA meets: Kathomi Gatwiri

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Kathomi Gatwiri is an award-winning researcher and teacher. She is based at Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast Queensland where she teache...

#88 FiLiA meets: Daisy Haynes

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Daisy is a perpetually exhausted autist and chronically ill home-educating mother of seven. She is an English literature student and a working-class r...

#87 FiLiA meets: Zara

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Zara is a survivor of childhood sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking and domestic violence. After experiencing twelve years of systematic sancti...

#86 FiLiA meets: Robyn Boosey

13 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On the 8th anniversary of the UK signing the Istanbul Convention, Director of IC Change Robyn Boosey talks to FiLiA’s Policy Assistant, Adeline, abo...

#85 FiLiA meets: Wanda Wyporska

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of the Equality Trust, talks to FiLiA’s Public Policy Assistant Adeline about the 50th Anniversary of the Equa...

#84 FiLiA meets: Rebecca Mordan

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Mordan spoke with Sally Jackson prior to the FiLiA Conference in 2019 about her work and the amazing Greenham Women Everywhere project, which ...

#83 FiLiA meets: Esua Jane Goldsmith

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith is a writer, feminist activist and development consultant of English – Ghanaian heritage. In 1975 she was the first woman ...

#82 FiLiA meets: Laura Richards

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Richards BSc, MSc. MBPsS is an award winning and world-renowned criminal behavioural analyst, investigator and advocate. On this podcast, Laura ...

#80 FiLiA meets: Marie Laguerre

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marie Laguerre is a French feminist and author. She was assaulted on the street by a man during the summer of 2018. She posted the video of the attack...

#79 FiLiA Meets: Women Talk Back!

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Feminist Student Society at the University of Bristol, Women Talk Back! provides a space for women to engage in lively discussion and debate. They...

#78 FiLiA meets: Rahila Gupta

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rahila Gupta is a writer, journalist and activist. She has published a number of books, short stories and poems, including Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad...

#77 FiLiA Meets: Jo Bartosch - Click Off

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jo Bartosch is a feminist writer and campaigner against the sex industry. She is the Founder and Director the of anti-pornography think tank Click Off...

#76 FiLiA meets: Sam Smethers

09 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Smethers talks to FiLiA’s Policy Assistant, Alice, about the UK Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the unseen impact on some o...

#75 FiLiA meets: Saba Ismail

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Saba Ismail has been advocating for women’s rights since she was a teenager, co-founding the organisation Aware Girls with her sister Gulalai. Gulal...

#74 FiLiA meets: Hilla Kerner

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilla Kerner is a feminist who works with Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, the longest standing rape crisis centre in Canada. She joins...

#73 FiLiA discusses: Government consultation on pre-charge bail with Sarah Learmonth

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah and Alice discuss the current Government consultation on pre-charge bail, and why a change in police practice is needed to protect victims-survi...

#72 FiLiA introduces our Spokeswoman: Raquel Rosario Sánchez

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She became Spokeswoman for FiLiA on 25 November 2019, the ...

#71 FiLiA meets: Simi Kamal

11 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Simi Kamal is head of grants at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She is a geographer, social development specialist, and women’s rights advoca...

#70 Violence Against Lesbians - FiLiA Conference 2019

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Recording from the Violence Against Lesbians Panel at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Featuring:Susan Hawthorne - Unnoticed, Unrecorded, Unremembered: ...

#69 Sunday Closing Speeches - FiLiA Conference 2019

05 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Recording from the Sunday Closing Session of the FiLiA 2019 Conference. Featuring a number of women speaking, including:Sharena Lee Satti, author and ...

#67 From Born in Your Own Body to the Invention of the Transgender Child - FiLiA Conference 2019

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"Gay conversion is still thriving in the 21st century. The conversion therapy of today is the prescription of cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, a...

#66 FiLiA Meets: Greater Manchester Doulas - Birth during COVID-19

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the UK, as the coronavirus pandemic rages, we are seeing the effects of years of over-medicalisation of birth. The NHS has decided that the best us...

#65 FiLiA meets: Meera Khanna

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meera Khanna is a feminist, social activist, writer, and poet, and the trustee and executive vice president of Guild for Service, an NGO focused on em...

#64 FiLiA Meets: Susan Bewley

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Bewley is a feminist and Professor Emeritus in Obstetrics & Women’s Health at King’s College London. She qualified as a doctor in 1982 a...

#63 FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"Consciousness-raising is enough to spark movements any place you do it. It’s the foundation of everything."Kathleen Barry is a feminist, ...

#62 FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Walshe speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager and having disclosable criminal records.  She participat...

#61 FiLiA meets: Bev Jackson - LGB Alliance

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bev Jackson set up the LGB Alliance together with Kate Harris in October 2019. LGB Alliance is a lesbian-led organization for lesbians, gay men and bi...

#60 FiLiA meets: Manu Schon

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Manu Schon is a sociologist and radical feminist blogger for the Blog “Die Störenfriedas.” She is an anti-prostitution activist, co-founder of Ab...

#59 FiLiA meets: Susan Hawthorne

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, Susan Hawthorne speaks to FiLiA about her work in researching violence against lesbians. Susan joined the Women's Liberation Mov...

#58 FiLiA meets: CAME Women and Girls

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Came Women and Girls Development Organisation (CAWOGIDO) is a community based diaspora organisation dedicated to improving the health and well-being o...

#57 FiLiA meets: Mandy Sanghera

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mandy Sanghera is an award winning philanthropist, a community consultant and global campaigner often referred to as a global catalyst. As well as be...

#56 FiLiA discusses: Rape Case in Cyprus with Bracha Barad

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

FiLiA has covered the case of a young British woman who reported being gang raped while staying at a resort in Cyprus. FiLiA called on the UK Governme...

#55 FiLiA meets: Mary-Ann Stephenson

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mary-Ann Stephenson is the Director of the Women’s Budget Group, an independent network of academic researchers, policy experts and campaigners work...

#54 FiLiA meets: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes spoke at the FiLiA Conference in 2019:I am an activist, EFL teacher, sociologist, feminist Lesbian, writer and publisher.As a ...

#53 FiLiA Meets: Jalna Hanmer

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jalna Hanmer is a Professor of Women’s Studies who has been influential in developing our theory and understanding of male violence against women an...

#52 FiLiA meets: Hala Aldosari

15 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hala Aldosari, PhD, Saudi Arabia/USA, is a scholar-activist best known for advocating for women’s rights and protection from violence in Saudi Arabi...

#51 FiLiA meets: Sian Norris

14 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sian Norris is a feminist activist, writer, poet, journalist, copywriter and producer. She is the founder and director of the Bristol Women’s Litera...

#50 FiLiA meets: Angela C Wild

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Angela C. Wild is a lesbian feminist activist, writer, researcher and a political artist. Her work focuses on promoting uncompromising lesbian visibil...

#49 Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation - FiLiA Conference 2019

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Panel discussion on surrogacy - a human rights violation, recorded at the FiLiA Conference 2019.Do we need a feminist analysis of surrogacy? the law c...

#48 WAST Women Asylum Seekers Together - FiLiA Conference 2019

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

STILL WE RISEWAST roadshow - “Still WE Rise”- is written, performed by our members of WAST and directed by Magdaline Bartlette. The roadshow is ma...

#47 Pragna Patel - FiLiA Conference 2019

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS’ ‘BRADFORD CONNECTION’ AND THE POLITICS OF SIMULTANEOUS RESISTANCE: LESSONS FOR CONTEMPORARY FEMINISMSouthall Black Siste...

#46 FiLiA meets: Women Defend Rojava

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Note: the questions and answers for this podcast had to be recorded separately as we were unable to continue the conversation over the internet due to...

#45 FiLiA meets: Huschke Mau

12 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Huschke Mau is a German woman who was in prostitution for a long time. She´s a writer, an activist and doing her PhD. Her biography in her own words...

#44 FiLiA meets: Houzan Mahmoud

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

HOUZAN MAHMOUD  is feminist activist, public lecturer and co-founder of Culture Project,  a project formed to raise awareness about feminism and gen...

#43 FiLiA meets: Vandana Aparanti

02 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Vandana Aparanti is an anti-caste activist and expert in the field of oppressed caste women’s rights. She is co-founder and the Chair of STOP gender...

#42 FiLiA meets: Jennifer Lahl

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ms. Lahl is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. Lahl couples her 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical car...

#41 FiLiA meets: Fiona Broadfoot

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Broadfoot is a sex trade survivor, having been trafficked into prostitution at the age of 15. Fiona spent 11 years entrenched in the violent wor...

#40 FiLiA meets: Louise Tickle

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

An award-winning freelance journalist, Louise specialises in education and social affairs. She has written extensively on domestic abuse, the effects ...

#38 FiLiA meets: Nicole Jacobs

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole Jacobs has been named as government’s designate Domestic Abuse Commissioner.Nicole has been the CEO of charity Standing Together Against Dome...

#37 FiLiA meets: Rina

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast contains sensitive information, which some listeners may find distressing.FiLiA is honoured and humbled to be able to share this importan...

#36 FiLiA meets: Nancy

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

FiLiA is honoured and humbled to be able to share this important, brave and honest conversation with Nancy. She introduces herself like this:“Hi, my...

#35 FiLiA meets: Daniela Nadj

05 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Daniela Nadj, LLB, LLM, PhD is a graduate of Queen Mary, University of London, Cornell University and the University of Westminster. She has been a le...

#34 FiLiA meets: Ailbhe Smyth

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ailbhe Smyth has been active in LGB&TIQ, feminist and radical politics for many years. She was head of Women’s Studies at UCD from 1990 until 20...

#33 FiLiA meets: Renate Klein

24 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Renate Klein is a Swiss-Australian biologist and social scientist. She has been a feminist health activist and academic since the 1980s and was a f...

#32 FiLiA meets: Sarit Bloom - Women Wage Peace

20 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sarit Bloom is a member of the group Women Wage Peace (WWP), which started in November 2014 after Operation Protective Edge, also known as the 2014 Ga...

#31 FiLiA Meets: Merly Åsbogård

27 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Merly Åsbogård is a wonderful feminist who will be speaking at the FiLiA conference in 2019. She describes herself like this:”I administrate a sup...

#30 FiLiA Meets: Julie Furlong

17 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Furlong is a lesbian feminist activist, who is part of a group of proud lesbian women organising the Lesbian Strength March in Leeds on 7th Sept...

#29 FiLiA meets: Zainab Ali Khan - Every Woman Treaty

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Zainab Ali Khan is a Gender & Research Specialist with 10 years of work experience in the Development and Corporate sectors of Pakistan. Her educa...

#28 FiLiA meets: Jody Raphael

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jody Raphael is Senior Research Fellow, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois. She has been res...

#27 FiLiA meets: Maryam Namazie

01 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger. She is the Spokesperson for Fitnah - Movement for Women's Liberation, Equal Right...

#26 FiLiA Meets: Louise Winstanley - ABColombia

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Winstanley has been working with ABColombia since 2010. As Programme and Advocacy Manager, Louise’s role is to manage and co-ordinate the wor...

#25 FiLiA meets: Eleanor Nwadinobi - Every Woman Treaty

12 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Eleanor Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, FAAC, Nigeria, is an independent gender, health, women’s rights, and women, peace, and security consultant. She has wo...

#24 FiLiA meets: Karen Dobres

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Dobres, Equality FC Campaign Manager for Lewes Football Club, talks about why and how Lewes became the first football club in the world to achie...

#23 FiLiA meets: Bec Wonders

05 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bec Wonders is a PhD student at the Glasgow School of Art in secondwave feminist print culture and theory. She co-founded the Vancouver Women's L...

#22 FiLiA meets: Dr Ava Kanyeredzi

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi is a lecturer on the Forensic, Clinical and Community Psychology programmes at the University of East London. Her book Race Culture ...

#21 FiLiA meets: Megan Manson - National Secular Society

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Manson joined the National Secular Society in 2017 as a Campaigns Officer. The NSS campaigns for the separation of religion and state and equal ...

#20 FiLiA meets: Kiri Tunks - WPUK

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kiri Tunks is a teacher, trade unionist, socialist feminist and one of the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK (WPUK). This grass-roots women’s rights...

#19 FiLiA in conversation: Khadija Khan and Sadia Hameed on Religious Fundamentalism, Part 2

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Khadija Khan is a feminist, independent journalist and commentator. She is originally from Pakistan, but left the country after she criticised religio...

#018 FiLiA meets: Meghan Murphy - Feminist Current

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Meghan Murphy is a freelance journalist and writer, who uncompromisingly highlights women’s rights issues. She is the founder and editor of Feminist...

#017 FiLiA meets: Mine Atli - KAYAD

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mine Atli: Lawyer and activist from THE ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN TO SUPPORT LIVING, or KAYAD as its known in Cyprus, speaks with FiLiA volunteer Sally Jac...

#016 FiLiA meets: Sabiha Temizkan - Speak Up For Leyla

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

UPDATE 26th May 2019“I end my hunger strike but continue my fight against isolation”Leyla GüvenArticle in the Morning Star HERESabiha Temizkan is...

#015 FiLiA meets: Dr Sasha Rakoff - Not Buying It

31 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Sasha Rakoff is the CEO of Not Buying It, a UK-based feminist group who challenge the sexual exploitation of porn and the sex trade. She is joined ...

#014 FiLiA in conversation: Khadija Khan and Sadia Hameed on Religious Fundamentalism, Part 1

30 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Khadija Khan is a feminist, independent journalist and commentator. She is originally from Pakistan, but left the country after she criticised religio...

#013 FiLiA meets: Sheila Jeffreys - The Lesbian Revolution

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sheila Jeffreys became a feminist activist in 1973, and a lesbian feminist in 1977. She is the author of 10 books on the history and politics of sexua...

#012 FiLiA meets: Kendra Houseman - Out of the Shadows

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kendra Houseman is a survivor of child sexual exploitation and gangs. As a child, she always used to think that adults couldn’t see her. Kendra now ...

#11 FiLiA meets: Hibo Wardere - FGM Activist & Speaker

13 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hibo Wardere is a survivor of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) who spends her time working to ensure that no other girl will be subjected to the pain a...

#10 FiLiA meets: Carol J Adams - Sexual Politics of Meat

07 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Carol J. Adams is an American activist and author who has written extensively on the sexual politics of meat. Here she discusses how a culture of meat...

#9 FiLiA meets: Sodfa Daaji - Activist & Speaker

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sodfa Daaji is a Tunisian-Italian feminist engaged in Europe and Africa. Here she interestingly draws out the connections as well as differences betwe...

#8 FiLiA meets: Elizabeth Gordon - Non-State Torture

03 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Gordon is an artist and a campaigner against Non State Torture.  She advocates for non state torture to be named and recognised for what it...