FiLiA
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.
Episodes
207 episodes
#190 A Revindication of Middle-Aged Women with Victoria Smith, author of ‘HAGS’
Feminist author Victoria Smith discusses her first book, ‘Hags’, about the demonisation of middle-aged women with FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez. Smit...
#189 Sex Trade Survivor's Fight to Shut Down an Escort Website
"We all understand what unwanted sex is; another word for that is rape. We all understand that, but when there's money involved, people suddenly don't seem to make that connection of what unwanted sex is bad for you. But if you're getting paid ...
#188 Woman! Life! Freedom! The Women-led Revolution
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 2022 for ‘improper veiling,’ Maryam has been speaking on and organising protests in solidarity w...
#187 Julie Bindel and Jalna Hanmer: "Men need to be held accountable for violence against women"
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's Aid Federation. Jalna talks with Julie Bindel about her life's work and the forthcoming exhibition...
#186 The Sex Buyers' Secrets Revealed
"When you normalize paid rape in prostitution, it becomes confusing to an entire culture, even for [the] government, to define what consent is and what isn't, what rape is and what isn't. "In this episode, FiLiA Volunteer Luba ...
#185 Parenting After Coercive Control - an American Perspective
Dr Christine Cocchiola talks to FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson about the impact of coercive control on children and the Mother-Child relationship and how to heal together after abuse.Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW is a Coercive C...
#184 Sex Robots and Woman Hating with Caitlin Roper
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 just been published by Spinif...
#183 Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers' Lives with Emma Katz
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 in the field or who cares about someone it has affected, Emma describes what coercive ...
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#182 Mother's Rights: Challenging the Family Court
"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 really couldn’t be further from the truth."FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson talks to Natali...
#181 “Deep Deception”: When the Police Targets Women
"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 my taxes all my life and they spent that paying a man to come to sleep with me and deceive me. They...
#180 Rosie Kay Is Here To Stay
"I didn't know what personal persecution felt like before. I could imagine, of course. But there is something very physical about those experiences of being hounded or being piled on by a mob that feels very visceral." Rosie Kay talks t...
#179 “He Chose Porn Over Me” with author Melinda Tankard Reist
FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez speaks to author and activist Melinda Tankard Reist about pornography’s desensitisation of male sexuality and its traumatic effect on women and girls. Hear also about Melinda's work with ...
#178 Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse
"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 economic abuse, there are quite a few barriers."FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson chats to Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE...
#177 Protecting Children is Not Bigotry: Vindication for Stephanie Davis-Arai!
In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, FiLiA spokeswoman, Raquel Rosario Sánchez, talks to Stephanie Davies-Arai, the Founder and Director of Transgender Trend about her campaigning work to protect...
#176 Jane Clare Jones Does Not Suffer Misogynist Fools Gladly
In the latest episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Raquel Rosario Sanchez chats with the feminist philosopher and activist Jane Clare Jones who published her book ‘The Annals of the TERF war’ this month. They discuss feminism, sex-based rights, and th...
#175 The Women Lost Everything: The Hague Convention in Australia
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 Gina continues to campaign to get the Convention amended...
#174 The Hague Convention & Domestic Violence: Fleeing to Safety – Returned to Abuse
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 mothers and their children who are fleeing domestic violence. Her response to this injustice h...
#173 Dr Alyson McGregor: Author of Sex Matters
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 medical care to the national and international stage. She...
#171 Sex Trafficking in Spain: FiLiA Meets Alison Wilson
Documentary producer Alison Wilson joins FiLiA Volunteer Luba Fein to discuss her latest project ‘Exit’, a film about women who have been trafficked for sexual exploitation in Spain. Alison discusses the r...
#170 Cathy Devine on Human Rights of Girls & Women in Sport
Cathy Devine, a researcher in the field of sports policy and equality, talks to FiLiA about how policies enabling male competitors to enter women's categories negatively impact female athletes and are detrimental to women's rights to fairness a...
#169 Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and Records
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 international and intergenerational conversation about the importance ...
#168 Misogyny as a Hate Crime?
The 'Newlove Amendment' in the Governments Police Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill is hailed as making misogyny a hate crime, but is that really the case? Joan Smith discusses what the real consequences o...
#167 Julie Bindel Leads the Feminism for Women Panel at FiLiA 2021
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 to join the conversation about feminist issues across ...
#166 Parental Alienation in the Spanish Family Courts, a Mother's Experience
So-called 'Parental alienation' is spreading across the globe. We share one woman’s experience of the courts in Spain. It’s difficult to hear. Once again Mothers are not being believed when they are trying to protect their children from abusive...
