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
#137 Free to Be Me: Refugee Stories from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group
Listen to activist and LISG volunteer Maggy Moyo and writer and researcher, Jane Traies, discussing their new collection of interviews with lesbian and bi women seeking asylum in the UK and the campaigners...
#136 Why Are We Losing Our Women-Led Services?
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 local retendering process they have lost three specific services to a generic, non-specialist (c...
#135 The Life's Work of Dr Melissa Farley, Prostitution Researcher
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 trade is tremendous. She is the most influential researcher in ...
#134 Esther Figueroa: Colonization, Globalization, and Aluminium Mining in Jamaica
Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent filmmaker, writer, educator and linguist with over 35 years of media productions including television programming, documentaries, educational videos, multime...
#133 Who's Afraid of Sex Robots?
In this interview, Luba Fein speaks with the leaders of the Campaign Against Sex Robots, Kathleen Richardson and Charlotta Odlind to understand how ubiquitous the sex robots are, what they look like, who i...
#132 Sophie Walker - 5 Rules for Rebellion
Activist, journalist, a founding leader of the Women’s Equality Party and described as a ‘modern-day suffragette’. Sophie Walker worked as an international news agency journalist for nearly twenty years an...
#131 Fiona MacKensie: We Can't Consent to This
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 campaign to make the government ban the so called ‘rough sex def...
#130 Esther: Surviving the Sex Trade
Esther, a sex trade survivor from London, talks to FiLiA’s Luba Fein and explains why prostitution cannot be separated from abuse and exploitation. She became involved with activism against the sex trade b...
#129 Institutions are failing Women: Joan Smith
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 have been subjected to violence from men.
#128 Human Trafficking Survivor from Canada in Open Letter to PM Trudeau: Shut Pornhub Down
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 full time exclusively with trafficked persons through the ...
#127 Tua: Journey to Asylum
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 lesbophobia ...
#126 A Recording From Women In Black Armenia
Listen to members of Women In Black Armenia, Sona Hovakimyan and Arpi Balyan, who share their opinions and thoughts about the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war which began on September 27, 2020, and lasted...
#125 Cambridge Radical Feminist Network: Centring Women’s Rights in Academia
FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez speaks with Imogen, a representative of the Cambridge Radical Feminist Network to discuss its origins as a group, its politics and the recent
#124 FiLiA meets Sall Grover
Sall Grover is the founder & CEO of Giggle, a social network & social medial platform for females. Prior to Giggle, Sall pursued her dream of screenwriting in Hollywood but retired after almost 10 ...
#122 Legal Advocacy for Rape Survivors with Dr Olivia Smith
Dr Olivia Smith is calling for a national system of legal advocacy, after publishing a report that aims to improve sexual offence victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system.
#121 Homeless Child, Sex Trade Victim, Inspiring Author: Meet Grizelda Grootboom
Grizelda Grootboom from South Africa survived apartheid, homelessness and decades of sexual abuse. Now a famous author and survivor activist, Grizelda is interviewed by Luba Fein about her escape from a li...
#120 Susan Hawthorne - Vortex: the Crisis of Patriarchy
Susan Hawthorne discusses her new book Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy which draws on her decades of experience and radical feminist knowledge to take on a huge task. Vortex is a wide-ranging analysis of ...
#119 Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith: The Space Between Black and White
Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith's unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being ‘an only’.
#118 Heather Brunskell-Evans: Transgender Body Politics
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is a feminist, academic, social theorist and philosopher. On this episode of the podcast, she discusses her latest book,
#117 Jewell Baraka: Surviving Life in a Child Brothel
Luba Fein interviews Jewell Baraka, a writer, an activist, and a survivor who was trafficked into prostitution and the pornography industry from age 11-17, in Portland, Oregon, USA. Now, J...
#116 Hibo Wardere: One Woman's Fight Against FGM
Hibo Wardere introduces her memoir 'Cut', detailing her life in Somalia and the UK and sheds light on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, that's still being carried out in the 21st century.
#115 Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters on Anti-Racism and Feminism
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 African-Caribbean) women, and aims "to highlight and chal...
#114 Yes Matters - Research for the 16 Days of Activism Project
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 Podcast, Gemma discusses the recent findings of a resear...
