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
#111 Stephanie Davies-Arai: Transgender Trend - harms of gender identity teaching, from classroom to clinic
Stephanie Davies-Arai is “interested in all things to do with communication.” She designed her own course & accompanying book Communicating with Kids, and is an expert trainer in schools for b...
#110 Fighting for Freedom: Lina Al-Hathloul Speaks About Her Sister Loujain’s Imprisonment
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 Saudi Arabia as punishment for her campaigning for women's ri...
#109 Listen to Survivors: Simone Watson - "Prohibition and Decrim have failed."
Simone Watson is a Survivor activist. She is the director of Nordic Model Australia Coalition and a former human rights delegate for Amnesty International. Simone entered prostitution in a legal brothel in Melbourne in her 20’s, she fo...
#108 Ro Edge: Speak Up for Women - Saving Women’s Sports in New Zealand and Beyond
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 law, policy, and society, based on the shared material reality of being members of the ...
#107 Listen to Survivors: Valerie Tender - militant abolitionist radical feminist
Valérie Pelletier (aka Legal Tender) is a militant abolitionist radical feminist from Montréal, Quebec in Canada. She is a survivor of prostitution, now a public speaker, a conceptual artist. a vlogger, a singer (jazz, country etc.) an...
#106 Afsana Lachaux: Dubai and Sharia law - a warning for women
Afsana Lachaux is a policy specialist and an award-winning women’s rights campaigner on access to justice and violence against women and girls. T...
#105 Dr Nicola Williams: Fair Play for Women - why sex-based policies matter for women's sport
Fair Play for Women is a campaigning and consultancy group which raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and supports policy-makers to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK.Their aim is to facilitate...
#104 Cherry Smiley - fighting for the liberation of Indigenous women and girls
Cherry Smiley is a feminist campaigner, artist, and researcher from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) Nations. She has worked as an anti-violence worker in rape crisis centres and transition houses for battered women and the...
#103 Listen to Survivors: Sex Trade from the Perspective of Marxist and Radical Feminism
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 and Marxist theories, and explains how a liberal, capitalist and misogynist society sa...
#102 Coach Linda Blade - Save Women's Sports
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 and the current President of Athletics Alberta (Alberta Association for Track & F...
#101 Olympian Swimmer Sharron Davies - On Women's Sports
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 public recognition in international competitions by eleven years old. Aged thirteen, she r...
#100 Celebrating 100 FiLiA Podcasts
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 amazing women who bring life and magic to FiLiA - Lisa-Marie, Julian, Sally, Kruti and Ra...
#99 FiLiA meets: Angelika Chaffey - You My Sister
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....
#098 FiLiA discusses: Sheila Jeffreys's autobiography - Trigger Warning
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! Godlessness forbid you heard...
#97 FiLiA meets: Louise Godbold
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 body. Lou shares examples from her work with fellow trauma survivor...
#96 FiLiA meets: Harriet Wistrich
Harriet Wistrich is founder and director of the Centre for Womens Justice 2016, a multi partner organisation aimed at bringing cases holding the state to account in relation to violence against women and girls. She is ...
#95 FiLiA meets: Audrey Ludwig - Sex, Gender Identity and UK Equality law
Audrey Ludwig is a discrimination solicitor who, unusually, puts her head above the parapet on social media. She tweets openly as @AudreySuffolk about her subject. As part of Audrey’s com...
#94 FiLiA Campaign: Support Lesbians in Kakuma Refugee Camp. We need your help.
We spoke to lesbians living in block 13 of Kakuma refugee camp Kelly, Eva, Keryn, Juliet, Seema, Latifah, Ann-Marie, Brenda and Regina.Escaping violence and lesbophobia in their home country, these women are sent by UNHCR to Kakuma refug...
#93 FiLiA meets: Serenity Rose
Serenity Rose is heading a London-based survivor-led campaign, together with The Public Interest Law Centre, aimed at receiving justice, social change and acknowledgement of the harms done to women...
#92 FiLiA meets: Vaishnavi Sundar
"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, given that every six hours or every five hours there is a rape happening in India. I think it is ...
#91 FiLiA meets: Tegan Larin
"I think decriminalization sounds good to some people because they only think about prostituted people. And of course, people in prostitution should never be criminalized. What they don't seem to realize is that full decriminalization also ...
#90 FiLiA discusses: Transgendering Children with Heather Brunskell-Evans
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is an academic, philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist. She specialises in analysing the politics of the body. Heather’s most recent book
#89 FiLiA meets: Kathomi Gatwiri
Dr Kathomi Gatwiri is an award-winning researcher and teacher. She is based at Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast Queensland where she teaches in the School of Arts and Social Science across a range of subjects. She completed ...
