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
#86 FiLiA meets: Robyn Boosey
On the 8th anniversary of the UK signing the Istanbul Convention, Director of IC Change Robyn Boosey talks to FiLiA’s Policy Assistant, Adeline, about why ratifying the Convention could be so li...
#85 FiLiA meets: Wanda Wyporska
Dr Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of the Equality Trust, talks to FiLiA’s Public Policy Assistant Adeline about the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, and why more work needs to be done to ensure women are being given a fair de...
#84 FiLiA meets: Rebecca Mordan
Rebecca Mordan spoke with Sally Jackson prior to the FiLiA Conference in 2019 about her work and the amazing Greenham Women Everywhere project, which was shown at FiLiA in Bradfor...
#83 FiLiA meets: Esua Jane Goldsmith
Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith is a writer, feminist activist and development consultant of English – Ghanaian heritage. In 1975 she was the first woman of colour to be elected President of Leicester University Student’s Union, in 2001 she ...
#82 FiLiA meets: Laura Richards
Laura Richards BSc, MSc. MBPsS is an award winning and world-renowned criminal behavioural analyst, investigator and advocate. On this podcast, Laura joins Gemma Aitchison in conversation about her current vital campai...
#80 FiLiA meets: Marie Laguerre
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 online, which became viral and drew media attention. Marie used the opportunity to r...
#79 FiLiA Meets: Women Talk Back!
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 are in pursuit of global liberation from all forms of patriarchy. They therefore cen...
#78 FiLiA meets: Rahila Gupta
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 of Nihal Armstrong and Enslaved: The New British Slavery. Rahila has...
#77 FiLiA Meets: Jo Bartosch - Click Off
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. Click Off draws on feminist...
#76 FiLiA meets: Sam Smethers
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 of the most vulnerable women in society.The Fawcett Society is the UK’s le...
#75 FiLiA meets: Saba Ismail
Saba Ismail has been advocating for women’s rights since she was a teenager, co-founding the organisation Aware Girls with her sister Gulalai. Gulalai’s work focuses on sexual violence in armed conflict...
#74 FiLiA meets: Hilla Kerner
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 Sadia Hameed in a conversation about
#73 FiLiA discusses: Government consultation on pre-charge bail with Sarah Learmonth
Sarah and Alice discuss the current Government consultation on pre-charge bail, and why a change in police practice is needed to protect victims-survivors of rape, domestic abuse and stalking.Sarah Learmonth is a committed advocate for w...
#72 FiLiA introduces our Spokeswoman: Raquel Rosario Sánchez
Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She became Spokeswoman for FiLiA on 25 November 2019, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today, we are delighted to bro...
#71 FiLiA meets: Simi Kamal
Simi Kamal is head of grants at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She is a geographer, social development specialist, and women’s rights advocate with over 30 years’ experience in water sector, poverty alleviation, inclusive develop...
#70 Violence Against Lesbians - FiLiA Conference 2019
Recording from the Violence Against Lesbians Panel at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Featuring:Susan Hawthorne - Unnoticed, Unrecorded, Unremembered: Inscribing the Torture of Lesbians Hilary McCollum - Voicing Vi...
#69 Sunday Closing Speeches - FiLiA Conference 2019
Recording from the Sunday Closing Session of the FiLiA 2019 Conference. Featuring a number of women speaking, including:
#67 From Born in Your Own Body to the Invention of the Transgender Child - FiLiA Conference 2019
"Gay conversion is still thriving in the 21st century. The conversion therapy of today is the prescription of cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, and hysterectomies as treatment for girls and women who do not conform."This is a r...
#66 FiLiA Meets: Greater Manchester Doulas - Birth during COVID-19
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 use of its midwives would be to close all midwifery-led units, strip back their home birth servi...
#65 FiLiA meets: Meera Khanna
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 empowering marginalized women and children across India. ...
#64 FiLiA Meets: Susan Bewley
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 and was the first woman to subspecialise in maternal-fetal medicine in the UK. Susan became consult...
#63 FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry
"Consciousness-raising is enough to spark movements any place you do it. It’s the foundation of everything."Kathleen Barry is a feminist, sociologist and internationally recognised human rights activist. She is a Professor Emer...
#62 FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe
Sam Walshe speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager and having disclosable criminal records. She participated in a legal case brought by three women (including
#61 FiLiA meets: Bev Jackson - LGB Alliance
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 bisexuals that emphasizes the importance of biological sex, not gender identity, when talking ab...
