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
#59 FiLiA meets: Susan Hawthorne
In this podcast, Susan Hawthorne speaks to FiLiA about her work in researching violence against lesbians. Susan joined the Women's Liberation Movement in 1973, the Collective of Melbourne's Rape Crisis Centre in 1974 and has been involved in ma...
#58 FiLiA meets: CAME Women and Girls
Came Women and Girls Development Organisation (CAWOGIDO) is a community based diaspora organisation dedicated to improving the health and well-being of a variety of people from disadvantaged communities, Black and Minority Ethnic groups, develo...
#57 FiLiA meets: Mandy Sanghera
Mandy Sanghera is an award winning philanthropist, a community consultant and global campaigner often referred to as a global catalyst. As well as being an international human rights activist & motivational TEDx speaker from the...
#56 FiLiA discusses: Rape Case in Cyprus with Bracha Barad
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 Government to take action: read our piece
#55 FiLiA meets: Mary-Ann Stephenson
Mary-Ann Stephenson is the Director of the Women’s Budget Group, an independent network of academic researchers, policy experts and campaigners working for a caring economy that promotes women’s equality. She has worked for women’s equality and...
#54 FiLiA meets: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes
Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes spoke at the FiLiA Conference in 2019:I am an activist, EFL teacher, sociologist, feminist Lesbian, writer and publisher.As a fe...
#53 FiLiA Meets: Jalna Hanmer
Jalna Hanmer is a Professor of Women’s Studies who has been influential in developing our theory and understanding of male violence against women and established early Women’s Studies courses at the University of Bradford. In 1974 Jalna w...
#52 FiLiA meets: Hala Aldosari
Hala Aldosari, PhD, Saudi Arabia/USA, is a scholar-activist best known for advocating for women’s rights and protection from violence in Saudi Arabia. Her writing, speaking, and activism focuses on ending the country’s oppressive male-gu...
#51 FiLiA meets: Sian Norris
Sian Norris is a feminist activist, writer, poet, journalist, copywriter and producer. She is the founder and director of the Bristol Women’s Literature festival. In her journalism she specialises in feminism, LGBT rights and the rise of the Fa...
#50 FiLiA meets: Angela C Wild
Angela C. Wild is a lesbian feminist activist, writer, researcher and a political artist. Her work focuses on promoting uncompromising lesbian visibility, building lesbian culture, fighting for women-only-spaces as well as challenging compulsor...
#49 Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation - FiLiA Conference 2019
Panel discussion on surrogacy - a human rights violation, recorded at the FiLiA Conference 2019.Do we need a feminist analysis of surrogacy? the law commission of England and Wales and the Scottish law commission have been conducting a ...
#48 WAST Women Asylum Seekers Together - FiLiA Conference 2019
STILL WE RISEWAST roadshow - “Still WE Rise”- is written, performed by our members of WAST and directed by Magdaline Bartlette. The roadshow is made up of drama, song and poetry performances which show the reality through our own ...
#47 Pragna Patel - FiLiA Conference 2019
SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS’ ‘BRADFORD CONNECTION’ AND THE POLITICS OF SIMULTANEOUS RESISTANCE: LESSONS FOR CONTEMPORARY FEMINISMSouthall Black Sisters is 40 this year and FiLiA is organising its 6th feminist conference in Bradford. Ag...
#46 FiLiA meets: Women Defend Rojava
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 Rojava being an active war zone. FiLiA is grateful to the Women Defend Rojava team f...
#45 FiLiA meets: Huschke Mau
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:- Was born- &nb...
#44 FiLiA meets: Houzan Mahmoud
HOUZAN MAHMOUD is feminist activist, public lecturer and co-founder of Culture Project, a project formed to raise awareness about feminism and gender in Kurdistan and diaspora. ...
#43 FiLiA meets: Vandana Aparanti
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 based caste oppression, one of the only women’s organisation raising awareness about cas...
#42 FiLiA meets: Jennifer Lahl
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 care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager with a deep passion to s...
#41 FiLiA meets: Fiona Broadfoot
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 world of prostitution. she has since worked to raise awareness of the harm it causes to young peo...
#40 FiLiA meets: Louise Tickle
An award-winning freelance journalist, Louise specialises in education and social affairs. She has written extensively on domestic abuse, the effects of poverty on children’s education and child protection.She has a particular interest i...
#38 FiLiA meets: Nicole Jacobs
Nicole Jacobs has been named as government’s designate Domestic Abuse Commissioner.Nicole has been the CEO of charity Standing Together Against Domestic Violence for the last 6 years and has more than 25 years’ experience supporting wome...
#37 FiLiA meets: Rina
This podcast contains sensitive information, which some listeners may find distressing.FiLiA is honoured and humbled to be able to share this important, brave and honest conversation with Rina. She introduces herself like this:
#36 FiLiA meets: Nancy
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 name is Nancy I am 63 years old and I've been abused since I was 8 years old. I have gon...
