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
#33 FiLiA meets: Renate Klein
Dr Renate Klein is a Swiss-Australian biologist and social scientist. She has been a feminist health activist and academic since the 1980s and was a founder of FINRRAGE (Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic E...
#32 FiLiA meets: Sarit Bloom - Women Wage Peace
Sarit Bloom is a member of the group Women Wage Peace (WWP), which started in November 2014 after Operation Protective Edge, also known as the 2014 Gaza war. WWP is the largest grassroots movement in Israel that strives to promote a political a...
#31 FiLiA Meets: Merly Åsbogård
Merly Åsbogård is a wonderful feminist who will be speaking at the FiLiA conference in 2019. She describes herself like this:”I administrate a support group online for women with experience of different kinds of abuse.“I'm the wom...
#30 FiLiA Meets: Julie Furlong
Julie Furlong is a lesbian feminist activist, who is part of a group of proud lesbian women organising the Lesbian Strength March in Leeds on 7th Se...
#29 FiLiA meets: Zainab Ali Khan - Every Woman Treaty
Zainab Ali Khan is a Gender & Research Specialist with 10 years of work experience in the Development and Corporate sectors of Pakistan. Her educational background includes a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine in English Literat...
#28 FiLiA meets: Jody Raphael
Jody Raphael is Senior Research Fellow, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois. She has been researching in the areas of prostitution and human trafficking since 2001 and is the author of fo...
#27 FiLiA meets: Maryam Namazie
Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger. She is the Spokesperson for Fitnah - Movement for Women's Liberation, <...
#26 FiLiA Meets: Louise Winstanley - ABColombia
Louise Winstanley has been working with ABColombia since 2010. As Programme and Advocacy Manager, Louise’s role is to manage and co-ordinate the work of ABColombia - the joint advocacy project of five leading British and Irish organisations wit...
#25 FiLiA meets: Eleanor Nwadinobi - Every Woman Treaty
Eleanor Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, FAAC, Nigeria, is an independent gender, health, women’s rights, and women, peace, and security consultant. She has worked on a wide range of issues including child trafficking, girls education, peace building, and...
#24 FiLiA meets: Karen Dobres
Karen Dobres, Equality FC Campaign Manager for Lewes Football Club, talks about why and how Lewes became the first football club in the world to achieve pay parity for its male and female players, and why - shockingly but brilliantly - it is st...
#23 FiLiA meets: Bec Wonders
Bec Wonders is a PhD student at the Glasgow School of Art in secondwave feminist print culture and theory. She co-founded the Vancouver Women's Library and earned a Master of Publishing at the Simon Fraser University. She is interviewed by Heat...
#22 FiLiA meets: Dr Ava Kanyeredzi
Dr Ava Kanyeredzi is a lecturer on the Forensic, Clinical and Community Psychology programmes at the University of East London. Her book Race Culture and Gender: Black Female Experiences ...
#21 FiLiA meets: Megan Manson - National Secular Society
Megan Manson joined the National Secular Society in 2017 as a Campaigns Officer. The NSS campaigns for the separation of religion and state and equal respect for everyone's human rights, so no one is either advantaged or disadvantaged because o...
#20 FiLiA meets: Kiri Tunks - WPUK
Kiri Tunks is a teacher, trade unionist, socialist feminist and one of the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK (WPUK). This grass-roots women’s rights campaign group started with 5 demands:Respectful and evidence-based discussion about ...
#19 FiLiA in conversation: Khadija Khan and Sadia Hameed on Religious Fundamentalism, Part 2
Khadija Khan is a feminist, independent journalist and commentator. She is originally from Pakistan, but left the country after she criticised religious fundamentalism. Khadija now lives in Germany. Her work focuses on women's rights and secula...
#018 FiLiA meets: Meghan Murphy - Feminist Current
Meghan Murphy is a freelance journalist and writer, who uncompromisingly highlights women’s rights issues. She is the founder and editor of Feminist Current, Canada’s leading feminist website. Meghan is visiting the United Kingdom in May 2019, ...
#017 FiLiA meets: Mine Atli - KAYAD
Mine Atli: Lawyer and activist from THE ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN TO SUPPORT LIVING, or KAYAD as its known in Cyprus, speaks with FiLiA volunteer Sally Jackson. KAYAD was established in 1998 with the aim of eliminating all forms of discr...
#016 FiLiA meets: Sabiha Temizkan - Speak Up For Leyla
UPDATE 26th May 2019“I end my hunger strike but continue my fight against isolation”Leyla GüvenArticle in the Morning Star
#015 FiLiA meets: Dr Sasha Rakoff - Not Buying It
Dr Sasha Rakoff is the CEO of Not Buying It, a UK-based feminist group who challenge the sexual exploitation of porn and the sex trade. She is joined by Sally Jackson from FiLiA in a discussion on strip clubs, including the recent exposure b...
#014 FiLiA in conversation: Khadija Khan and Sadia Hameed on Religious Fundamentalism, Part 1
Khadija Khan is a feminist, independent journalist and commentator. She is originally from Pakistan, but left the country after she criticised religious fundamentalism. Khadija now lives in Germany. Her work focuses on women's rights and secula...
#013 FiLiA meets: Sheila Jeffreys - The Lesbian Revolution
Sheila Jeffreys became a feminist activist in 1973, and a lesbian feminist in 1977. She is the author of 10 books on the history and politics of sexuality, and is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at th...
#012 FiLiA meets: Kendra Houseman - Out of the Shadows
Kendra Houseman is a survivor of child sexual exploitation and gangs. As a child, she always used to think that adults couldn’t see her. Kendra now works with children and young people at risk of child sexual exploitation and gangs, and trains ...
#11 FiLiA meets: Hibo Wardere - FGM Activist & Speaker
Hibo Wardere is a survivor of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) who spends her time working to ensure that no other girl will be subjected to the pain and long term physical and emotional damage it causes. She works in the UK and all over the wor...
#10 FiLiA meets: Carol J Adams - Sexual Politics of Meat
Carol J. Adams is an American activist and author who has written extensively on the sexual politics of meat. Here she discusses how a culture of meat-eating and the objectification of women as flesh to be consumed are intimately connected. She...
#9 FiLiA meets: Sodfa Daaji - Activist & Speaker
Sodfa Daaji is a Tunisian-Italian feminist engaged in Europe and Africa. Here she interestingly draws out the connections as well as differences between European and African cultures, traditions, and religions, and their effects on the achievem...
