FiLiA

Campaigners Sammy Woodhouse and  Victoria Hudson have been subjected to the trauma of the Family Court system and are now fighting to redress the harm done to so many women and children and improve the system for the future.

In this podcast, they discuss the government’s planned overhaul of the Family Court system and the recommendations of The Ministry of Justice’s Harm Report. They also share their campaign to help the forgotten victims who have already gone through the system in the past.

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 working with them, which was published on this year’s International Women's Day.

The book relays their own words stories of love, trauma, struggle and friendship, courage and solidarity.

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 (cheaper) service. 

In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, Sally Jackson speaks to Jo Gough CEO of RISE Brighton, about the history of RISE, its impact on survivors, the council’s decision to cancel RISE’s contract,  and what we can all do to help.

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 this field today, and learning about her research and activism is a "must" for every abolitionist and/ or feminist.

Dr. Farley has practiced as a clinical psychologist for 50 years. She brings that experience to her consultations with agencies, governments, and advocates for prostituted and trafficked women. She has articulated the harms of prostitution, pornography, and trafficking as an expert witness in forensic evaluations. She has been categorized as a legal expert on the effects of sexual violence against women and children, posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociation, prostitution, and trafficking. I

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, multimedia and feature film. Her activist film making gives voice to those outside of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of local and indigenous knowledge and cultures, the environment, social injustice, and community empowerment.

In this interview, Esther describes her journey as an activist and organiser and covers topics including Esther’s films, GEFF 2020, aluminium mining in Jamaica, the history and legacy of colonisation, and how "development" and "poverty eradication" as defined by colonial powers has taken the so-called Low and Middle-Income Countries towards inequality and ecocide.

Esther shares her insight on the oppression of nature and oppression of women, and how environmentalism should go beyond sustaining our way of life on the planet, in the same way that feminism should go beyond empowering women to continue patriarchal roles.

This connection between the oppression of women and the oppression of nature makes it clear why radical efforts to topple these structures of power is necessary to liberate women and nature.

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 is the target audience, and why they are so dangerous.

The Campaign Against Sex Robots was founded in 2015 to warn against the dangers of normalising relationships with machines and reinforcing female dehumananisation. The first campaign image featured a broken mannequin and represents dissociation from relationship and the instrumentality of women’s bodies, reduced to parts. The campaign has received international attention and will continue to defend the dignity and humanity of women and girls.