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Daisy is a perpetually exhausted autist and chronically ill home-educating mother of seven. She is an English literature student and a working-class radical feminist. She can sometimes be found writing things on Medium, but most of her activism takes place on social media platforms.

Daisy joins FiLiA’s spokeswoman Gemma Aitchison for a discussion about class, how women are kept in poverty and impacted by the welfare state.

Read Daisy’s essays on Medium

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Zara is a survivor of childhood sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking and domestic violence. After experiencing twelve years of systematic sanctioned homelessness she turned her passions towards campaigning for better safeguarding, housing and equality for survivors of abuse. Zara is an advocate for women’s independence, freedom and personal empowerment of choice through the means of fundamental rights to safety and exiting from persecution.

On this podcast, Zara spoke to Sadia Hameed about her work which was thankfully successful: the APPG amended the Domestic Abuse Bill to include priority need for homeless survivors. On a local level, Brighton & Hove policy was changed to ensure women leaving refuge bypass temporary accommodation and go straight into settled housing. For more background, see this article &. petition about Zara’s case.

This audio was regretfully very delayed in publication. We hope listeners will find the conversation valuable and support Zara’s future important endeavours.

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 life-changing for many women in the UK.

Robyn Boosey is the co-director of the IC Change campaign, and Manager of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne's Preventing Violence Against Women Program. She was previously the policy lead on West and Central Africa at Tearfund.

Useful links

Sign and share the IC change petition.

Read Robyn’s blog for FiLiA

Follow IC Change on Twitter and Facebook @ICchangeUK

Find out more here: www.icchange.co.uk

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 deal.

Dr Wanda Wyporska, FRSA, is Executive Director at The Equality Trust, the national charity that campaigns to reduce social and economic inequality. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of York, a trustee of ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), Redthread Youth, and Equally Ours and Governor of a primary school. She is a regular keynote speaker and sits on or has advised a range of bodies, such as the ACEVO race advisory panel, the Fight Inequality Alliance Steering Group, the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Social Power review, NUS Poverty Commission and the Sex Education Forum Advisory Group.

Wanda has over a decade of experience working in the trade union movement, leading on equalities, social mobility and education policy and is an experienced campaigner. She is a TEDx speaker, has spoken at the United Nations, York Festival of Ideas, and chaired a panel at the Women of the World Festival. She regularly comments in the media, having appeared on Newsnight, BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze, Sky News, and BBC 1's The Big Questions, and written for The Guardian, HuffPo, and The Independent among other outlets.

Wanda was a Starun Senior Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford, where she was awarded a doctorate in European History and subsequently published her first book, Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland 1500-1800 in 2013. It was shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

Useful links

The Equal Pay Act: All You Need To Know (FiLiA resource)

Equality Trust lifetime earnings loss calculator

‘From Pin Money to Fat Cats’ report

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 Bradford.

After graduating from Bristol Old Vic and working in film, theatre and television, Rebecca became disillusioned by the dearth of roles and opportunities for women.

A dynamic and enterprising artist, she created her own company Scary Little Girls to try and ‘level the playing field’, populating stories with fascinating, diverse female characters; and rescuing amazing women from the wastelands of history.

Rebecca has been intimately involved with every aspect of SLG, writing, directing, producing and performing to take the company from strength to strength. She is still also a grassroots campaigner against male violence and a frequent guest expert on BBC Radio and Sky News.

This podcast was regretfully very delayed in publication, but we hope listeners will enjoy the interesting conversation and support Rebecca’s important endeavours.

Find out more on the websites:

www.scarylittlegirls.co.uk

www.greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk

Follow Rebecca on:

Twitter @ScaryLittleGs

Facebook

Instagram @scarylittlegirls