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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 became the first woman of colour to be elected Chair of the Fawcett Society. In 1977-9 Esua served as one of the first black volunteers to be sent on Voluntary Service Overseas in Tanzania. She is a woman of firsts. This podcast talks with Esua about her first book: The Space Between Black and White, her memoir and reflections on growing up mixed race in Britain.

You can find out more about Esua on her website, and her publishers Jacaranda and the Twenty in 2020 campaign here.

Buy Esua’s book The Space Between Black and White from Jacaranda.

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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 campaign to protect women and girls from male violence and abuse: that serial stalkers and domestic violence offenders will be included on a Serial Perpetrator Register. Laura explains why “A cultural shift is urgently needed, one where we prioritise and focus on the perpetrator, ask questions about their offending behaviour, collect and share intelligence about their offending behaviour, assess and manage their behaviour, seek to hold them to account and close their behaviour down.”

Listener Actions

1. Read more about the cases on Laura’s blog and sign the petition for law reform.

2. Use this template letter to write to your MP and Police and Crime Commissioner and demand serial domestic violence offenders and stalkers are included on the Violent and Sexual Offenders Register and managed via the Multi-agency Public Protection Panel just like sex offenders. See this briefing for further information.

3. Public Bill Committee for the Domestic Abuse Bill is calling for written evidence. Please write and ask that serial domestic abuse and stalkers are included on the Violent and Sexual Offenders Register and managed via MAPPA. The deadline closes at 5pm on June 25, 2020.

About Laura

Laura Richards BSc, MSc. MBPsS is an award winning and world-renowned criminal behavioural analyst, investigator and advocate. Laura worked for a decade at New Scotland Yard as Head of the Homicide Prevention Unit, Head of the Violent Crime Intelligence and Analysis Unit and Head of the Sexual Offences Section.

Laura founded Paladin, National Stalking Advocacy Service following the success of the stalking law reform campaign and more recently Laura spearheaded the Domestic Violence Law Reform campaign in England and Wales, which resulted in the offence of coercive control being introduced in 2015. Laura has won numerous awards for her campaigning, advocacy and analytical work to better protect victims.

Laura is author of the Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Model and Oxford University Press book Policing Domestic Violence.

Laura is executive producer of Jennifer 42, consulting producer of Dirty John, the Dirty Truth, co-creator and executive producer of “The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey” on CBS and The Case of Caylee Anthony, Oxygen and host of the Netflix series Killer in the Family.

Laura is co-creator and co-host of the award-winning podcast Real Crime Profile and has a golden doodle puppy called Beatrice #SavageLittleBeast.

Find out more on the websites:

www.laurarichards.co.uk

www.dashriskchecklist.co.uk

www.realcrimeprofile.com

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Mia is a radical feminist, mother and leftist and kickboxer. She was born in Sarajevo and moved with her family to Slovenija in summer of 1994, after the war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her family was communist leaning atheists, and Muslims by heritage. Mia is an anti-theist. Mia cares deeply about the rights of women and girls, and the harms they suffer under patriarchy including religious oppression, commodification of women’s bodies (such as in prostitution and pornography), domestic violence and child abuse. She joins FiLiA’s Sadia Hameed to discuss Bosnia & Herzegovina after the war and her experiences.

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 raise awareness about violence against women and sexism in general. The man who physically assaulted her was convicted to prison. The event also led to her being harassed online by hundreds of people, mostly men. On this podcast, Marie speaks to FiLiA spokeswoman Gemma Aitchison about her experiences.

Marie Laguerre spoke at the FiLiA Conference in 2019 - “From being catcalled and punched in the street to cyber harassment - a story of sexist violence.” Marie’s book Rebellez-Vous with Laurène Daycard is available in to read in French.

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 centre all women who experience misogyny, but who may also face racism, anti-lesbianism, classism and other forms of structural discrimination that arise from male domination.

Women Talk Back! are committed to the power of sisterhood and believe that it is only through an understanding of women's similarities and differences that they can liberate themselves from patriarchy.
Women Talk Back! believes that dialogue with each other is the first step towards liberation from oppressive structures and practices. They welcome women from all backgrounds to join and take part in all aspects of the group. They aim to foster a culture of collective responsibility, care, and honesty with ourselves and one another.

Founding Members
May Mundt-Leach is a graduate in Social Policy and Sociology from the University of Bristol. She set up Women Talk Back! in the living room of her university flat in 2018 as she felt that there were few spaces on campus where women could come together and talk about the issues affecting them. Having worked in France after graduating, she is now looking to pursue postgraduate studies in social research in the UK. She is particularly interested in the role that policy and social interventions play in the everyday lives of women and girls.

Diana Barrera Moreno is Women Talk Back!'s Unruliness Coordinator. An enthusiast of dance, nature, art, and sport. She believes that the creation of a better reality for women is possible. She has helped hosting our weekly consciousness-raising gatherings, and multiple street safety workshops, as well as other hands-on projects. She has organised regular women-only parkour sessions across Bristol and encourages women to roam about in the outdoors. She is concerned about the pervasive nature of violence against women and will address the importance of visibilising this plight in society.

You can learn more about the Feminist Society here:

www.womentalkback.org/

Or connect through social media:

facebook.com/womentalkback/

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