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  • #064 FiLiA Meets: Susan Bewley
    Susan Bewley is Professor Emeritus in Obstetrics & Women’s Health at King’s College London. She qualified as a doctor in 1982 and was the first woman to subspecialise in maternal-fetal medicine in the UK. Susan became consultant & Clinical Director at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals. She was a Sexual Offences Examiner & job-share clinical lead at The Havens Sexual Assault Referral Centres. Susan has published widely on severe maternal morbidity and health aspects of violence against women & girls, and has chaired NICE Guideline Development Groups. She the chair of the charity Healthwatch-UK: ‘for science & integrity in healthcare.’
    35 min
  • #063 FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry
    Kathleen Barry is a feminist, sociologist and internationally recognised human rights activist. She is a Professor Emerita and the author of five books, including the landmark work Female Sexual Slavery published in 1979. Kathleen has been a close friend of FiLiA for a number of years and we are honoured to be speaking with her on this podcast. She joined a FiLiA weekend by Skype to handhold the team through our first Consciousness Raising session. Her book Susan B Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist was the inspiration for the decision to take FiLiA out of London and to a different city every year - one of the best decisions we made.
    30 min
  • #63 FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry

    "Consciousness-raising is enough to spark movements any place you do it. It’s the foundation of everything."

    Kathleen Barry is a feminist, sociologist and internationally recognised human rights activist. She is a Professor Emerita and the author of five books, including the landmark work Female Sexual Slavery published in 1979. Kathleen has been a close friend of FiLiA for a number of years and we are honoured to be speaking with her on this podcast. She joined a FiLiA weekend by Skype to handhold the team through our first Consciousness Raising session. Her book Susan B Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist was the inspiration for the decision to take FiLiA out of London and to a different city every year - one of the best decisions we made.

    Kathleen’s Website

    Books

    30 min
  • #062 FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe
    Sam Walshe speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager and having disclosable criminal records. She participated in a legal case brought by three women (including Fiona Broadfoot) formerly involved in prostitution, which challenged the Government’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Regulations. After an unhappy childhood marred with violence and sexual abuse, Sam was exploited into prostitution at the age of 14. She was trafficked between Bristol and London on the streets, in brothels, massage parlours and escort agencies. By the time she escaped her pimp she was hooked on crack and heroin and remained on the streets to feed her habit. Sam has been drug free for 14 years and off the streets for the same time. She has 2 children and helps at a support project that works with sexually exploited women.
    31 min
  • #62 FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe

    Sam Walshe speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager and having disclosable criminal records.  She participated in a legal case brought by three women (including Fiona Broadfoot) formerly involved in prostitution, which challenged the Government’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Regulations. After an unhappy childhood marred with violence and sexual abuse, Sam was exploited into prostitution at the age of 14. She was trafficked between Bristol and London on the streets, in brothels, massage parlours and escort agencies. By the time she escaped her pimp she was hooked on crack and heroin and remained on the streets to feed her habit. Sam has been drug free for 14 years and off the streets for the same time. She has 2 children and helps at a support project that works with sexually exploited women.

    Sam spoke at FiLiA in 2019 on the Issue of Criminal Records for Prostituted Women.

    Read about the legal case at the Centre for Women’s Justice.

    Find out more information on the 2018 ruling.

    31 min
  • #061 FiLiA meets: Bev Jackson - LGB Alliance
    Bev Jackson set up the LGB Alliance together with Kate Harris in October 2019. LGB Alliance is a lesbian-led organization for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals that emphasizes the importance of biological sex, not gender identity, when talking about sexual orientation. The best ways to support LGB Alliance are to follow it on Twitter at @AllianceLGB (and get all your friends to follow it as well!), find it on Facebook and to donate at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lgb-alliance
    Those who want to get involved can use the contact form on the website lgballiance.org.uk
    39 min
  • #61 FiLiA meets: Bev Jackson - LGB Alliance

    Bev Jackson set up the LGB Alliance together with Kate Harris in October 2019. LGB Alliance is a lesbian-led organization for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals that emphasizes the importance of biological sex, not gender identity, when talking about sexual orientation. The best ways to support LGB Alliance are to follow it on Twitter at @AllianceLGB (and get all your friends to follow it as well!), find it on Facebook and to donate at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lgb-alliance

    Those who want to get involved can use the contact form on the website lgballiance.org.uk

    Read the LGB Alliance Guide on the Scottish GRA Consultation

    Read FiLiA’s Sex Gender and Legal Reform

    39 min
  • #060 FiLiA meets: Manu Schon
    Manu Schon is a sociologist and radical feminist blogger for the Blog “Die Störenfriedas.” She is an anti-prostitution activist, co-founder of Abolition 2014 and LINKE – for a world without prostitution. Manu runs (together with others) SEX INDUSTRY KILLS – documenting homicides and attempted homicides in prostitution. In this podcast, she is joined in conversation with Heather Brunskell-Evans to discuss the subject of prostitution, the experience of German women and the sex industry and why feminists ought to support the Nordic Model.
    This podcast was recorded prior to the FiLiA Conference in 2019, where Manu spoke on Feminist Perspectives on the Sex Trade.
    46 min
  • #60 FiLiA meets: Manu Schon

    Manu Schon is a sociologist and radical feminist blogger for the Blog “Die Störenfriedas.” She is an anti-prostitution activist, co-founder of Abolition 2014  and LINKE – for a world without prostitution. Manu runs (together with others) SEX INDUSTRY KILLS – documenting homicides and attempted homicides in prostitution. In this podcast, she is joined in conversation with Heather Brunskell-Evans to discuss the subject of prostitution, the experience of German women and the sex industry and why feminists ought to support the Nordic Model. 

    This podcast was recorded prior to the FiLiA Conference in 2019, where Manu spoke on Feminist Perspectives on the Sex Trade.

    LINKS

    SEX INDUSTRY KILLS
    MANUELA SHON
    FACEBOOK
    TWITTER

    This podcast was edited by  wonderful FiLiA volunteer Toyin Jimoh

    46 min
  • #059 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 many different areas including as an aerialist in the Performing Older Women's Circus, organising writers festivals and feminist conferences. She is the author of fifteen books: three fiction, nine poetry and three non-fiction. In Uganda in 2002, a woman said to her, "Be careful, in Uganda lesbians are tortured." This set her on the path to researching why she had not heard this before.  From 2003 onwards she has written numerous research papers, spoken on the subject of the torture of lesbians at conferences in India, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, South Korea, USA and Australia to almost no effect. In 2017, her novel Dark Matters was published. She hopes one day to reach a wider audience. Her poetry collections The Butterfly Effect (2005), Cow (2011) Lupa and Lamb (2014) and The Sacking of the Muses (2019) also deal with violence against lesbians and the importance of lesbian culture.
    She spoke at the FiLiA conference in 2019 on two panels: violence against lesbians and feminist publishing.
    1 hr 4 min

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