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Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes spoke at the FiLiA Conference in 2019:

I am an activist, EFL teacher, sociologist, feminist Lesbian, writer and publisher.

As a feminist Lesbian writer and reader, I practise Sym/biography and Flourishing (two concepts I have coined and developed throughout the years).

As a publisher I give huge importance to the enmeshing of both concepts above in a wider system called Bibliodiversity.

As a writer, I love to ‘memory’ in company, so I form part of Las Juanas (feminist literary collective of women), SLAP (Latin-American poets and writers) and to Exiled Writers Ink.

I teach English to Syrian refugees in Shropshire (as part of the Refugee Council) and I am one of the three Directors of the Festival El Sueño Existe.

I am also a member of the Autobiography Study Group of the British Sociological Association

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• La Liberación de la Eva Desgarrada (1990) Poetry
• Arena En la Garganta (2011) Poetry
• Wonder-Makers: Navigators of the Thames: Stories and other narratives (2016) Bilingual Spanish-English with Las Juanas literary collective
• Wonder-Makers: Navigators of the Thames (2015) (Bilingual Spanish-English Poetry with Las Juanas

Jalna Hanmer is a Professor of Women’s Studies who has been influential in developing our theory and understanding of male violence against women and established early Women’s Studies courses at the University of Bradford.  In 1974 Jalna was involved in setting up the National Women’s Aid Federation (NWAF) and later the Women’s Aid Federation England (WAFE). She also was part of the organising group for the international conference on multiple forms of violence against women (WOVA) held in Brighton in 1996. She was a founder member of the radical feminist journal, Trouble & Strife, and is a founder member of Feminist Archive North. 50 years on from her first involvement with the women’s movement, Jalna is now involved in the Campaign to End the Leeds Sex Trade. She is joined in conversation with FiLiA’s Sally Jackson. 

Please support the Campaign to End the Leeds Sex Trade by visiting the CELST website or emailing [email protected]   

Hala Aldosari, PhD, Saudi Arabia/USA, is a scholar-activist best known for advocating for women’s rights and protection from violence in Saudi Arabia. Her writing, speaking, and activism focuses on ending the country’s oppressive male-guardianship law and reforming family law. She was part of the protest to end the driving ban in Saudi Arabia; founded Aminah, an online resource center to promote full citizenship rights of Saudi women; and hosted a radio show for women’s rights. Hala’s activism and extensive writing for international media draw from her research on women’s health, women’s rights, and violence against women in Saudi Arabia.

Currently, she is at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) as its Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow conducting research on successful initiatives of women’s rights in the Arab countries and will use her fellowship to establish an advocacy organization to advance women’s and human rights in Saudi Arabia. Hala was previously a scholar in residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University, where she examined the intersection of reproductive health and women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. In 2018, she was awarded the Alison Des Forges Award by Human Rights Watch for her extraordinary activism. Hala is part of the steering committee for the Every Woman Treaty to end violence against women and girls. For this podcast, she is joined in conversation with FiLiA’s Sadia Hameed.

Find out more about the Every Woman Treaty and Sign

Sian Norris is a feminist activist, writer, poet, journalist, copywriter and producer. She is the founder and director of the Bristol Women’s Literature festival. In her journalism she specialises in feminism, LGBT rights and the rise of the Far Right. For this podcast, Sian is joined in conversation by FiLiA volunteer Alice to discuss her work, including Sian’s piece Revealed: controversial plan to boost religious lobby in Brussels as far right pledges to fight for Christian Europe. 

(Please note, this discussion was recorded before the changes in abortion legislation in Northern Ireland!)

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Article about the rise of the Far Right in Europe

Sian Norris Website 

Blog: Sian and crooked rib 

Bristol Women’s Literature Festival

Twitter: @sianushka

Angela C. Wild is a lesbian feminist activist, writer, researcher and a political artist. Her work focuses on promoting uncompromising lesbian visibility, building lesbian culture, fighting for women-only-spaces as well as challenging compulsory heterosexuality, institutionalised femininity, motherhood and pornography.

She is a founding member of Get The L Out lesbian activist group and author of Lesbians At Ground Zero the first research on the cotton ceiling.

She is a contributor to the radical feminist journal 'Rain and Thunder'. Her work is featured in the 'Archives Recherche Culture Lesbiennes' in Paris. She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Women’s Studies.

She spoke at the FiLiA conference 2019 on the panel Violence Against Lesbians.

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Adrienne Rich - Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence

Angela C. Wild - A bundle of Joy 

Get The L Out Website 

Wild Womyn Workshop

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