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FiLiA volunteer Salonika, interviews Lierre Keith and Julia Barnes about their book and documentary film, ‘Bright Green Lies’. Lierre and Julia explain how the environmental movement has now been highjacked by the ideas that harm the environment, and what we can do to reclaim the movement.

The discussion also highlights the relationship between the oppression of women and the destruction of the natural world and the parallel between the mainstream environmental movement and the mainstream feminist movement.

Journalist, author, co-founder of Justice for Women and Feminist activist Julie Bindel and founder of SPACE International Rachel Moran discuss one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade.

This episode of the FiLiA Podcast is the recording from the Audio Book Launch of Julie Bindel’s book ‘The Pimping of Prostitution. This new release is timely and pertinent. As the pro-prostitution lobby gathers pace in both the UK and elsewhere, so must the abolitionist movement, which is fully represented in this book.

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Gill discusses how her new book, History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement, showcases the campaigning zeal on which policies, services and awareness-raising on male violence against women in the UK and across the world were built by the women of the liberation movement.

Professor Alice Sullivan joins FiLiA volunteer Sara on the FiLiA podcast to explain why we need accurate data on sex in scientific research (and how it is especially important for women and girls), what happened regarding the sex question on the UK Census in 2021, institutional capture, and the chilling effect in universities on this topic.

Alice Sullivan is a Professor of Sociology and Head of Research at the UCL Social Research Institute and was director of the 1970 British Cohort study. She is outspoken on the importance of sex as a variable in data collection, and concerns over academic freedom on the issue of tensions between sex and gender identity.

Sharon Aitchison, Margaret Lynch and Dawn Fyfe, three Scottish sisters on the frontline of preserving the knowledge and expertise of the Specialist Women’s sector in Scotland speak to FiLiA trustee, Sally Jackson, after another service lost its contract to a generic provider.

It’s a frank, passionate and honest account of the situation, the causes and what we can all do about it. They discuss the history of the movement in Scotland, the importance of women-led services for women only and what survivors want and need from the services they access.