"The ability to tell stories is one of the things that makes us human, and telling our own story is the way we claim kinship with other people. It follows, then, that those whose stories are not told can never fully belong. My work is to make those ...
"Those whose stories are not told can never fully belong. My work is to make those marginalised women’s voices heard." @JaneTraies #FiLiA2021 | 16-17th October | Portsmouth https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/RIqVaN...
Tonight Lesbians & their children will sleep outside with just a blanket for protection Join our campaign to help State agencies are failing them @Refugees @UNHCRUK @UNRefugeesUK @UNHCR_Kenya @FCDOGovUk @KenyaGovt #Kakuma #Block13 #ALutaContinu ...
Things will be very changeable this year, for obvious reasons. Thank you all for planning to make the best of #FiLiA2021 Yasmin Morais can't make it, but we CANNOT WAIT to welcome her to #FiLiA2022 which we are already organising .... Sisterhood and ...
We received another email asking where our offices are The FiLiA conference is organised by volunteers from home / kitchen table / on the school run / before work / after the kids have gone to bed / in the campervan ..... you get the idea! Sisterhood ...
You won’t be on your own - we’ve recently taken on a wonderful Woman to support us in this area, and you will be working closely with her. #volunteer https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/xXLvqt...
Labrys Lit is committed to celebrating lesbian stories and voices. We want to connect lesbians with a rich cultural legacy ... #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://filia.org.u...
Labrys Lit is committed to celebrating lesbian stories and voices. We want to connect lesbians with a rich cultural legacy ... #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://t.co/BVh22t... https://t.co/GcrpTY...
Lesbians Refugees in Kakuma Camp attacked again, they are asking for your help. We mean you @Refugees @UNHCRUK @UNRefugeesUK @UNHCR_Kenya @FCDOGovUk @KenyaGovt Join our campaign to support them #Kakuma #Block13 #ALutaContinua https://t.co/pfs9Yn...
RT @EmmaHPrize: Can you help us fund accommodation and travel fares so that shortlisted nominees for this year's prize can attend the prize-giving event? https://t.co/FfsDlF...
"Women can love and support each other because we are part of a class that shares a history, memory, a combat and a common goal. If we unite, if we manage to share a common consciousness of what it is to be a woman, we are a political and cultural ...
"If we unite, if we manage to share a common consciousness of what it is to be a woman, we are a political and cultural force to be reckoned with...that's the very essence of the feminist fight." @AlyssaAhrabare #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | ...
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SATURDAY 21st AUGUST | 13:00-15:00 | DEMONSTRATION Organised by 8th March Women's Organisation (Iran-Afghanistan) and UK Middle East Women and Society Organisation National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London https://t.co/IAnKuZ...
We Stand with the Women and Peoples of Afghanistan! - https://t.co/9ZjDR4...
URGENT UPDATE FROM KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP Please join our camapign and hold UNHCR to account @Refugees @UNHCRUK @UNRefugeesUK @UNHCR_Kenya @FCDOGovUk @KenyaGovt #Kakuma #Block13 #ALutaContinua https://t.co/pfs9Yn...
We’re reading Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, by T Kira Madden, to be discussed on Sunday 29th of August. #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://t.co/BVh22t... https://t.co/DAcHf0...
You'll help us to identify and prioritise grant opportunities, complete the necessary forms for submission and monitor progress. https://t.co/VSOmVZ...
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RT @Mandy_Sanghera1: @FiLiA_charity I’ve been supporting with evacuations I have 3/4 members of the #LGBTQIA community who require support https://t.co/aV8kte... It’s important we support all human sadly #Gul the #Taliban Judge has threatened to kill ...
RT @AlyssaAhrabare: Next edition of the amazing feminist gathering @FiLiA_charity is right around the corner! I am looking forward to present a panel on political participation of young migrant women and sexualisation of girls with my brillant ...
Labrys Lit is a book group run by, for, and about lesbians. Every month we read a new novel, short story collection, or memoir written by a lesbian author. #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://filia.org.u...
Labrys Lit is a book group run by, for, and about lesbians. Every month we read a new novel, short story collection, or memoir written by a lesbian author. #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://t.co/BVh22t...
'the purpose of my letter is to make sure that any funder or commissioner refrains from dismissing women who raise this issue as ‘transphobic’ or ‘bigoted’ and that they begin to engage in discussions with specialist services in good faith' ...
Feminism For Women by Julie Bindel "Timely, necessary and important" J.K.Rowling "Enlightening, infuriating and hopeful" Martina Navratilova "Whoever gave away feminism, look out, because Julie Bindel wants it back" Cordelia Fine #FiLiA2021 ...
Feminism For Women by @bindelj "Timely, necessary and important" @jk_rowling "Enlightening, infuriating and hopeful" @Martina "Whoever gave away feminism ... Julie Bindel wants it back" Cordelia Fine #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth https:/ ...
* 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 * #159 Julie Macfarlane: A Force of Nature Against Patriarchal Abuse Please support the global campaign to ban NDA’s, organised by Dr Julie Macfarlane and campaigner Zelda Perkins, when it launches in September 2021. ...
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You will ideally have experience in grant applications, but if you are well organised, good at writing and willing to learn, you’d be really welcome too! https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/aRSQ0R...
Made in Washington: the tragedy of Afghanistan
'The war in Afghanistan was never about humanitarianism, democracy, or protecting women – and those now arguing that Western military engagement is needed to protect Afghan people are simply lying.' @ShabbirLakha https://t.co/qDkmhi...
UP Court Allows Lesbian Couple to Live Together
'However, both were adamant and remained firm on their decision of living together and repeatedly said that they were eligible to make their own choices.' https://t.co/dewuMi...
Politicians weaponise violence against Afghan women and girls to ‘legitimise racism’
Andrea Simon, director of End Violence Against Women Coalition, a leading UK organisation, told The Independent liberating women is not of “genuine interest” to far right groups. https://t.co/Q8PJle...
"We later continued the desert journey to Libya for another two months, drinking urine and victims’ dead bodies’ water. Many people were dropping dead in the desert." Fatima Atewe for @TheNationNews #EndDemand https://t.co/qMqzbp...
Feminist art: a graphic history
'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists’? The issue, she [Linda Nochlin] wrote in her essay, ‘lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education’.' ...
‘Disgrace’: Women tradies say they have no toilets
“The first thing I would do when arriving on site is try and find a toilet and make sure it is not down a dark alley or in a position where the girls would not be safe” [ @ETU_national ] is calling for laws to mandate safe female amenities on ...
Gender-based violence survivor shares her horrific story | Kempton Express
'When asked what she would say to her perpetrators given a chance to face them, she replies with “nothing, I just want them to die.”' Phindile Ngcobo for @KemptonExpress https://t.co/ywdcD8...
RT @nazranayusufzai: Obviously I am worried for all the girls of my country. These people are dangerous. I cannot believe it’s acceptable for Twitter that tweeps can harass & bully girls with absolute impunity. #MonitorSpaces ...
Small step. More to go. Thanks to @ncose your work on this. https://t.co/dQ6NYM...
RT @WomanchesterMMN: Our #HeartsForMurderedW... are still being created and today @DianeDear1 sent us these images of the FIFTY she has made and hopes to give us at #FiLiA2021 - so beautiful! 💔💚💜♀️ @JeanHatchet @FemicideCensus @CountDeadWomen ...