"It is not our job to question individual choices of women in prostitution. We must examine the system and the context in which women's choices take place" Anna ZobninaIn February 2024, Dunja Mijatović, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the

#203 #HerNameWasChloeHolland - A Mother’s campaign following her daughter’s suicide

Apr 17th, 2024 40m 56s

Tragically Chloe felt her only escape from the coercive and controlling behaviour she was subjected to was to end her own life. Her Mum Sharon wants the perpetrator held to account for her death and so is campaigning for a change in the law so

#202 Women's Ways, Women's Plays - A story of working class women's theatre

Apr 5th, 2024 1h 9m

"I just hope that in capturing these stories that we've done something to archive working class, women's experience and that it'll be there if people wanna watch it or read it. We've done our bit and we can use the methods to look at any issue

#201 Sarah Ditum Exposes the ‘TOXIC’ Nature of Pop Culture and Charts A Way Forward

Mar 15th, 2024 1h 20m

Raquel Rosario Sanchez and Sarah Ditum discuss the tropes and stereotypes about women in the public eye and how they reflect on the wider struggles women face in society. Ditum's clever analysis dissects how patriarchy operates to ensure that w

#200 Palestine and Israel: Women and the movement for peace

Mar 8th, 2024 1h 9m

This interview took place on January 25th 2024 and permission was given to share this week."We don't want to live in this violence, in this conflict anymore. We want to end it. And as Yael always said, we shouldn't, you know, keep managing the

#199 Widows for Peace with Margaret Owen OBE

Dec 29th, 2023 1h 1m

In this episode, Margaret Owen OBE founder of Widows for Peace (WPD) highlights the plight of the world’s dark secret of marginalised ‘invisible’ widows: a vast and growing number of women of all ages living in extreme poverty, forgotten, abuse

#198 Speak Out Survivors

Nov 6th, 2023 52m 22s

"It's not rocket science... you investigate the suspect, not the victim," – Harriet Wistrich.In this episode, Suzy Angus and Emma Bryson, survivors of sexual violence and founders of Speak Out Survivors, meet Dr Oona Brooks-Hay (Reader in Crimi

#197 Live From FiLiA 2023 Glasgow

Oct 23rd, 2023 50m 9s

"One of the things I love about the feminist movement is that we're each other's catalysts. We are always pushing each other to go for our dreams and to maybe try that project that we're thinking of, make it a reality somehow."Dr Bec Wonders re

#196 Hadley Freeman On Life Beyond Anorexia

Sep 28th, 2023 56m 15s

Hadley Freeman On Life Beyond Anorexia and Breaking Out of the Good Girl SocialisationIn this episode, Hadley Freeman discusses her latest book 'Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia' with FiLiA spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez, in which

#195 Consuelo Rivera Fuentes at FiLiA 2019

Sep 5th, 2023 19m 1s

"When they arrested me, I thought it was because I was protesting with other teachers, and students. But later, I realized that they targeted me and other women because I am a lesbian."We are paying tribute to Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, who has p

#194 Own My Life - a feminist recovery programme for domestic abuse survivors

Aug 14th, 2023 48m 46s

"Creating this women only space, we're creating a journey for women to be honouring each other, celebrating each other, and that's something that women haven't had much time with."Sally Jackson leads a discussion between Natalie Collins, creato

#193 Laetitia Ky Revolutionises the Feminist Politics of Afro Hair and Art

Aug 6th, 2023 1h 38m

We are delighted to interview Ivorian artist, social commentator and author Laetitia Ky on the FiLiA Podcast. She is a political artist known for her hair sculptures, which she uses to raise awareness about the structural inequality and oppress

#192 Faika El-Nagashi's Intersectional Politics are Here to Stay

Jul 5th, 2023 1h 35m

Austrian Parliamentarian Faika El-Nagashi joins FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez to discuss the intersectional nature of her multi-faceted work as a feminist politician, her defence of lesbian rights and her background as a campaigner f

#191 Discussion about the book Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win

Jun 26th, 2023 1h 2m

Lisa-Marie Taylor and Yagmur Uygarkizi interview authors Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald about their best-selling book, Women Unsilenced Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win. This episode welcomes Jeanette Westbrook and Elizabeth Gordo

#190 A Revindication of Middle-Aged Women with Victoria Smith, author of ‘HAGS’

May 17th, 2023 1h 13m

Feminist author Victoria Smith discusses her first book, ‘Hags’, about the demonisation of middle-aged women with FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez. Smith discusses the experiences which raised her awareness to the way middle-aged women

#189 Sex Trade Survivor's Fight to Shut Down an Escort Website

Apr 2nd, 2023 48m 48s

"We all understand what unwanted sex is; another word for that is rape. We all understand that, but when there's money involved, people suddenly don't seem to make that connection of what unwanted sex is bad for you. But if you're getting paid

#188 Woman! Life! Freedom! The Women-led Revolution

Mar 29th, 2023 1h 2m

Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born campaigner and writer living in the UK. Since the Islamic regime of Iran’s killing of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022 for ‘improper veiling,’ Maryam has been speaking on and organising protests in solidarity w

#187 Julie Bindel and Jalna Hanmer: "Men need to be held accountable for violence against women"

Mar 3rd, 2023 35m 33s

Jalna Hanmer is a feminist of 70 years. She was responsible for bringing women's studies to UK academia and was a founder of the National Women's Aid Federation. Jalna talks with Julie Bindel about her life's work and the forthcoming exhibition

#187 Home With My Children - Mothers' Voices

Feb 8th, 2023 12m 18s

We speak with documentary filmmaker Jenny Wat who is a member of our Hague Mothers team. Through her film 'Home with my Children' (watch the trailer here), Jenny is trying to raise awareness of the Hague Convention among mothers and safeguard m

#186 The Sex Buyers' Secrets Revealed

Jan 3rd, 2023 1h 15m

"When you normalize paid rape in prostitution, it becomes confusing to an entire culture, even for [the] government, to define what consent is and what isn't, what rape is and what isn't. "In this episode, FiLiA Volunteer Luba Fein talks to Dr

#185 Parenting After Coercive Control - an American Perspective

Dec 9th, 2022 50m 10s

Dr Christine Cocchiola talks to FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson about the impact of coercive control on children and the Mother-Child relationship and how to heal together after abuse.Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW is a Coercive Control A

#184 Sex Robots and Woman Hating with Caitlin Roper

Oct 11th, 2022 1h 23m

We are very pleased to share this interview by Raquel Rosario Sanchez with Caitlin Roper, author of “Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating” which has just been published by Spinifex Press.“Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating” exposes the inherent m

#183 Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers' Lives with Emma Katz

Sep 15th, 2022 2h 2m

Dr Emma Katz, a leading expert in coercive control and its impact on children is interviewed by FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson.A must for anyone working in the field or who cares about someone it has affected, Emma describes what coercive control

#182 Mother's Rights: Challenging the Family Court

Sep 8th, 2022 47m 35s

"A lot of the messages around domestic abuse is that you just leave, right? So you just walk out that door and everything's fine. Well, that really couldn’t be further from the truth."FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson talks to Natalie Page, founder o

#181 “Deep Deception”: When the Police Targets Women

Aug 23rd, 2022 1h 39m

"It was shocking. I felt a great sense of betrayal by the Police. How could they possibly do that to me? What right have they got? I've paid my taxes all my life and they spent that paying a man to come to sleep with me and deceive me. They wer