FiLiA
Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights
#FiLiA2027 is in Blackpool, Lancashire
Tickets and so much more @ linktr.ee/filiauk
- FiLiA blog: FGM: Everything about you is violated by this. Today is Int'l Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. ‘I always saw Women as one… We should fight abuse as one’. 🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/2024/2/2/fgm #NoFGM #EndFGM #Invest2EndFGM
- Deepfake abuse is a clear violation of women’s rights and has a long-lasting, traumatic impact on victims. Today it becomes a criminal offence. But the law must go further to prevent this harm from happening. #StopImageBasedAbuse
- The Network Against Non-State Torture (NNST), a global Women’s revolution dedicated to naming, exposing and dismantling Non-State Torture crimes against Women and Girls, held their launch #webinar yesterday. Watch a recording here ⬇️ 📺 youtu.be/A5oth51iyuM #nonstatetorture
- This launch webinar is later this afternoon - see link to join below... #NonStateTorture
- The Network Against Non-State Torture emerged from a small gathering at #FiLiA2025, after the Non-State Torture: Advocacy, Activism & Healing panel. Their launch #webinar is next week, join here➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/81048261222 #NST #WomenUnsilenced #NNST
- Today the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill will be debated in the Scottish parliament. We ask Scottish MSPs to attend & engage in the debate and ensure they take this opportunity to stand with survivors and hear their calls for protection. 🔗 www.parliament.scot/bills-and-la...
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- ‘The naming of non-State torture is crucial for Women's healing’ 🎙️ podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/epis... To mark the creation of a Network Against Non-State Torture, its launch next week & conference in November, this podcast episode explores the human rights violation of non-State Torture.
- The FiLiA Trade Union Women's Network met today to strategise for 2026. This was followed by a fascinating evening spent with sisters at the Marx Memorial Library, with a tour of their incredible building and an archive workshop on Annie Mills. Thanks to the Marx Memorial Library for hosting us!
- ✨A few tickets left for this week's Women-only tour of the Marx Memorial Library #London and workshop on Annie Mills, the little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. 🗓️ Wednesday 28th January 6pm 📍 Marx Memorial Library 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML #UnionsForWomen
- 📢Also this week, our online Women-only group for Women across #Wales – ‘Make Them Listen: Amplifying Welsh Women's Voices’.📢 🗓️ Thursday 29th January 🕖 7-8.30PM 🌐 Online via Zoom/Ar-Lein trwy Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-ZoomWales #FWAZoomWales
- 📢Happening later today – an ONLINE FiLiA Women's Assembly focus group on the Gov't's consultation on Earned Settlement📢 🗓️ Tonight 7PM 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FWAEarnedSettlement We’ll take you through the consultation & provide opportunities for you to have your say.
- ‘We don't stop being Lesbians because we get old.’ New on the #FiLiA blog – a transcript of the speech given by Lynn Alderson on the Building Lesbian Community session at #FiLiA2025 in #Brighton 🔗⬇️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
- ★ Starved, Protested, Arrested: Unearthing Annie Mills at the Marx Memorial Library ★ Join us on this Women-only tour of Marx Memorial Library & workshop on Annie Mills, little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement. 🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
- Don't forget, tomorrow is another FiLiA Women's Assembly event, FiLiA Fire 🔥in #Bolton – a FREE Women-only group, which meets monthly. 🗓️ Saturday 24th January 🕖 7-9PM 📍 Bolton, Greater Manchester 🎟️ bit.ly/JanFiLiAFire #FiLiAFire ❤️🔥 #Manchester 🐝
- Along with our other events, #FiLiAFeministFriday, our Women-only group in #Glasgow, resumes later this month! ‘Our Voices, Our Demands’: Women’s voices in the Scottish election and beyond. 🗓️ Friday 30th January 7pm 📍 Central Glasgow 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAFeministFriday #ScottishElection
- ‘Thank you, and well done – considering this is accomplished by volunteers, it's nothing short of amazing.’ Become a Friend of FiLiA 🔗 filia.org.uk/friends-of-filia #Sisterhood #Solidarity #FiLiA2027
- #FiLiA2025 was captured by our two official photographers. @makoveitchoux.bsky.social joined us for set up day and her pictures show the monumental effort from our volunteers, fetching and carrying, setting up stalls, putting up posters, creating space for 2,500 Women before the doors opened.
- #NewYear means new FiLiA Women's Assembly events – towards the end of January, our online Women-only group for Women across #Wales – ‘Make Them Listen!’ 🗓️ Thursday 29th January 🕖 7-8.30PM 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-ZoomWales #FWAZoomWales
- #NewYear means new FiLiA Women's Assembly events – next, an ONLINE focus group on the Gov't consultation on Earned Settlement. 🗓️ Tuesday 27th January 7PM 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FWAEarnedSettlement We’ll take you through the consultation & provide opportunities for you to have your say.
- #NewYear means new FiLiA Women's Assembly events – first up, FiLiA Fire 🔥in #Bolton – a FREE Women-only group, which meets monthly. 🗓️ Saturday 24th January 🕖 7-9PM 📍 Bolton, Greater Manchester 🎟️ bit.ly/JanFiLiAFire #FiLiAFire ❤️🔥 #Manchester 🐝
- More 📹#FiLiA2025 – Lesbians: Inspiring Each Other to Action! ♀️♀️ 📺 youtu.be/lu4U9TgNo7I Hosted by Sam Foster ~ with Résistance Lesbienne, Lepa Mlađenović, Myriam Fougère on La Maison des RebElles, Sam & Miranda Imperial from London Lesbian Collective & closing words from @akuareindorfkc.bsky.social
- From #FiLiA2025 ~ From Arrival to Survival: The Class Question in Migration with @rahilag.bsky.social, Salome Mbugua, Hannana Siddiqui & Faty Kane. ‘For me this is the biggest Women's rights violation, hiding in plain sight.’ ~ Faty Kane 📺 youtu.be/K4F1yWxxZ7E #MigrantWomen #MigrantWomenStories
- From #FiLiA2025: Why Do I Have to Hide Away? The Far-Right Riots and the Feminist Fight Back. 📺 youtu.be/Of-8PQmk2x4 Drawing on the report by The Angelou Centre & @projectresist.bsky.social ~ with Rosie Lewis, Faty Kane, Pragna Patel, Padma Rao and poet Loraine Mponela
- From #FiLiA2025 📹Celebrating Dissent: Blasphemous Women with @maryamnamazie.bsky.social, Yasmine El Baramawy and Soukaina Elhamdou (M.A.L.I). ▶️ youtu.be/6XgszgobRJs #BlasphemousWomen #CelebratingDissent #FreeBetty #FreeBettyLachgar
- #FiLiA2025 📽️Self Defence Is No Offence: Launch of a New Campaign on Behalf of Women Who Kill, with Pragna Patel & Harriet Wistrich & chair @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social 📺 youtu.be/4aLl_AOK6-A Centre for Women's Justice campaign to highlight #misogyny & injustice in the CJS & what needs to change.
- Later this month, join us for a Women-only tour of the Marx Memorial Library & workshop on Annie Mills, the little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. 🗓️ Wednesday 28th January 6pm 📍 Marx Memorial Library 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML #UnionsForWomen #London
