Category: women
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The long road to Farringdon
aka state of the Sisterhood 2025 ***NB there is a damning view of the Labour Party here, and a lot about FiLiA 2025 along the way, so I would like to make a distinction: whilst the Labour Party deserves to be despised, FiLiA is a unique and tremendously useful organisation, a charity which is largely…
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An orgy of destruction
Your Party, FiLiA, Zionism, the trans issue… People are asking now, is Your Party over? We never did figure out who ‘you’ is but, after New Year, local groups across the country who reckon we are us will be mustering to do what Your Party founding documents require, which is to organise, to further engage…
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A cascade of burning books
Three books, a short film and a talk This morning, I read somewhere that Israel has a huge mental health crisis to deal with after all the tormenting and killing of Palestinians the IDF have been doing in Gaza and across the West Bank. It made me think about what kind of trauma must be…
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This is what we mean by erasing women
‘Your Party’ have chosen the delegates for their first conference ‘by sortition’. They said this would ensure that a genuinely representative cross section of their supporters would be present. I suppose as we’re aiming for a ‘bottom up’ democracy, the fact that this has ruled out some of the natural leaders who’ve been working for…
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FiLiA – across the divide
A feminist response to the ‘feminist response to the silence around October 7th‘ I was going to write about this event. I watched the video, I took notes, I asked for help and a friend with better ears than me gave me her notes. I thought about the sisters sitting there, about the sterling work…
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Viva FiLiA!
It’s three weeks now since I got my hands on a copy of Rahila Gupta’s ‘British Feminism Through a FiLiA Lens.’ I’ve been reading furiously ever since, and have only just emerged. 384 closely printed pages about all that FiLiA has instigated, inspired or been a part of over the last ten years. To say…
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FiLiA: I had a bit of a tantrum
What it feels like Having been bawled out of the Labour Party, union activism and a whole load of less important things over Palestine, the sex-and-gender issue or both, I have, like vast numbers of others, been trying to help set up locally to be ready for the re-birth of left politics. When I sent…
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Genocide was stalking the corridors of conference
I’m just back from day one of FiLiA, the biggest (and I’d say the best) feminist conference in Europe. No time to say much yet, but there was one very, very urgent message: During the opening speeches, Rahila Gupta reminded everyone that what’s happening in Palestine is not something anyone can afford to ignore. I…
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The big row in Hastings (round two)
So, let me see if I can get this right. Hastings Women’s Voice, who wouldn’t let the Women’s Rights Network have a stall at their last do because WRN stand up for women’s rights (Women’s Voice think people who stand up for women’s rights are anti-abortion) are standing up for Queers for Palestine because Hastings…
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Two out of three ain’t bad, Zara Sultana, but we need all three
Like the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been so happy to see the New Left Party project get rolling, I read NLR’s interview with Zara Sultana with keen interest. Has she got what it takes to build on what the Corbyn movement in the Labour Party did a few years ago? There are so…
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