Our response to this afternoon's Spending Review:
www.agendaalliance.org/news/agendaa...

Very pleased to be part of this research team involving hundreds of people but with one consistent message: the system is broken.

www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

Love this.

Huge thanks to @davinajh.bsky.social for her #education session with the #FiLiA volunteer collective this evening ‘Domestic Abuse Related Deaths - are we learning the lessons?’

Davina has spent the last 40 years working in the #MVAWG sector and she will be speaking at #FiLiA2025 #linkinourbio

Fifty years ago, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest – why do so few people know her story? Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

Just amplifying this bit of women's history...

theconversation.com/fifty-years-...

Women for Refugee Women : Safety and Survival: How the Work Ban Fuels Violence Against Women Seeking Asylum New research uncovers how the work ban harms women seeking safety in the UK, placing them at risk of abuse and exploitation.

📢BREAKING

Our report #SafetyAndSurvival uncovers shocking findings about the impact of the work ban on women seeking asylum.

Instead of finding safety, women are retraumatised and harmed.

www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s... [Content warning: rape, sexual assault, suicidality]

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‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener Fanny Wilkinson designed 75 parks in the capital, the first UK female landscape gardener to be paid for her work

Love this

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Schools in England and Wales urged to teach relationship violence prevention Youth Endowment Fund says specialised lessons needed to tackle issues such as abuse, consent and coercion

How many more times does this need to be said before something changes?

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere When Jess Davies was 15, a boy leaked pictures she’d shared with him. At 18, she was a glamour model. A few years later, another man violated her trust. Then she fought back

No One Wants to See Your D*ck

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Pregnancy and Prison. Do not mix. — Centre for Women's Justice The second in a series of guest blogs from Dame Vera Baird DBE KC.

Pregnancy and prison. Do not mix.
www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/new-blog-1/2...

Very honoured to be a speaker at this year's conference and very excited to meet up with so many sisters!

Murders of two female students prompt calls for a ‘cultural rebellion’ in Italy Sara Campanella and Ilaria Sula were found within 48 hours of each other, bringing the number of femicides in 2025 to 11

An “incisive action of prevention” is now needed to stop this “continuous slaughter of women”. And not just in Italy.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’ One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselves

Love this story.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is shameful.

Wildlife Whale Wash 🐋 #NatureEncounter #shorts YouTube video by Daily Paw News

Who knew such a service existed?

BUT - how do the whales know it's time to get cleaned and why are they not freaked out?

www.youtube.com/shorts/oqtJY...

AGENDA ALLIANCE - VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINE 2025 YouTube video by Agenda Alliance

This is brilliant.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxn...

‘I screamed and the world listened’: how astronaut Amanda Nguyen survived rape to fight for other victims Assaulted at 22, Nguyen was shocked to find she would have to pay for her rape evidence kit – which might be destroyed long before any court case. She talks about her battle for survivors’ rights, and...

What a hero.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Meet the Feminist Resistance Fighter Who Created the Modern Kitchen Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky left an indelible mark on Austria, architecture, and how we cook.

Remembering our foremothers
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mar...

Does climate change increase violence towards women? | Context Extreme heat, storms and food insecurity fuel violence against women as climate change ramps up risk factors

Please could something happen in the world that makes it a better place for women?

www.context.news/climate-just...

Who Decides Women Are Mad? Trigger warning: domestic violence

This 👎

'Defending Wellings, John Jones KC described Miss Dawes as ‘a troubled young lady.’ She who was on the receiving end of his client’s fist. She was the troubled one?'

Who decides women are mad?

annawharton.substack.com/p/who-decide...

In the DRC, rape is rife. How can women recover in a war zone? Near the eastern city of Goma, charities such as MSF are reporting rising numbers of refugees who are victims of rape and torture

I dream of a world where men stop raping and killing us.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

'Far too many men are immersed in the kind of rape culture on display in this trial'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A beige square with texture of paper reads: Stop punishing domestic abuse survivors: provide support. STOP PUNISHING SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE. We are calling for the government to commit to end the unfair punishment of survivors of domestic abuse.

🚨 Stop Punishing Domestic Abuse Survivors 🚨
Too often women are criminalised for offences resulting from abuse

We join 100+ orgs & individuals calling for:
✅ An end to survivor criminalisation
✅ Support, not punishment

https://bit.ly/StopPunishingSurvivors
#StopPunishingSurvivors

Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity Restoring age-old land rights has enabled 300 villagers to build a prosperous business and halt the exodus to the city

This cheered me up this morning.
'The gram sabha has also [implemented] the same pay for men & women... There is no hierarchy – the person chairing a meeting becomes the decision-maker for that day and could be chopping wood the next.'

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer I just read a paper from the discipline of conversation analysis.  It dovetails nicely with what I wrote in Talking Past Each Other, and I’m going to go through some of the findings (I can&#8…

For the men in the Pilcot trial still claiming they don't understand consent and for their apologists:

yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/m...

I'm pleased Pelicot and the others have been convicted but my heart still cries for Gisèle. 💔

Why do some men behave badly? I think I have the answer From an early age boys are treated as though they are smarter and more talented than girls. It can lead to a damaging overconfidence

'However far we think we have progressed towards gender equality, men are still much more likely than women to feel a sense of entitlement and superiority'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And men call us golddiggers?

Take action #FixTheCMS

>>>Ask the men in your lives what their child payment arrangements are

>>>Use our QUICK email template
💰 brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-ten-r...

#16Days #16Actions #RespectWomen #SistersSalonBrighton

Rape survivors like Gisèle Pelicot are choosing to speak out, refuting the idea that they should feel shame The high-profile rape case of Gisele Pelicot in France speaks to a possible shift following the rise of the #MeToo movement

Survivors should never feel shame.
theconversation.com/rape-survivo...

'My biggest fear is more children will be murdered like Holly' Holly Newton's mother reacts to new survey findings about coercive control in young relationships.

🧵 Shocking new research from @youthendowmentfund.org.uk shows the extent of our failure to support young people experiencing domestic abuse and sexual violent...

🔺 49% of teenagers in a relationship in the last year have experienced violent or controlling behaviour from their partner.