From #FiLiA2025 ‘Understanding Heterosexuality, A Path to Women's Liberation’, with @wildwomynworkshop.bsky.social, @liverbirdxx.bsky.social, Lynn Alderson & Tabata Spinster.

📺 youtu.be/IsHq7tZCc-8

For Women interested in a radfem analysis of the construction of sexuality.

#WomensHistoryMonth

Exciting Outcome of FiLiA Panel on Non-State Torture (NST) - FiLiA "The naming of non-State torture is crucial for women's healing"At FiLiA2025 , Linda MacDonald, Mariane da Cunha, Elizabeth Gordon and Jeanne Sarson presented a panel on Non-State Torture. An idea tha...

The NNST emerged from a gathering at #FiLiA2025 – listen to FiLiA #podcast episode #214 on this.

‘The naming of non-State torture is crucial for Women's healing’.

podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/epis...

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

Older Lesbians — FiLiA When women age we become increasingly invisible in our culture, and this applies even more so to lesbians. This was a short speech given as part of the lesbian stream of workshops and events at FiLiA ...

‘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

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www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

One of our guests, Jennie Lazenby, also documented her journey through the venue and sessions and gives a view of the weekend from an attendee perspective. See all the incredible pictures on FiLiA’s @Flickr.

📸 flickr.com/photos/194258062@N03/albums

#FiLiA2025

Our other photographer, Maggy Dago, also joined us for #FiLiA2025.

Both sets of pictures show the vibrancy, #sisterhood and magic 🔮 that happens at #FiLiA. FiLiA would like to take the opportunity to thank both of these Women for their hard work and editing.

#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.

Brilliant session - my favourite from #FILIA2025 weekend.
#womenshistory
#womeninhistory
#womensrights

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.

A #NewYearsDay treat from #FiLiA2025: Centring Women: Our Global Histories and Activism.

📺 youtu.be/4MLLj-Icqx8

Restoring Women to Cultural Memory – an inspirational session with @maxdashu.bsky.social 🔗 suppressedhistories.net

#WomensHistory #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026

More from #FiLiA2025, ‘Pornography Exposed: How a Normalised Industry Destroys Lives’.

📺 youtu.be/qvw5_kOMCUc

With Gail Dines @culturereframed.bsky.social via Zoom, Vaishnavi Sundar, Valerie Tender and two French activists – and chaired by Luba Fein.

#PornHarms #ListenToSurvivors #EndOfYear

Some #endofyear treats for you – with some more recordings from #FiLiA2025 🔥🎉

First up: ‘Why Does Women's History Keep Being Erased?’

📺 youtu.be/_DqB6oYEirg

With Onjali Rauf, @rachelhewitt.bsky.social, Susanna Rustin and @glosswitch.bsky.social

#HappyNewYear2026 #HappyNewYear #WomensHistory

Thank you @filiacharity.bsky.social for sharing this! We were delighted to be able to take part in #FiLiA2025 💜

Another gift for your #ChristmasDay 🎄🎁

From #FiLiA2025 – State Punishment, State Sanctions and the Fight for Women's Rights ♀️

📺 youtu.be/OTy4Uz3VWdE

With @jophoenix1.bsky.social, @atenadaemi.bsky.social (interpreter Tooba Zakipoor), Maggy Moyo & @qmarziababakarkh.bsky.social #WomensRights

A #ChristmasDay present for you all!🎄🎁

From #FiLiA2025: LESBIANS COUNT! Our Voices, Our Views, Our Lives ♀️♀️

📺 youtu.be/jHaQsVPl6Gg

Ava Van Aurich, Jenny Willmott @scotlesbians.bsky.social and Sue Regan – three connected talks with Australia, UK-wide & int'l perspectives #lesbians

On #HumanRightsDay, we present the film ‘For Gisèle’ from #FiLiA2025, a dance created in honour of Gisèle Pelicot that aims to give back a little of what Gisèle Pelicot gave us by standing up and speaking out ❤️‍🔥

📺 youtu.be/64upA9FvgEE

#ShameMustChangeSides #16Days #16DaysofActivism #GisèlePelicot

One in three Women will be subjected to sexual violence at least once during her lifetime. A third of us are Sarah.

#FiLiA2025 We are all Sarah 💙💚
📺 youtu.be/tlYW9nE6Ggo

With thanks to Sarah, Sisters Heal and @sisterssalon.bsky.social

#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #MVAWG #MeToo

#FiLiA2025: The State as Perpetrator of Violence Against Women, with chair Brownyn Winter & @maryamaldossari.bsky.social, Clarice Saadi, Ninotchka Rosca, @atenadaemi.bsky.social, with interpreter Tooba Zakipoor, & Froha Poya; @unsrvaw.bsky.social sent a statement.

📺 youtu.be/o7CLnIVfbHI

#16Days

At the #FiLiA2025 closing, our sisters from #Kakuma joined us via a live Zoom and as always, there is so much to learn from them – their resilience and their compassion and above all, their unwavering #Sisterhood and #Solidarity

📺 youtu.be/_NZ4hW4T8qYi

#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomenLeftBehind

For #16days, from #FiLiA2025, the session Caste is a Feminist Issue.

📺 youtu.be/j52q3aLQg_M

Vandana Aparanti, Terezia Rostas & Harumi Gellineau explored caste & stressed the urgency of cross-caste & Feminist #solidarity, with chair Sukhvinder Kaur @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social

#16DaysOfActivism

Standing on the shoulders of giants – our #FiLiA2025 session Remembering & Honouring Brighton’96 & its significance for the movement to end #MVAWG w/ @proflizkelly.bsky.social, @hilarymcc7.bsky.social & @purnasen.bsky.social, & Joan Scanlon remembering Jalna Hanmer.

📺 youtu.be/pBNetVkmUmQ

#16days

Today, we share the #Femicide session from #FiLiA2025 to mark the UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & to honour the Women’s lives stolen by male violence
@femicidecensus.bsky.social

📺 youtu.be/yHIyubZlqes

#IDEVAW #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW2025 #NoExcuse

Our first recording from #FiLiA2025, as shared by Sisters Heal, was in this week's #newsletter*

Read & watch here: mailchi.mp/filia/first-recording-from-filia2025

Sign up to receive here: explore.filia.org.uk/newsletter-signup

*The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted the mistake in our email! 🫣

Our FIRST #newsletter since #FiLiA2025 ♀️

Read here: mailchi.mp/filia/first-newsletter-since-filia2025

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Hard Parts of Coalition x FiLiA2025 in Brighton I say this because the critique of colonialism is ALSO a form of grief for the broken and bleeding bodies of women. If we cannot hear that in each other's vioces, we are lost.

Brava to #FiLiA2025 for an amazing weekend of feminist dreaming and connection.

The right brought the fight to you. May you endure and triumph. Your mission is vital.

Sisters, cousins, it was intense. I have thoughts.

A recap from the #filia2025 women’s liberation conference (representing that I attended to support our #haguemothers campaign). I got to spend time with some truly remarkable women that left me with a new gained power to keep going.

Thank you #FiLiA for that! ✊🏿💚💜🤍✊🏼

I had THE most brilliant #FiLiA2025 conference time with these wonderful, inspiring and determined women.

We laughed, made great plans together, nearly cried and laughed some more.