FiLiA

 

2 February 2021

 

FiLiA

76 posts today

For those who are looking for more books following on from the #OurFeministLibrary today .... @newsfromnowhere is an independent radical community bookshop. 'It's run on a not-for-profit basis and ... a women's collective' https://t.co/E1U3jl...

February 2nd @ 4:40 pm |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @MichelleResists: @FiLiA_charity I’d hold meetings for survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault, feminists know how to help heal and help you move on and grow from your trauma. #OurFeministLibrary

February 2nd @ 4:24 pm |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @shelldiasSW: @FiLiA_charity @Womans_Place_UK I want to include 'Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches' by Audre Lorde in #OurFeministLibrary... Lorde unflinchingly takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, whilst offering messages of ...

February 2nd @ 4:22 pm |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @GrRoary: @Womans_Place_UK The first book I ever read on radical feminism, picked up from a charity shop when I was about 14. Changed my life. https://t.co/BE4FOS...

February 2nd @ 12:42 pm |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @fodohpf: @Womans_Place_UK I am a huge Ani DiFranco fan - I know. But I also think her story is inspirational for women in/entering the music industry - or any other industry really. https://t.co/wd1Iiz...

February 2nd @ 12:41 pm |

FiLiA

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RT @hstanley_: @Womans_Place_UK The late Sue Lloyd-Roberts changed my life with this book.b The war on women and the brave ones who fight back. https://t.co/lWWSWS...

February 2nd @ 12:40 pm |

FiLiA

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RT @Blackbox666: @FiLiA_charity So many! and many have been mentioned already. But #OurFeministLibrary needs all the Maya Angelou & Alice Walker as they started my journey. A passion for friends, Janice Raymond. Dear Ijeawele, Chimamanda Ngozi ...

February 2nd @ 12:37 pm |

FiLiA

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RT @carrmaluca: @FiLiA_charity Essential (both in Spanish): "Ahora, Feminismo", @AmeliaValcarcel and "Siempre han hablado por nosotras", Najat El Hachmi. #OurFeministLibrary https://t.co/NBp2ut...

February 2nd @ 12:36 pm |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @KatharineQ: Wollstonecraft, Shange, Walker and Jordan - the last of whom said: “If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.” #ourfeministlibrary https://t.co/ZD4EvQ...

February 2nd @ 11:02 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @RethinkingEve: @FiLiA_charity Thank you for this question! 👏👏 - I have a library that I would love to share - To begin I was taught by Marilyn French in college - she has been forgotten by many - this 4 volume set is brilliant - ...

February 2nd @ 11:01 am |

FiLiA

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RT @LinaAlhathloul: بحسب قرار المحكمة فإنه من المنتظر أن يكون الافراج عن لجين قريب لكن الافراج عنها و منعها عن السفر لا يعتبر حرية بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، احمل الحكومة المسؤولية عن صحتها وحياتها وأي وفاة محتملة بعد إطلاق سراحها #لا_تقتلوا_لجين ...

February 2nd @ 9:52 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @M_Addison_Clare: #OurFeministLibrary I remember watching shes beautiful when shes angry and I needed to see this book in real life. I have the UK version too. Imagine this being made now...quite unimaginable really. Something by and for women ...

February 2nd @ 9:45 am |

FiLiA

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RT @Whatfreshhell5: In about 1400 Christine de Pisan sat down to relax with some light romantic verse. But the way women were portrayed by the male poet so disgusted and distressed her, she was inspired to write the first work of female separatism: ...

February 2nd @ 9:45 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @Whatfreshhell5: Vera Brittain was among the first generation of women to gain a degree from Oxford. I sobbed when I read 'Testament of Youth'. Just read it. #OurFeministLibrary https://t.co/r9IKvK...

February 2nd @ 9:45 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

RT @HanoverHussy: #ourfeministlibrary I’m sick of the masquerade, sick of pretending eternal youth. I’m sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex, sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed ...

February 2nd @ 9:44 am |

FiLiA

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RT @jo_bartosch: The @feministlibrary have the keys to 46 years of women’s learning & history. My latest on the banning of feminists from the Feminist Library. With thanks to @FiLiA_charity for quotes. https://t.co/Pswuvw...

February 2nd @ 7:58 am |

FiLiA

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RT @ClaireShrugged: You know me. I can never resist tweeting about books. So here are a selection of texts I’d add to #OurFeministLibrary... mostly written by women of colour & lesbians. Will update throughout the day. 📚

February 2nd @ 7:36 am |

FiLiA

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RT @yarnydeb: @FiLiA_charity The Great Cosmic Mother, Barbara Mor and Monica Sjöö. Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly. All of Andrea Dworkin, obviously. Mysogynies, Joan Smith.

February 2nd @ 5:58 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

A year ago today we were at #WomensLib2020 with c1000 women debating and organising. A lot has happened in a year but the fight for women’s spaces goes on. To mark the day we want you to help us build #OurFeministLibrary online. Let’s archive! ...

February 2nd @ 3:00 am |

FiLiA

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Tua is a #lesbian from #Cameroon who finally received her leave to remain in the United Kingdom in 2019. During her escape, she was exploited and trafficked to England where she faced the shameful policies of the UK's #HostileEnvironment ...

February 2nd @ 1:50 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

Thank you MC for becoming a Friend of FiLiA! Your monthly donations will go directly to support Women to paricipate in FiLiA who otherwise would not be able to. Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team https://t.co/jN98L8... https://t.co/tP79t7...

February 2nd @ 1:43 am |

FiLiA

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'The UK is still not complying with an international agreement to prevent violence against women and girls, eight years after signing up to it The so-called #IstanbulConvention has been signed by 45 countries, but 12 including the UK have yet to ...

February 2nd @ 1:30 am |

FiLiA

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'In Denmark, Sweden and the UK, women who have already been subjected to domestic violence in their home countries experience arrests and removal to detention centres when their cases for asylum are refused.' https://t.co/wm3bKW...

February 2nd @ 1:27 am |

FiLiA

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"It's actually quite ironic... I'm not allowed on the track for safety reasons, but I don't feel safe where I'm training now," added Great Britain and Wales sprinter Hannah Brier. https://t.co/eb2JVt...

February 2nd @ 1:21 am |

FiLiA

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“We also have had a significant number of cases of women, some of them underage girls, being forced to strip by the Croatian police,” Nicola Bay, the Danish Refugee Council’s Bosnia director https://t.co/8nDVJI...

February 2nd @ 1:17 am |

FiLiA

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Self harm in women’s prisons “While men’s prisons have found some measure of respite through lockdown measures, the increase in self-injury in women’s prisons is stark and extremely concerning". Frances Crook, chief executive of @TheHowardLeague said ...

February 2nd @ 12:51 am |

FiLiA

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Beware those who advocate for decriminalisation of the sex trade but do not prioritise lobbying government for fully funded effective exit programmes @HMcEntee Never forget - the vast majority of Women in the sexual exploitation industries want to ...

February 2nd @ 12:41 am |

FiLiA

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“I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer,” he said. His representatives said that Mr. Manson’s comment in Spin was “obviously a theatrical rock star interview promoting a new record.” We Believe Evan Rachel Wood ...

February 2nd @ 12:31 am |

FiLiA

76 posts today

Centring Lesbians @Martina ... became involved in LGB activism, having participated in a lawsuit that contested Amendment 2, a ballot proposition in Colorado that prohibited sexual orientation from being a protected characteristic #LGBHistory ...

February 2nd @ 12:26 am |