Read FiLiA's Male Violence against Women & Girls Global Lead, Sally Jackson's blog on why feminists mark the UN day for the elimination of #VAWG & why our activism can never be limited to #16days ✊ 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW #IDEVAW2025 #NoExcuse

#VAWG is a trade union issue... ‘the trade union movement itself – still need to take the crisis of violence against women more seriously’. @kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA TU Women’s Network writes for @mstaronline.bsky.social for #IDEVAW & the #16Days morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol...

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

#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1960, sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were assassinated for their political opposition to the Dominican dictator Trujillo. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #16Days 🗃️ 1/2

Femicide: the killing of a woman or girl, by a man and on account of her sex The facts: >In 2022 men used the brute force of their own bodies in 17% of killings by kicking, hitting and stamping a woman to death. Take action to end femicide #ActivismWorks brightonsisters.wordpress.com/femicide/

Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor was told by her record label to look more feminine, which she not only ignored but rebelled against. She later wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus warning of the misogynistic manipulation of women by the music industry #Womensart

Two more events coming up for #Wales #FiLiAWomensAssembly in Wales: come along to this event to hear more and to share your views on what women need from the Assembly in #Cardiff and Wales. 🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am 📍 Central Cardiff 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales #FWAWales

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt

Georgia O'Keeffe. Evening Star, No. III. 1917 #WomensArt

'The night the sky showered us with stars" by Sarah Morgan, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

We are horrified by reports of yet another racially motivated rape. We stand in solidarity with the woman attacked in Walsall. Black and minoritised women are disproportionately targeted with male violence and systematically failed when they report this abuse. We demand justice!

Croydon sisters stepping up to help Jamaica hurricane victims insidecroydon.com/2025/10/30/c... #Croydon #Hurricane #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica @itvnews.bsky.social @rosslydall.bsky.social

”The homeward road was very long, I haven’t met a soul Now the evenings grow gloomier and colder Come comfort me a little, for the journey takes its toll And I’m suddenly so alone" Tove Jansson's lyrics for 'The #Autumn Song' 🍂🧡🍂 (Via Moomins FB).

“I hope you always find a reason to smile." ❤ - Maya Angelou #WomensArt

A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt

Here’s an amazing opportunity to own a set of #InsideNo9 script books signed by over 80 guest stars from our West End run of Stage/Fright. Ian McKellen, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Lenny Henry, S Pegg, E Paige, J Ross all for @DerianHouse ❤️https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/insideno9stage

Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter, Heart of innocence, 2021 #WomensArt

Ælfgyva, one of only three females figures portrayed in The Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval masterpiece created by women artisan embroiderers in the 11th century #womensart

Did they think that hanging up flags, spray-painting and smashing the venue windows would stop us? #FiLiA2025 in #Brighton has started! See you there. Sisterhood and Solidarity!

US photographer Dorothea Lange documented female shipyard workers- Kaiser shipyard, California, WW2, 1943 #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Beckenham town centre closed off after massive rooftop fire insidecroydon.com/2025/09/30/b... #Beckenham #Bromley @london-fire.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social

Young Syrian refugees paint murals at Zataari camp Jordan, to overcome trauma and memories of violence #womensart

Faith Humphrey Hill, US artist and knitter who combines knitting, embroidery and paint to create portraits #WomensArt

Today on #NationalDayOfRemembrance we are remembering victims of fatal domestic abuse, including those who die by suicide.

As part of the 10th celebrations, we share news of a book by @rahilag.bsky.social, British Feminism: Through A FiLiA Lens, a herstory of the #Feminist voices & activism of the last decade of #FiLiA Pre-order for collection at #FiLiA2025 or delivery 🔗 shop.filia.org.uk/products/bri...

Indigenous women in Bolivia create complexly detailed textiles using traditional methods, integral to their culture #WomensArt

As happened to the artworks of many historic female artists, this work by French painter Marie-Denise Villers -Young Woman Drawing, 1801 - was wrongly attributed to a male artist before being truely recognised.....

'A disaster': Gatwick expansion is real threat to environment insidecroydon.com/2025/09/23/a... #Croydon #Gatwick #Environment @zackpolanski.bsky.social @abcommuters.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social

The work of Melissa Cody, 4th generation, contemporary Navajo weaver #WomensArt

It's been a really tough year for my little business. By far the lowest takings since I started it back in 2019. I've had so many loyal customers over the years, if you're one of them, THANK YOU! ❤️ Will soldier on and hope things pick up soon. 🤞🐦😊 www.carlbovis.com/shop-3

The Refugees, 1931 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka #womensart

"Do you remember the 21st night of September?"

NEED A GIFT ?!! 🎁 The Womensart books are here and at a GREAT price! Via any online or local bookstore in your area....

Self Portrait at the Dressing Table,1909 by Zinaida Serebriakova #WomensArt

2:15pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4 DramaOn4 📻 “HIGH COCKALORUM” directed by Nadia Molinari written by Jeremy Dyson 🌟 Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Monica Dolan, Goldie Crane

Self-portrait with Daughter (1789) by French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun #WomensArt

Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, 1979, used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #womensart

Sungi Mlengeya, Tanzanin painter, among a host of fascinating contemporary painters interviewed for. 'Unlocking Women's Art', the 2nd womensart1 book!

#Autumn Sunlight, Sennen Cove, Cornwall, 1922 by Laura Knight #UnlockingWomensArt

Early US suffragists were inspired by the equality they saw in the indigenous Haudenosaunee matrilineal society. In contrast to European women of the era, Haudenosaunee women owned property in addition to holding leadership positions in their communities #WomensArt

As part of our 10th celebrations, we are so proud to share news of a book by @rahilag.bsky.social, British Feminism: Through A FiLiA Lens, a retelling of the #Feminist voices & activism, organising & mobilising of the last decade of #FiLiA Pre-order here: 🔗 shop.filia.org.uk/products/bri...

' #Sudan is facing not just a military crisis, it’s an economic war and Women are at its centre,' said Sudanese researcher Mariam Moussa of Shared Planet. www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

East Timor's forgotten Women of war, 50 years on in their fight for justice #EastTimor #MVAWG www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Bula Larsen will speak of her experience at #FiLiA2025 with @matriactivista.bsky.social, after more than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities #Greenland apnews.com/article/denm...

'Women from Black ethnic backgrounds were still more than twice as likely to die compared to White women. There has also been little improvement in disparities between women living in the most deprived and least deprived areas'. www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/r...

Night and Sleep, 1878 by English painter Evelyn De Morgan, one of a Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood that is often forgotten #WomensArt

'Within the last hour, a single user had sent me 32 tweets. These included doctored images depicting me on fire, hanging dead from a noose, with a gun pointed at my head...' #Solidarity with Collective Shout and hear Caitlin Roper speak at #FiLiA2025 www.lbc.co.uk/article/wome...