Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be based on one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart ##WomensHistoryMonth

The names of 19 women believed to have been killed by their sons since #IWD25 were read out by @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social y/day. @femicidecensus.bsky.social research showed almost one in 5 women killed by men since #IWD25 were suspected victims of matricide. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

🌠💫Help us remember them by making indivdual stars for each woman or girl killed in 2025 🌠💫 Read more ➡️ filia.org.uk/stars-for-murdered-women #StarsForMurderedWomen www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Today in the #IWD parliamentary debate @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social will read the names of women killed since IWD2025 where the suspect is male. 🌠💫We are making stars for each woman or girl killed in 2025, please join us. Read more ➡️ filia.org.uk/stars-for-murdered-women #StarsForMurderedWomen

📢Join @culturereframed.bsky.social's free, live webinar, Let’s Talk Porn: Young Women Speak Out Against Porn Culture on 19th March from 12 p.m. EST (5 p.m. GMT). Hear from two young women activists, Ashley Staggers and Katie Ramsay. Sign up to join: bit.ly/CR-youth #PornHarms #YouthVoices

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

Ahead of #InternationalWorkersMemorialDay, the FiLiA Trade Union Women's Network are holding a panel #webinar on how Women can make workplaces healthy & safe: Health & Safety is a Women’s Issue! 🗓️ Thursday 26th March 7PM 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAIWMD #WomensHistoryMonth

🎵 Performances 🌏 Speakers from 75+ Countries 🎨 Feminist Artists 🛍️ Stalls 💃 Women-Only Party 🚼 FREE crèche (limited spaces) 🎉 Over 200 TICKETS ALREADY SOLD! 🏖️ #Blackpool #FiLiA2027 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets ⏰ #EarlyBird ENDS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #IWD

♀️ This International Women's Day, we're celebrating the amazing women in Team Scary! Our Mayven events have been showcasing the work of over 100 female creatives. Meet all of them here 👉 buff.ly/G1ZPP0c #IWD2026

Former #FiLiA speaker Marie-Claire Faray in The Morning Star for #InternationalWomensDay2026 on why we need the meaningful participation of Women, rather than token inclusion of women in peace negotiations to end wars #IWD2026 #WomensDay morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sile...

"I want to be THE painter of my country" - Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) Brazilan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people" - Shamsia Hassani Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do." -Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) Italian artist #InternationalWomensDay

On #InternationalWomensDay, we stand in #solidarity with #BettyLachgar We call on King Mohammed VI to #FreeBetty with a royal pardon. Today, join rallies at Moroccan embassies around the world to demand Betty’s release. FreeBetty.org #IWD2026 #WomensDay2026

Icelandic photographer Sigga Ella, series of portraits of people with Down's Syndrome, 'First and foremost I am' featuring 21 images, a number she chose as people with Down's Syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21 #WomensArt

Happy FOURTH birthday to #OurFeministLibrary, which arose out of a joint (then) Twitter action with @womansplaceuk.bsky.social, after the #FeministLibrary ‘Statement on Transphobia’ 🥳🎉♀️ #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth2026 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

So Reform publicly condones violence now. Even after Farage was so angry at Jo Brand's 'throw acid not milkshake' joke. Is it okay for Reform because it's threatening violence against a Labour MP or is it because it's aimed at a woman? Both probably. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🧵The Government is currently proposing to bring in a new immigration model for settlement – the ‘earned settlement’ scheme... if enacted, it will have a terrifying impact on the poorest & most vulnerable migrants, particularly Women. www.gov.uk/government/c...

🧵 Following our response (co-produced with LISG and Women in the FiLiA Women's Assembly) to the Govt's consultation on the 'Earned Settlement’ policy, @projectresist.bsky.social and #FiLiA have released a joint statement calling on the Gov't to reconsider the policy in its entirety.

Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Electric prisms, 1914 vía #womensart

Pearl Johnson (1926) by Laura Knight, the English painter, who was visiting the US, was later taken to a civil rights meeting by the subject of this work, a Baltimore nurse #womensart

“Sudanese women and girls’ bodies have become war zones and crime scenes.” Our Executive Director @selmataha8.bsky.social spoke to @melissasigodo.bsky.social about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Read the full article 👇🏾 1/2 melissasigodothesource.substack.com/p/sudan-is-t...

Self Portrait by Berlin based Iranian artist Mona Hakimi-Schueler who explores the contradictions, strengths & limitations of Iranian female identity #WomensArt

Remembering Patricia Routledge, born this day in 1929.

Please share with anyone who’s grieving or supporting a griever. I’ve started a free project to create a guidebook to the shitty island of complicated grief. It’s called When the Worst Happens, & I’m making free articles & vids about aspects of grief that are rarely discussed.

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Self Portrait 1943, artist born in Lebanon, pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East #WomensArt

Nicknamed the "Indian Frida Kahlo' by some, lndian-Hungarian painter Amrita Sher-Gil had her own identity with self-portraits stradding aspects of her heritage while presenting herself as a confident, complex modern woman with an outward direct gaze #WomensArt

Self Portrait with a Cat, 1928 by Lotte Laserstein, German-Swedish painter #WomensArt

Vintage embroidery, applique wall hanging from Gujarat, India #WomensArt

Zinaida Serebriakova's 'Self-Portrait at the Dressing-Table', 1909, reflects a candid depiction of daily life, highlighting a modern, confident, autonomous young woman #WomensArt

The Network Against Non-State Torture (NNST), a global Women’s revolution dedicated to naming, exposing and dismantling Non-State Torture crimes against Women and Girls, held their launch #webinar yesterday. Watch a recording here ⬇️ 📺 youtu.be/A5oth51iyuM #nonstatetorture

Deepfake abuse is a clear violation of women’s rights and has a long-lasting, traumatic impact on victims. Today it becomes a criminal offence. But the law must go further to prevent this harm from happening. #StopImageBasedAbuse

FiLiA blog: FGM: Everything about you is violated by this. Today is Int'l Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. ‘I always saw Women as one… We should fight abuse as one’. 🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/2024/2/2/fgm #NoFGM #EndFGM #Invest2EndFGM

The Blue Mountain, 1908 by Gabriele Münter, Expressionist painter #WomensArt

Self-Portrait, 1878 by Mary Cassatt, US Impressionist painter #womensart

‘The naming of non-State torture is crucial for Women's healing’ 🎙️ podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/epis... To mark the creation of a Network Against Non-State Torture, its launch next week & conference in November, this podcast episode explores the human rights violation of non-State Torture.

The FiLiA Trade Union Women's Network met today to strategise for 2026. This was followed by a fascinating evening spent with sisters at the Marx Memorial Library, with a tour of their incredible building and an archive workshop on Annie Mills. Thanks to the Marx Memorial Library for hosting us!

Sculpture created in 2016 by artist Karen Newman in honour of Noor Inayat Khan, British-Indian WW2 agent who aided French Resistance and was shot in Dachau #womensart

Imigongo, Rwandan art form traditionally made by women, with red, black and white geometric designs painted on walls, pottery, tiles and canvas #WomensArt .

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #WomensArt

UN rapporteur relays harrowing accounts from displacement camps in #Sudan www.turkiyetoday.com/region/un-ra...

#NewYear means new FiLiA Women's Assembly events – towards the end of January, our online Women-only group for Women across #Wales – ‘Make Them Listen!’ 🗓️ Thursday 29th January 🕖 7-8.30PM 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-ZoomWales #FWAZoomWales

Indigenous Australian artist Judy Watson Napangardi, Snake Vine (Ngalyipi) Dreaming, 2001 #WomensArt

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), a highly prolific Italian painter, and respected teacher who founded the first art academy for women outside of a convent. Another pioneering female artist not celebrated enough in Euopean art history #WomensArt

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

Women's work in embroidery globally can act as a powerful form of preserving culture, heritage and identity. Examples include Hausa (Northern Nigeria) left, Palestinian tatreez (top right), Kantha (Bangladesh, West Bengal) and Ukrainian Vyshyvanka #Womensart

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