As part of #16DaysOfActivism, SBS and CWASU are hosting @rahilag.bsky.social and Bea Campbell to discuss their latest book Planet Patriarchy, in conversation with Professor Liz Kelly. 📍 @londonmetuni.bsky.social 📅 3 December | 🕓 4:30 PM Don’t miss out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bea-campbe...

Fab review of my book on FiLiA's history. Kay Green can see my admiration for FiLiA & that my invocation of Palestine was not intended to derail it but make it more inclusive . As she says, 'Rahila didn’t throw a dead cat, she threw a live elephant.' kaygreen.blog/2025/10/30/v...

The SBS statement on FILIA, Zionism and Palestine is now open to signatures. southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/sbs-sta...

For those who have followed the fallout from the Filia conference: southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/sbs-sta...

For the record this is what I said @filiacharity.bsky.social 2025 conference. I'm being misrepresented by people intent on forwarding their own distorted agendas @maryamaldossari.bsky.social @maryamnamazie.bsky.social

All those who live within reach of Leicester, please come to this event.

Really great review by Jayne Egerton

Also my blood, sweat and tears 🙂

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...

The #FiLiA #newsletter is out! 🔗 bit.ly/FiLiANewsletter12092025 #FiLiA2025 speakers & sessions @glosswitch.bsky.social @rachelhewitt.bsky.social @laurafreixas.bsky.social @jophoenix1.bsky.social, FiLiA book by @rahilag.bsky.social, TUWN update @kiritunks.bsky.social @ph-severn.bsky.social & more!

Against Extractivism of Women & the Natural World; and Looking Forward, this book is a moment in time, captured. ‘With detailed testimony and wise commentary, @rahilag.bsky.social captures the blood, sweat, & tears of 10 years of British feminism, 2013-2023.’ ~ Melissa Farley

I am proud too to have got to know the inner workings of @filiacharity.bsky.social and the work they put in all year to organise the conference, produce weekly newsletter, support various campaigns, submissions to govt, lobbying local govt to bring about change for women

Our friend Rohan was arrested today for standing against genocide in Palestine.

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 PLANET PATRIARCHY: Why does Patriarchy persist, across diverse countries & cultures? @rahilag.bsky.social & @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social explore themes of their book, Planet Patriarchy: Global Tales of Feminism & Oppression, with Jayne Egerton. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

Long live people power.! Hope this kind of action spreads . Loss of business is the only thing that will change policy, not loss of lives. novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/i...

Sad, though predictable, what Starmer's Labour party is influenced by. Labour announces rapid asylum hotel closures but remains impervious to calls to deproscribe Palestine Action.

My article on the difficulties of writing about patriarchy for my joint book. Planet Patriarchy, with ‪@campbellbeatrix.bsky.social‬ in authoritarian countries where the lives and careers of activists are at risk: royalliteraryfund.substack.com/p/f9b7ad4d-5...?

Patriarchy refuses to die. But women are resisting, as @rahilag.bsky.social explains, in a fascinating conversation that takes us from Riyadh and Russia to Rojava. Listen to the full episode of In Solidarity here or wherever you get your podcasts www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/...

📅 The next hearing in the retrial of Manahel al-Otaibi — a fitness instructor sentenced by #Saudi authorities to 11 years for her peaceful activism — has been postponed to Tuesday 22 July, at the SCC in Riyadh. ALQST encourages diplomats to request access to the trial.

I wrote this for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social ‬⁩: Nothing unnerves Britain’s loudest self-styled ‘feminist’ commentators more than the Palestinian flag — not as a cry for justice, but as an affront to their moral high ground. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/when...

Unboxing our book, Planet Patriarchy, the latest marketing wheeze recommended by the publishers. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social

‘... Campbell and Gupta ...tell shocking stories of violence against women, [but] they also celebrate the awesome wit, courage and creativity of feminist resistance. What an essential, intelligent and ultimately uplifting book!’ — Anne Karpf @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

We stand against the authoritarian turn of a Labour govt and publish a statement of solidarity with all those whose rights have been affected.

Great comprehensive thread on last night’s 📚📖launch event for Planet Patriarchy 🌎

It was, thanks for letting us help you with it!

It was a great evening!

Endorsement no 6: ‘Wherever one stands in the debate over the meaning of patriarchy, this is a valuable investigation of the place in which women find themselves across the globe, and of their resistance to oppression.’ @kenanmalik.bsky.social‬

Really pleased at the size of the #Labourrebellion reversing cuts to disability benefits. Why can't they do the same for #Palestine?

Endorsement no 5: ‘A vital, passionate and superbly written global dispatch from two of the most respected stateswomen of feminist activism.’ — Samira Ahmed @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

Two brilliant feminist writers survey the world and the inequality that is still meted out to women everywhere... A powerful condemnation but also a call to arms!’ — Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC @hurstpublishers.bsky.social ‪@helenkennedy.bsky.social‬

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Wow!

Endorsement no 3 ‘My two favourite women to think with have been thinking with each other about why patriarchy does not die, and more importantly, how it adapts and shapeshifts in different contexts. This book helps us imagine how to dismantle the systems that deny women freedom.’ — Liz Kelly

Julie Spin-del strikes again to teach us all that we should never let facts stand in the way of a good story. She sets up a strawman #TeamIran consisting of one transwoman & 9 followers to argue that the Left is supporting Iranian regime cos' it opposes the bombing. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3553677...

Endorsement no 2: ‘Inspiring and challenging. There’s an idea on every page and outrage in every chapter. Ambitious in its scope, looking at women’s struggle for equality in seven countries, it still manages to tell individual stories of heroism...— Philippa Gregory @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

This event is sold out. We've had great endorsements though. ‘Urgent, incisive and hugely readable. The authors—two of our most brilliant advocates for women’s rights—make visible the often hidden ways in which patriarchy remains so resilient.’ Monica Ali

It's #FiLiA #newsletter time! 🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/aborti... #Abortion vote, #FiLiA2025 speakers @rahilag.bsky.social, Milli Hill, Vandana Aparanti & @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social, @mstaronline.bsky.social & @orgreavejustice.bsky.social reports, letters to @ofcom.bsky.social & @theguardian.com & more

We are looking forward to hearing @rahilag.bsky.social at #FiLiA2025, to discuss Planet Patriarchy, about the ferocious modernisation of #patriarchy and #feminist resistance, in the 21st century. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Feminist #PlanetPatriarchy

@rahilag.bsky.social has written several times about #Kurdish Women’s struggle in #Rojava for the FiLiA #blog, most recently for #IWD2024 in KURDISH WOMEN LEAD THE REVOLUTION. 🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/2024/3/8/kurdish-women-lead-the-revolution #RiseUp4Rojava #rojavarevolution #WomensRevolution

Watch @rahilag.bsky.social on #FiLiA2022 panel Migration and Motherhood: 📺 youtu.be/p0eF4wagoTg And #FiLiA2023 panel, Lost Voices, about the dismantling of the feminist-led #MVAWG movement & the silencing of the Women they support: 📺 youtu.be/e5iqpg4_JuY #Cardiff #Glasgow

A regular contributor to #FiLiA, you can listen to @rahilag.bsky.social discuss her work on the FiLiA podcast: 🎙️ podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/episodes/10557477-78-filia-meets-rahila-gupta #podcasting #Podcast

A published author, @rahilag.bsky.social's new book, co-authored with @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social, Planet Patriarchy: Global Tales of Feminism and Oppression, is out next month. We are supporting their SOLD OUT book launch on 3rd July. 🔗 uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/9781805262879 #OurFeministLibrary

It's Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker time! RAHILA GUPTA @rahilag.bsky.social, freelance journalist, author and activist, and Chair of @sbsisters.bsky.social, who brings an internationalist lens to feminist analysis, will be speaking at #FiLiA. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Feminist #PlanetPatriarchy

Land of neutrality & large Israeli population shuts down train stations & rises in protest against genocide in Gaza www.threads.com/@muhammad_ib...

The public spat between right-wing men, Farage and Yusuf is typically over the bodies of women. Which woman wd want to be liberated by Farage & which woman wd want to be oppressed by Yusuf? Hobsons choice!

Women’s rights are not a moral imperative — they’re a marketing strategy. Enough. Women are not props for diplomacy or branding tools for Vision 2030. They are not to be used, covered, and uncovered on command. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/used...

Because it's not officially the stupidest timeline until we've heard from both Steve Bannon and Ro Khanna

Like last year, we will be attending the #OrgreaveRally2O25 next weekend. Look out for our banner! #OrgreaveJustice #OrgreaveInquiry #OrgreaveInquiryNow #MinersStrike

When the Guardian describes Elon Musk's Nazi salute as erratic behaviour. What's with all the euphemisms? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...