"FiLiA volunteers were truly extraordinary – they always are but they were really tested this year and were all champions, every one of them." Become a Friend of FiLiA filia.org.uk/friends-of-filia #Sisterhood #Solidarity #FiLiA2026

Update on 14th October 2025: FiLiA wish to confirm that one of our speakers, Lucy Masoud, is not one of the Women referred to below. Lucy was not removed from the party or the conference.

Statement from the FiLiA Trustees on the FiLiA Party Attendees may be aware of the unacceptable behaviour of two individuals at the FiLiA party. Please be assured that these individuals were removed as swiftly as possible & were not permitted to attend the conference on Sunday. 1/3

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!

#FiLiA2025 has arrived in #Brighton ♀️ Building Sisterhood and Solidarity ♀️ Amplifying the Voices of Women ♀️ Defending Women's Human Rights 🎟️ filia.org.uk #Sisterhood #Solidarity

More #FiLiAFlag pictures, now with our amazing security lead @saltnpepa.bsky.social & Cristina, Rehana, Pauline & Rachel! 🎉 Share a pic with us of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the hashtag #FiLiAFlag ♀️ 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

More #FiLiAFlag pictures being shared, this one is from two of our trustees, Sally & Ragani! ♀️♀️ Share a pic with us of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the hashtag #FiLiAFlag in it – one sleep to go! 🎉 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 TAKE THE MIC: AMPLIFYING YOUNG WOMEN'S VOICES with nia Join us for the pre-launch of nia’s first podcast, created to amplify the voices of young women and girls. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Podcasting #YoungWomen #GirlsMatter

Our first #FiLiAFlag picture comes from one of our volunteers! ♀️♀️ Share a pic of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the #FiLiAFlag in it – let's get excited! 💃💃 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •CHALLENGING TOXIC TOWNS• Meet the Women behind the Netflix series Toxic Town, chaired by Paula Boulton, as they explore how toxic industries specifically affect Women. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Corby #ToxicTown #NetflixToxicTown

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •AM I NOT YOUR GIRL? ART MAKING FOR YOUNG WOMEN• We will create a collective piece of textile art that commemorates young women’s lives today, what was & what might be. For young women & girls. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Artivism #FeministArt

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥 •SPEAK NOW: YOUNG WOMEN'S SPEAKOUT• Inspired by the speak outs at #Brighton96, Women aged 18-30 & Girls under 18, are invited to stand up, speak out & share with an audience of their peers & elders. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #SpeakOut

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 •A SEAT AT THE TABLE: GETTING A VOICE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT• This FiLiA Women's Assembly workshop will be led by @elniedunne.bsky.social, with hopefully lots of interruptions, ideas & suggestions from all present. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #LocalGovernment

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 EqIAs – a tool for change! A FiLiA Women's Assembly & @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social workshop to show you how to connect the Public Sector #Equality Duty to real-world decisions, uncover gaps & challenge inequality. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Equality

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 MISSION & MISOGYNY: This session will reveal how the privileging of faith groups in the charity sector is enabling charities to promote/condone female subordination, sexist 'modesty codes' & even marital rape @natsecsoc.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

Oh yes – the #Feminists are in town – look at our beautiful #FiLiAFlag ♀️♀️♀️ Share a picture of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with a #FiLiAFlag in it – let's get excited! 💃 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

Update: Betty's Lachgar's sentence was upheld after her appeal! H/T @matriactivista.bsky.social Visit our page, which will be updated with actions, & also links to @maryamnamazie.bsky.social's campaign. We will show our #solidarity with Betty at #FiLiA2025 #FreeBetty www.filia.org.uk/freebetty

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS, a film about the lives of Women whose male partners have ‘transitioned’ or want to do so, followed by a talk b/w director Vaishnavi Sundar and two of the Women in the film. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BTLG #BehindTheLookingGlass

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 The Women's Platform for Action International panel will address how systems of patriarchal powers converge to undermine Women’s human dignity & freedoms & the importance of global #Feminist organising in fighting this backlash. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomensRights

As Gisèle Pelicot returns to court face one of the men who raped her, French women are speaking out about the lack of change. @alyssaahrabare.bsky.social, a speaker at #FiLiA2025, is quoted in this piece. #ShameMustChangeSides #GisèlePelicot 🔗⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 THE STATE AS PERPETRATOR OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Across the world, to varying degrees, the state either repeatedly fails Women or actively persecutes & dehumanises us. With a contribution from @unsrvaw.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomensRights

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 During this workshop, you will meet the FiLiA Women First team, hear about our work & why prostitution is MVAWG & share ways to ask Women about their involvement in the sex trade. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #InternationalDayofNoProstitution #IDNP #AbolitionNow

Today on #InternationalDayofNoProstitution, as part of the #FiLiA Women First project, we have FIVE recommendations for change and we are engaging with local and national government to help make them a reality. Real Solutions to Prostitution #IDNP Read more here: filia.org.uk/women-first

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥 BODY COUNT: after an amazing run at @edfringe.bsky.social, Gabrielle is mesmerising in this darkly funny one-Woman show imagining what the world would be like if there was real justice for Women. Not to be missed! 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BodyCount

New in the #FiLiA shop: the Sudie Rakusin Collection – iconic Lesbian feminist art, celebrating Women’s resistance, visibility & power. T-shirts, hoodies, totes, prints & more: 🔗 shop.filia.org.uk/collections/sudie-rakusin #FeministArt #Sisterhood #WomenWillChangeTheWorld #BlackHistoryMonth

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 #Brighton Multicultural Women’s Cycle Club delivers fun, fresh air & freedom, skills, speed & #sisterhood – try a bike at #FiLiA – we’ll get you pedalling too! 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #WomensCycling

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 SECOND SPRING: A self-help workshop for peri & menopausal Women, facilitated by Soreh Levy, an acupuncturist with 25 years experience in treating Women’s health issues & qualified workshop facilitator. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomensHealth

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •FEMINISM AND MILITARISM: FEMINIST ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM• What does feminist peacebuilding look like, here at #FiLiA2025? 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Peace #AntiWar #Feminist #Sisterhood

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥 ZAGROS PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE – co-founded by renowned award-winning percussionist Sara Fotros in October 2023, they create & perform rhythmic compositions inspired by #Kurdish, #Persian & fusion music. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #musictwt

♀️ #FiLiA2025 speaker news ♀️ MARIA NOBLE, Black #Lesbian feminist activist, community organiser & advocacy & founding member of Abasindi Women’s Co-op. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #LesbianVisibility #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 Join a:dress in an exciting workshop using film, a SUBVERSIVE CATWALK & a conversation to explore the consequences for Women globally of the overconsumption & overproduction of clothing. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #FastFashion

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 MENOPAUSE CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING offers a supportive space for Women to share personal experiences of #menopause, explore its impacts, and challenge the silence and stigma that often surround it. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomensHealth

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 SURROGACY: A NEW CHAPTER IN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. Hear the voices of those on the front line @seahorseplanet.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #StopSurrogacyNow

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 •FIND YOUR FUNNY!• Claire Berry, founder of Fem de la Femme Women’s Comedy events, presents a creative comedy workshop: laugh in the face of adversity, explore your comedic voice, develop confidence & be silly... 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING FOR BLACK & MINORITY ETHNIC WOMEN – sharing experiences & reflecting on how these shape & inform our Black consciousness & politics; with Esua Goldsmith. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Read all about our wonderful security team @saltnpepa.bsky.social & Di of Labrys Security – one of the first all-female security firms in the UK – the team that makes all Women at #FiLiA feel safe & reassured; see them at work at #FiLiA2025 🦺 🔗 www.ibtimes.co.uk/club-door-dr...

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 THE REPRESENTATION OF MOTHERS IN CULTURE: A new generation of Women writers, filmmakers, philosophers, artists has taken to exploring #motherhood as a fully human experience – with @laurafreixas.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomensHistory

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 •WOMEN! GET ORGANISED• A workshop for Women who want to utilise their skills, strengths and resources to support the Women’s movement through pro bono work. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomenSupportingWomen #Sisterhood

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 BEYOND A BACKLASH unites #feminist voices from the US, Hungary, China, Australia & UK, to examine the resurgence of #misogyny in both culture & politics @sonia-sodha.bsky.social @maxdashu.bsky.social @seahorseplanet.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

We are getting closer.... 🥳 So, watch the #FiLiA2023 opening & get excited that ONE week from now, we will be at the #FiLiA2025 opening together! Wait until you see what we have planned for you all!💃 It's going to be memorable! ♀️ #Goosebumps 🔗⬇️ youtu.be/XVicPbXPtg0

The last couple of weeks before conference are intense. Balancing 1,000 things. Visas being knocked back is one of the obstacles. Women worried that they will be prevented from travelling. Still we persist! #GlobalSisterhood 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood and #Solidarity

The venue for #FiLiA2023 #Glasgow cancelled at the last minute. We spent 2 days in a lawyer's office & won! We are pleased & reassured that #Brighton & Hove CC have been in touch & confirmed they are not considering cancelling. See you @ #FiLiA2025 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING for LESBIANS• A space for lesbians to share experiences, build solidarity and deepen understanding through collective reflection; with @proflizkelly.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #ConsciousnessRaising #LesbianVisibility

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •KATH LOCKE – WE ARE BORN TO SURVIVE• Maria Noble on the life of Kath Locke, community leader, Black feminist activist & co-founder of the Abasindi Co-operative #Manchester 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #BlackHistoryMonth

Looking forward to running this session with @filiacharity.bsky.social Women's Assembly at #FiLiA2025 Women into Power! #LetsGo #MakeLikeAMushroom🍄‍🟫

In ONE WEEK from TODAY, our volunteers, stallholders, artists, exhibitors, crew, will all be busy setting up #FiLiA2025 #Brighton for you all! 👷‍♀️🦺🎨🛍️ We are very very excited & cannot wait to welcome you to day one on Friday! ♀️ 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets Pic © @makoveitchoux.bsky.social #FiLiA2023

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 •WOMEN INTO POWER• Join this #FiLiAWomensAssembly workshop focused on how to organise collectively & develop campaigns that drive real change for Women & our communities; with @kiritunks.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomenSupportingWomen

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 DAILY UNSPOKEN CONFLICT: A PATH TO WOMEN’S LIBERATION will explore the often-overlooked, everyday battles women face at the intersections of sex, culture, religion & generational change 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥 FEMINISM & SOCIAL WORK – ARE THEY COMPATIBLE aims to encourage a discussion to bridge gaps in feminist discourse within social work, providing a space for critical reflection and dialogue. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #SocialWork #EduTwit