Be an active feminist… share, amplify & act in support of feminist campaigns… ACTION: Suicide is Homicide Support, follow and amplify Project Resist’s Suicide is Homicide Campaign. Visit our page for more actions brightonsisters.wordpress.com/femicide/ #16Days #femicide

Rising rents, the gender pay gap & freezes & cuts to benefits have left women particularly vulnerable. WBG found that women spend on average 58% of their income on rent. At today's budget the Chancellor must unfreeze Local Housing Allowance to ensure housing support meets the true cost of renting.

Today, bereaved families & campaigners gathered opposite 10 Downing Street to honour women lost to men’s violence at a vigil organised by SBS. We demanded accountability for govt failures & urgent reforms for Black, minoritised, & migrant women. 1/🧵 southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/familie...

Update: The man has been disqualified. Great statement from Strongman.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - #IDEVAW - the first day of the #16Days of Activism. This year's theme is #NoExcuse for online abuse - something we wholeheartedly agree with.

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

„cage-free“

#trumsteinfiles This is not a child somehow deciding that they’re going to go out and trade sex for money, heat, food or anything of value. This is a case of perpetrators, whether they are family members or non-family traffickers, who are preying on the vulnerability of children”

Consent. Women & girls have the first and last say, not only about what goes into their bodies, but what comes out. #AbortionIsHealthcare #TheRacicalNotionThatWomenAreHuman #MyBodyMyChoice Be an active feminist Take action 2 protect women's rights⬇️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/abortion-rep...

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/

Be an #ActiveFeminist Inequality is the cause & consequence of male violence against women & girls. As the International Day to End Violence Against Women & Girls approaches, YOU can make change with our range of #16Days actions: #ActivismWorks Link brightonsisters.wordpress.com/16daysofacti...

This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is

Snowy here

Ladies, this is a must-read article! That you seem to have zero f*cks to give about all the nonsense around you, has a neurological reason. Tell that to next person that calls you the B-word. I love "the great unf*ckery" instead of "menopause" too! www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...

#OnThisDay, 18 Nov 1910, 119 people are arrested whilst protesting for the right for women to vote in the UK. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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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

Gunmen in northwestern Nigeria kidnapped 25 schoolgirls from their dormitory on Monday after shooting dead a teacher, police have said.

Most countries have some form of universal health care. I agree that those that don’t should not be considered civilized.

I also have a very soft spot for Whitby. I've just started to read Nicola's novel Hild, and can highly recommend Ammonite.

'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday

In short: * The government department responsible for the courts * headed by the Lord Chancellor, David Lammy, who has a legal responsibility to uphold the rule of law appears openly to be flouting the law and dismissing what the Prime Minister told parliament Extraordinary

Dame Jenni Murray: "I left Womans Hour after 33 years due to the trans issue. I rejected the word ‘cis’, said I wanted single-sex spaces and received threats of violence in return. The BBC response was ‘never talk about this issue again’ " Another victim both of the BBC and of the rampant contagion.

‪A huge thank you to Sarah for her bravery & advocacy for Brighton survivors ‪Sisterhood & solidarity with FiLiA for their continued support & platform ‪You can read our #FiliA25 speech here:‬ ‪ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/sisters-salo... ‪@FiLiA_charity ‬

To be clear. I am capable of agreeing with you on one issue & disagreeing on another issue. I expect that other people will be like this too. I am an animal rights supporting, pacifist, radical feminist. I believe in grass roots activism & decision making, I'm skeptical of representative democracy.

My comment in @theguardian.com on why the new law requiring porn and social media platforms to remove choking/strangulation content is very welcome.

In a shocking development, Cycling UK's 100 Women in Cycling is open only to women, as defined by the not-so-recent Supreme Court decision. The comments under the Cycling Weekly article are strongly supportive of Cycling UK's decision.

Stoneware with sgraffito by Indigenous Australian artist Alison Milyika Carroll who is also a community leader on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia #womensart

Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart (Image S.Bugarsky)

Male entitlement writ large. Male violence is definitely the way to persuade us all that these men should have access to women's services, provisions & sports.

Cypress Garden's water skiing troupe, 1955, Florida, US #WomensArt #Halloween #FridayFeeling !

Samhsin Eve by Damh the Bard youtu.be/O-vzf-8Llu8?...

Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.

'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..." - Leonora Carrington Surrealist painter #WomensArt

1/2] FAMILY COURT UPDATE: High Court overturns ruling implying domestic violence would not affect children Read more 🔗 www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...

Yesterday. A sunny afternoon wander in Laugharne.

Fungus growing on a recently fallen ash tree. Another causally of Ash Die Back disease.

“In case after case, there is systemic and structural failure, especially within the criminal justice system, to scrutinise these deaths with the seriousness that they deserve,” Pragna Patel Co-director of Project Resist www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Night Bird, 2020 Relief printing combined with charcoal, acrylic, gold leaf and hand stitching by US printmaker and mixed media artist Delita Martin #WomensArt

Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!

Heart breaking

Outside of the women’s sector I haven’t seen much coverage of Labour’s momentous decision to end presumption of parental contact- a huge step forward for child protection and victims’ rights/

"10 babies per day are born in this country as a result of rape Up until now, men can demand access to those children, retraumatising the mothers & endangering the children The gov has listened & is stopping that." Natalie Fleet MP Another significant step to protecting women and children by Labour

important work, & this is truly awful

'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt

Announced today: Children exposed to the family courts will be protected from harm under plans by the Government to repeal the presumption of parental involvement We echo @womensaid in welcoming to this decision to remove the 'archaic' presumption of contact in family court cases which...