Feminist Dissent

Searing new blog post by Yasmin Rehman:
"There is of course nothing new in what Farage and Yusuf announced. It is a direct lift from the National Front leaflets of the 1970s with an added sprinkle..."
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08.09.2025 23:06 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🧵Ahead of @tuc.org.uk, which starts in #Brighton today, check out the #FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network briefing on how Women’s TUC and Conference structures function and feed into making TUC policy.

🔗 filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-TUWN-WTUC-2025-6-Briefing.pdf

#UnionsForWomen
#TUC2025
#TUC25

07.09.2025 09:17 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

More than 425 arrested at rally against Palestine Action ban in London Hundreds gathered in Parliament Square to oppose the group's ban under anti-terrorism legislation.

While Lucy Connolly was being feted at the Reform conference, hundreds were being arrested for their speech opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. Yet those turning Connolly into a free speech martyr seem to have little to say about those arrests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.09.2025 09:34 — 👍 83    🔁 45    💬 6    📌 1

Rosie Lewis is another FD collective member speaking at FiLia about the new report from the Angelou Centre and Project Resist UK on the impact of last year's far right riots on minoritised women and children. #WhyDoIHaveToHideAway #StoriesofColour

07.09.2025 19:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Human Rights in an Age of Populist Authoritarianism This issue is devoted to the way authoritarian political parties and organisations have both attacked but also sought to appropriate human rights discourse.

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07.09.2025 19:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us for online launch of Feminist Dissent 8, with Gita Saghal, Judith Götz and Chetan Bhatt. 30 September 5pm UK time. Free but register below for the link. Link to the issue in reply.

07.09.2025 19:24 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Proud that FD collective member Gita Sahgal is joining the roster of speakers and grassroots activists at FiLia.
Looking forward to this!

07.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In case you haven't come across us before, here's a short video intro to Feminist Dissent.
Our new issue – Human Rights in an Age of Populist Authoritarianism – is free to download at: journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6W...

18.07.2025 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Correction & apologies for typo: Rashmi Varma not Varna

14.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There are essays from Yakin Ertük, Judith Götz, Phil Mullen and Gita Sahgal, with Voices of Dissent by Aimee Georgeson, Gurpreet Kaur and Siyâvash Shahabi. Interview with Chetan Bhatt and book reviews by Pragna Patel and Yasmin Rehman. Free to download at journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

14.07.2025 18:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

New issue 8 is out now!
With authoritarianism, racist nationalism and misogyny rising, how do we respond? Edited by Stephen Cowden, Jane Gabriel, Gita Sahgal, Amrita Shodhan & Rashmi Varna, with bold and evocative artwork by Palestinian artist Malak Mattar.
Watch this space...

14.07.2025 17:59 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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

04.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

FiLiA will be there in #Sisterhood and #Solidarity

#IWD2025

15.01.2025 17:03 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs | Kenan Malik Girls who have suffered terrible abuse are now being exploited by populists for their own ends

Sick of right wing populists, lefty neoliberals, ageing anarchists, ideologically-illiterate, ahistorical activists fuelling racism by joining "Asian grooming gangs" rhetoric. If concerned about abuse of women and girls can look to the Catholic church, honours list, Epstein's friend, EDL/BNP ...

12.01.2025 15:26 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Please sign the petition

Iran is one of the world’s top executioners of women:

www.change.org/p/call-to-ac...

#EndGenderApartheid #PakhshanAzizi #VerishehMoradi

12.01.2025 18:49 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0