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Amplifying Women’s Voices on the Harms of Surrogacy
Amplifying Women’s Voices on the Harms of Surrogacy

FiLiA has a lengthy history in highlighting the harms of surrogacy and egg donation on women and children, and also in supporting action and activism to address this violation of women's human rights. The FiLiA Women's Assembly, a growing network of women across the UK, recently arranged a focus group in order to respond to a new consultation on surrogacy. A consultation which signalled that the threat of surrogacy law reform, with a potential relaxation in the laws which govern this exploitative practice, persists. There is, however, a powerful, grassroots movement of women in FiLiA Women's Assembly mobilising resistance.

Blog, StatementsMiz JakubovicSexual Exploitation Industries, Reproductive Rights, Government Policy
Sex and Gender in Trump’s America
Sex and Gender in Trump’s America

We all know how we got here. The failure of the left to address the gender identity activism gave this extraordinary open goal to the right. It was all predictable; we predicted it. Now we’re here.

This does not absolve us from thinking critically about the harmful consequences of working with Christian Right groups, including the ADF and the Heritage Foundation, which are coalition partners in Project 2025.

BlogFiLiAGlobal, Sex-Based Rights, Reproductive Rights, Class Politics, Violence Against Women
Unions and the Labour Party for Women - Kiri Tunks
Unions and the Labour Party for Women - Kiri Tunks

Kiri Tunks is a veteran trade union and women's rights activist @‌kiritunks

This blog is based on a speech made by Kiri Tunks on behalf of the FiLiA Trade Union Project at a Labour Women’s Declaration fringe at the 2024 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. In it, Kiri argues that women need to be at the head and the heart of the labour and trade union movement.

BlogFiLiASexual Exploitation Industries, Violence Against Women, Class Politics, Reproductive Rights
A Thriving Industry of Surrogacy in the Global South Demonstrates its Harms for Women Everywhere
A Thriving Industry of Surrogacy in the Global South Demonstrates its Harms for Women Everywhere

Discussion on the harms of surrogacy in relation to the Global South and the developing world. The piece covers countries like India, Nepal, China and Ukraine and argues that the exploitation of women in surrogacy in this part of the world testifies to the inherently exploitative nature of surrogacy as an industry. Understanding what is happening in the developing world deepens feminist knowledge of the ethical problems with surrogacy.

BlogFiLiAGlobal, Reproductive Rights
FiLiA Interview: Janice Raymond
FiLiA Interview: Janice Raymond

In this piece, FiLiA interviews leading feminist thinker, Janice Raymond, about her work on transgender issues and her new book Doublethink, which illuminates the “doublethink” of a transgender movement that is able to define men as women, women as men, he as she, dissent as heresy, science as sham, and critics as fascists.

BlogFiLiASex-Based Rights, Global, Sexual Exploitation Industries, Violence Against Women, Lesbian Rights, Reproductive Rights
Women’s Wisdom, Women’s Words
Women’s Wisdom, Women’s Words

Author Milli Hill discusses issues around birth, women’s reproductive biology, and the narrative and words around women’s bodies that she has observed in the past decade of talking and writing about pregnancy, birth and most recently, periods.

BlogFiLiAReproductive Rights
From Grassroots to the International: A Focus on Women’s Rights and Activism at Huge Annual Feminist Conference
From Grassroots to the International: A Focus on Women’s Rights and Activism at Huge Annual Feminist Conference

FiLiA steps into the spotlight as a showcase for new thinking in feminism | Portsmouth, 16-17 October

At its seventh annual event, at Portsmouth Guildhall this month the FiLiA conference is hosting the Women who, in 2021, put feminism back at the top of the political agenda.

DiaryFiLiASex-Based Rights, Sexual Exploitation Industries, Representation, Reproductive Rights, About FiLiA, Health, Class Politics, Disability, Anti-racism, Peace, Global, FiLiArts, General Feminism, Secularism, Lesbian Rights, Spirituality, Violence Against Women
#161 Women Leaving Faith
#161 Women Leaving Faith

Three women from three different Abrahamic religions talk with host Gita Sahgal about their experiences growing up in and leaving fundamentalist expressions of faith. Yasmine Mohammed, an ex-Muslim; Frimet Goldberger, formerly an ultra-Orthodox Jew; and Alice Greczyn, an ex-evangelical Christian, share how their different stories overlap with common bonds. Unpacking how religion perpetuates patriarchy offers listeners firsthand accounts of why so many girls and women are leaving toxic faith behind.

PodcastFiLiAViolence Against Women, Secularism, Reproductive Rights
#158 Ann Henderson on Recording the Contribution that Women Make in Academia
#158 Ann Henderson on Recording the Contribution that Women Make in Academia

Ann Henderson was the second female Rector at the University of Edinburgh. During her three-year tenure, she experienced sustained targeting by trans activist students and staff member, while receiving minimal institutional support. In this podcast, she speaks about her background as a campaigner in the labour movement, her work in the railway industry and her experiences leaving her mark in academia.

PodcastFiLiAViolence Against Women, Class Politics, Sex-Based Rights, Reproductive Rights