‘We want a women's movement that is for all women, and we mean Black women who are from communities where they are already dealing with violence and abuse... we are campaigning on our own and we want support, or this isn't feminism.’
Quote from Project Resist’s interviews with regional grassroots Black and minoritised women’s groups in 2024.
Resourcing Our Resilience: Black Feminist Mapping Across the FiLiA Legacy Cities documents and maps the work of Black and minoritised women-led organisations and groups that are based in and around six FiLiA ‘legacy’ cities: Manchester, Bradford, Glasgow, Portsmouth, Cardiff and Brighton. Conducted in early 2024 by Project Resist, as part of the FiLiA Legacy Project, the report centres the voices and struggles of Black and minoritised women-led organisations and groups, particularly in the north of England. The report highlights the often-discriminatory state and community contexts within which regional Black and minoritised-led women’s organisations and groups exist. These women face higher levels of deprivation, racism, isolation and ‘non-inclusion’ and receive a disproportionately low level of investment and funding. Their needs and concerns are often excluded from mainstream London-centric policy making. After two politically turbulent political years, we have witnessed the far-right riots, the repealing of legislation that protect migrant people’s rights, an increase in racially motivated hate crimes, rampant misogyny (both on and offline), an epidemic of violence against women and girls, an escalation in anti-immigration hostility and a diminishing welfare state. This is why in 2026, this report remains as relevant, timely and important as it did in 2024.
About Project Resist:
Project Resist is an independent strategic advocacy and policy organisation for Black and minoritised women subject to gender-based harm and related issues of inequality, discrimination and marginalisation. Their vision is to empower marginalised Black and minority women to realise their rights and freedoms in all aspects of their civil, social, political, economic and cultural lives. Through robust and fearless advocacy, they strive to challenge all systems of power, privilege and censorship that stand in the way of women’s access to equality, dignity, peace and security.
You can find out more about their work and campaigns at www.projectresist.org.uk.