The title of this piece is inspired by Sojourner Truth, and later bell hooks’, famous clapback: “Ain’t I a woman?”. Black feminists have always been asked to justify our tactics and sympathies to white women. An article about us in the Jewish Chronicle asks: Why does a feminist group care about Gaza? What has […]
HUNDREDS OF PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN LIVERPOOL STREET TO DEMAND CEASEFIRE ON THE EVE OF THE BOMBING OF JABALIA REFUGEE CAMP. Over 500 people took action to shut down Liverpool St station to amplify urgent demands for a ceasefire in Gaza Sisters Uncut claim it ‘is not business as usual’ and call […]
The Women’s Building* that Peabody has promised to build on the site of Holloway Prison is at risk of housing probationary services. Formerly the largest women’s prison in Europe, Holloway prison was a site of intense violence and harm. The Women’s Building was demanded by the community, to be a space for healing and support […]
2 women a week are killed by a partner or ex-partner
1 in 2 survivors turned away from refuge
refuge funding cut by 1/4 since 2010