After reclaiming Holloway Prison’s Visitor Centre and working with community groups on a new vision for Holloway, we at Sisters Uncut hope that the new owners, Peabody, will listen to our demands and stick to their promises. In May 2017 we reclaimed Holloway Prison’s Visitor Centre. We transformed a space of state violence, holding a […]
North London Sisters Uncut hack London tube lines, replacing adverts with poems from women & non-binary people who have been silenced by the state. The poems share real stories of how government cuts and ‘hostile environment’ policies have left survivors locked up in prison, locked out of refuges, and locked in violent relationships. The group […]
Content note: racism, murder, domestic abuse, misogyny Sisters Uncut stormed the Baftas, occupied a prison for a week and now, on International Women’s Day, has taken over London’s underground with poems. Why? While the government likes to use this day to present itself as feminist, its policies are criminalising women and non-binary people. The poems […]
In March last year, the Stansted 15 disrupted an act of state violence – the forceful deportation of people by charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana. The Stansted 15 had every reason to believe that people on board the aircraft were being led into severe danger, and so they had every reason to do everything […]
Download a press release here. Tonight, Sisters Uncut delivered 30,000 sheets of paper to the door of the Crown Prosecution Service, on Max Hill QC’s first day in post as its head. 30,000 sheets of paper was enough to prompt an evacuation of the building, but according to CPS policy it is a perfectly acceptable […]
CN: discussion around detention, state violence, deportation and abuse The below poems were written by Latin American women as part of a workshop with the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) [1]. These are their experiences of immigration enforcement as migrant women and survivors of domestic violence. The workshop where they were written is part […]