Sisters Uncut

Taking direct action for domestic violence services.

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Sunday, December 17, 2017

CN: Details and statistics of incidents of violence against sex workers, transphobic violence, and violence against migrants. On December 17th, Sisters Uncut joins in solidarity with sex workers around the world in remembering the sex workers who have lost their lives this year. IDEVASW began in 2003 as a memorial and vigil for the victims […]

Fundraiser: ‘They Cut We Bleed’ single download

Saturday, December 9, 2017

This month East London-based electro artist Gaptooth released a new single, ‘They Cut We Bleed’ to raise money for Sisters Uncut’s on-going fight against cuts to domestic violence services. The track features chants from Sisters Uncut actions across London last year, including parts of our Feministo, and the video is a look back at some […]

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Sunday, December 3, 2017

CN: descriptions of specific types of domestic violence faced by disabled people Disabled women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence as non-disabled women. Years of vicious cuts have created what that the UN has condemned as a “human catastrophe” for disabled people in the UK, who have been at the forefront of the […]

A tribute to Lois

Monday, November 20, 2017

Our Sister Lois Hubbard 22.12.1929 – 14.11.2017 We write to pay tribute to our sister, Lois Hubbard, who passed away last week. There is so much to say about Lois’s life; decades of fighting injustice, her commitment to empowering women, the children she raised, those she taught and all she loved. But there are others […]

#DontLoseHope: East End Sisters Uncut fights back against closure of women-only hostel in Tower Hamlets

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Feminist protest group, best known locally for taking over an empty council flat in Hackney in 2016, launches campaign to save women-only Whitechapel hostel Group disrupted busy Brick Lane today to demand the hostel is kept open and that there are no cuts to women-only hostel provision Key decision makers will meet at Tower Hamlets […]

In solidarity with the UFFC March: The inquest of Sarah Reed

Saturday, October 28, 2017

CW: Police brutality, sexual violence, state violence, mental health The United Families and Friends Campaign made their annual memorial procession through the streets of London today, the 28th of October. On this day, and every day, Sisters Uncut stand with UFFC to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of the state; […]