📣Upcoming Event: 50 Years of Combahee - A Conversation w/ DemitaFrazier & Barbara Smith

🗓️: Wednesday, May 22
⏰: 6:30 PM EDT
📍: Zoom
🔗: bit.ly/Combahee50

📣The event will be recorded. ASL interpretation will be provided.

#blackwomenradicals   #50YearsofCombahee

People often think the most important part of science is the statistical analysis.

But they’re wrong.

The most important part is understanding the data. Who collected it, when, where, why, how, and from whom? Who entered and cleaned it, when, where, why, how, and for whom?

Positive change towards ending #vawg is seen
“at the level of motivated communities & institutions, where people have banded together 2identify local problems &develop innovative solutions, based on the research evidence (&)their knowledge of what works in .. context”
#australia

I'm very pleased to launch our menopause survey to ask women how they learn about menopause and their attitudes specifically for Asian women. I first ran this survey in 2021 and 95% of respondents were white. Last year we launched the same survey for Black women and we have…

‼️ Lords vote to protect migrant victims from immigration enforcement

Risk of detention and removal from the UK stops migrant victims seeking safety, trapping them in abuse

MPs must do the right thing & accept this amendment to the #VictimsBill

👏👏Latin American Women's Rights Service - LAWRS #StepUpMigrantWomen

“it makes you sick. Sick of the discussion,sick of the lack of change,sick of the burden that is repeatedly placed on women to provide a solution for a problem [we] didn't create” Solidarity Australia, marching for an end to male violence against women 💜 abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

🚨 CAMPAIGN WIN 🚨

After years of campaigning with our sisters Rape Crisis England & Wales, Centre for Women's Justice and Rights of Women, we're thrilled that the government is changing the law to help #KeepCounsellingConfidential and better protect rape survivors' right to privacy! 🧵

Go get your sunday reading on!

What's next?
We're looking at you Google to stop highly ranking deepfake sexual abuse sites & nudify apps.
And YouTube -how about removing the videos giving instructions on how to create non-consensual deepfake sexual abuse material?
#DigitalForgeries #EndDeepfakeSexualAbuse

Check out this job at Rape Crisis South London: Chief Executive Officer - great opportunity for a feminist leader to join RASASC. Please share with anyone interested & amongst your networks linkedin.com/jobs/view/3900…

How do abusive workplaces lead to #MeToo experiences & how do we write about them? We’ll be chatting about these issues & #Complicit on the Writing Coercive Control podcast, Tues, Apr 16, 7pm Clear Lines 🎙️Book your #FREE online tix to our live recording eventbrite.com/e/writing-coer…

A statement from our Executive Director, Selma Taha, on the shocking developments around the racist attack on her and her friends on the tube in Sep 2023.

In solidarity ✊

writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/beatr…

One of the best retired from the Crown Prosecution Service today. Jude Watson has championed the response to #VAWG for more than 20 years. An inspiration to so many of us in the sector. We will miss her but she leaves behind the most amazing legacy having transformed millions of women’s lives 💜

'Secrets & Silence will ignite new debates &change perspectives: it insists through presenting new evidence that we consider whether this was a deliberate 'cover up' & whether the doctors were right in their diagnoses.'
Liz Kelly #WPUKCleveland
waterstones.com/book/secrets-a…

I'm gonna be on Women's Hour tomorrow with Emma Barnett talking about Women on Porn - tune in! penguin.co.uk/books/454201/w…

8 March is a day to remember, re-commit and embrace #women ’s struggles for #freedom and #joy across generations and across place.

We persist, towards a world that works for women.

#internationalWomensDay2024 #iwd2024

In their own words, the women of #Rojava describe their revolution, their challenges, achievements and hopes. Thanks to FiLiA for coordinating it. Rojava makes IWD 2024 feel hopeful despite what's going on in the world!

After four decades, the misrepresentations of child sexual abuse in Cleveland must be understood to inform improved responses today.

In the latest CSA Centre blog, Dep. Director Anna Glinski reflects on Beatrix Campbell's new book revisiting Cleveland & it's influence 1/2