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Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights #FiLiA2025 is in Brighton, East Sussex October 10-12 2025 Tickets and so much more @ https://linktr.ee/filiauk

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 6d

The venue for #FiLiA2023 #Glasgow cancelled at the last minute. We spent 2 days in a lawyer's office & won!

We are pleased & reassured that #Brighton & Hove CC have been in touch & confirmed they are not considering cancelling.

See you @ #FiLiA2025

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Sisterhood #Solidarity

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 1m

More #FiLiAFlag pictures being shared, this one is from two of our trustees, @Blackbox666 & Ragani! ♀️♀️

Share a pic with us of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the hashtag #FiLiAFlag in it – one sleep to go! 🎉

🎟️filia.org.uk/tickets

#Sisterhood #Solidarity

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 9h

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

TAKE THE MIC: AMPLIFYING YOUNG WOMEN'S VOICES with nia

Join us for the pre-launch of nia’s first podcast, created to amplify the voices of young women and girls.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Podcasting #YoungWomen #GirlsMatter

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 9h

#FiLiAFlag

Ruth Lewis @ruthlewis.bsky.social · 13h

I'm here! 🤩
#FiLiA2025
#Sisterhood #Solidarity
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 20h

Our first #FiLiAFlag picture comes from one of our volunteers! ♀️♀️

Share a pic of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the #FiLiAFlag in it – let's get excited! 💃💃

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Sisterhood #Solidarity

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 20h

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

•CHALLENGING TOXIC TOWNS•

Meet the Women behind the Netflix series Toxic Town, chaired by Paula Boulton, as they explore how toxic industries specifically affect Women.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Corby #ToxicTown #NetflixToxicTown

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 20h

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

•AM I NOT YOUR GIRL? ART MAKING FOR YOUNG WOMEN•

We will create a collective piece of textile art that commemorates young women’s lives today, what was & what might be. For young women & girls.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Artivism #FeministArt

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 20h

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥

•SPEAK NOW: YOUNG WOMEN'S SPEAKOUT•

Inspired by the speak outs at #Brighton96, Women aged 18-30 & Girls under 18, are invited to stand up, speak out & share with an audience of their peers & elders.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#SpeakOut

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 1d

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥

•A SEAT AT THE TABLE: GETTING A VOICE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT•

This FiLiA Women's Assembly workshop will be led by
@elniedunne.bsky.social, with hopefully lots of interruptions, ideas & suggestions from all present.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#LocalGovernment

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 1d

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥

EqIAs – a tool for change! A FiLiA Women's Assembly &
@womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social workshop to show you how to connect the Public Sector #Equality Duty to real-world decisions, uncover gaps & challenge inequality.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Equality

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 1d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

MISSION & MISOGYNY: This session will reveal how the privileging of faith groups in the charity sector is enabling charities to promote/condone female subordination, sexist 'modesty codes' & even marital rape @natsecsoc.bsky.social

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes – the #Feminists are in town – look at our beautiful #FiLiAFlag ♀️♀️♀️

Share a picture of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with a #FiLiAFlag in it – let's get excited! 💃

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Sisterhood #Solidarity

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

Update: Betty's Lachgar's sentence was upheld after her appeal! H/T @matriactivista.bsky.social

Visit our page, which will be updated with actions, & also links to @maryamnamazie.bsky.social's campaign.

We will show our #solidarity with Betty at #FiLiA2025

#FreeBetty

www.filia.org.uk/freebetty

Join the #FreeBetty campaign — FiLiA

Take a stand for feminist freedom. Visit the #FreeBetty stand to have your photo taken with our striking cardboard cutout of Betty Lachgar — a powerful symbol of resistance and courage.

www.filia.org.uk

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS, a film about the lives of Women whose male partners have ‘transitioned’ or want to do so, followed by a talk b/w director Vaishnavi Sundar and two of the Women in the film.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#BTLG #BehindTheLookingGlass

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

The Women's Platform for Action International panel will address how systems of patriarchal powers converge to undermine Women’s human dignity & freedoms & the importance of global #Feminist organising in fighting this backlash.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#WomensRights

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

ALYSSA AHRABARE @alyssaahrabare.bsky.social, lawyer specialising in European law and fundamental freedoms and President of @cleffemmes.bsky.social, leading a network of 80 French feminist orgs, will be at #FiLiA

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Brighton #Sisterhood #Solidarity

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

As Gisèle Pelicot returns to court face one of the men who raped her, French women are speaking out about the lack of change.

@alyssaahrabare.bsky.social, a speaker at #FiLiA2025, is quoted in this piece.

#ShameMustChangeSides #GisèlePelicot

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gisèle Pelicot faces one of her rapists in court again

Gisèle Pelicot's dominant stance was seen as a moment in France's MeToo movement but the enthusiasm appears to be wilting.

www.bbc.co.uk

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

THE STATE AS PERPETRATOR OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Across the world, to varying degrees, the state either repeatedly fails Women or actively persecutes & dehumanises us. With a contribution from @unsrvaw.bsky.social

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#WomensRights

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥

During this workshop, you will meet the FiLiA Women First team, hear about our work & why prostitution is MVAWG & share ways to ask Women about their involvement in the sex trade.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#InternationalDayofNoProstitution #IDNP #AbolitionNow

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

Today on #InternationalDayofNoProstitution, as part of the #FiLiA Women First project, we have FIVE recommendations for change and we are engaging with local and national government to help make them a reality.

Real Solutions to Prostitution #IDNP

Read more here: filia.org.uk/women-first

Real Solutions to Prostitution — FiLiA

We are a coalition between survivors of the sex trade and professionals working in the VAWG sector.

filia.org.uk

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥

BODY COUNT: after an amazing run at @edfringe.bsky.social, Gabrielle is mesmerising in this darkly funny one-Woman show imagining what the world would be like if there was real justice for Women. Not to be missed!

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#BodyCount

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

New in the #FiLiA shop: the Sudie Rakusin Collection – iconic Lesbian feminist art, celebrating Women’s resistance, visibility & power.

T-shirts, hoodies, totes, prints & more:
🔗 shop.filia.org.uk/collections/sudie-rakusin

#FeministArt #Sisterhood #WomenWillChangeTheWorld #BlackHistoryMonth

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

#Brighton Multicultural Women’s Cycle Club delivers fun, fresh air & freedom, skills, speed & #sisterhood – try a bike at #FiLiA – we’ll get you pedalling too!

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #WomensCycling

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

💥 #FiLiA2025 workshop news 💥

SECOND SPRING: A self-help workshop for peri & menopausal Women, facilitated by Soreh Levy, an acupuncturist with 25 years experience in treating Women’s health issues & qualified workshop facilitator.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#WomensHealth

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

•FEMINISM AND MILITARISM: FEMINIST ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM•

What does feminist peacebuilding look like, here at #FiLiA2025?

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#Peace #AntiWar #Feminist #Sisterhood

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 3d

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥

ZAGROS PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE – co-founded by renowned award-winning percussionist Sara Fotros in October 2023, they create & perform rhythmic compositions inspired by #Kurdish, #Persian & fusion music.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#musictwt

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