Resourcing Our Resilience: Black Feminist Mapping Across the FiLiA Legacy Cities
Blog by Rosie Lewis (Project Resist)
"We want a women's movement that is for all women, and we mean Black women who are from communities where they are already dealing with violence and abuse... we are campaigning on our own and we want support, or this isn't feminism."
The Michaela School Ruling: Religion, Education and ‘British Values’
Blog by Feminist Dissent
On 16 April 2024 a female Muslim pupil lost her High Court challenge against the banning of Muslim prayers at Michaela Community School, a secular secondary ‘Free School’ in London. Those of us who have been monitoring and challenging the encroachment of religious fundamentalism in schools and colleges breathed a collective sigh of relief at this Court Ruling.
In Peril: religious authorities are closing in on minority women’s rights!
Blog by Pragna Patel (Project Resist) and Maryam Namazie (One Law for All)
For many years, some of us have campaigned against the growth of Sharia councils and the creation of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal because we recognise that all such religious systems of dispute resolution, by their very nature, are tied to a rising politics of religious fundamentalism that targets the rights and freedoms of
Statement on the Genocide in Gaza
Blog by Feminist Dissent
It is self-evident that this is not a symmetrical war or a war without context. While both Hamas and the Israeli state represent fundamentalist and anti-democratic forces of terror and repression that feed off each other, they do so in a profoundly unequal dynamic in which Israel is the dominant force, given the sheer might of its military power and western backing.