Tag: domestic violence
Report: A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing
by Rivkah Brown
Report: Staff Are Occupying Northern Ireland’s Only Women’s Hostel to Stop It Being Shut Down
by Anna Cafolla
Regina Coeli House, Northern Ireland’s only women-only hostel, is facing imminent closure. Its staff, however, aren’t having it. Anna Cafolla reports.
Opinion: Underfunding Women’s Refuges is State Violence
by Craig Gent
Opinion: The Tories Are Abandoning Migrant Women to Domestic Abuse
by Rebekah Pierre
Downstream: How Violence Shapes Our Sex Lives
Is ‘consent’ the only dividing line between good sex and bad sex? Ash Sarkar is joined by Rachel Thompson to discuss her new book Rough, and the politics of pornography, kink, and sex ambivalent feminism.
Report: The Women Who Can’t Strike Today Are Exactly Why We Must
by Sophie K Rosa
Report: London Councils Paid Private Landlords £15.8m in a Year to Get Them to Rent to Homeless Families
by Nye Jones
The Lockdown: Prison Island: Prison Expansion in the UK
Back with a new series, hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Nicole, a researcher at Corporate Watch about the British government’s plans for prison expansion, how this will impact people inside and outside prisons and how communities across the country are resisting.
The Lockdown: “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism
Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.