Opinion: Losing Your Mind Is a Proportionate Response to the Climate Crisis
Charlie Hertzog Young
Those who buckle in the face of climate collapse are entirely in tune with reality, writes Charlie Hertzog Young.
Tag: domestic violence
Report: A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing
Rivkah Brown
Exclusive: A domestic violence expert begged Keir Starmer to save Apsana Begum from a trigger ballot process she described as an ‘extension of [her] abuse’. The Labour leader let it continue. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Staff Are Occupying Northern Ireland’s Only Women’s Hostel to Stop It Being Shut Down
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
Craig Gent
Partial reforms don’t scratch the surface of a decade-long assault on an entire network of support for women and their children, writes Craig Gent.
Opinion: The Tories Are Abandoning Migrant Women to Domestic Abuse
Rebekah Pierre
The Domestic Abuse Act, passed in April 2021, was supposedly a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to protect women – just not the ones who need it most, writes former social worker 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
Sophie K Rosa
The pandemic has shown how women's work is disproportionately underpaid, undervalued and unsafe. On International Women's Day, many have gone on strike, but many more won't be able to. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Report: London Councils Paid Private Landlords £15.8m in a Year to Get Them to Rent to Homeless Families
Nye Jones
Exclusive: Data obtained by Novara Media shows that London councils are paying landlords costly incentives to house tenants who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in private rented properties - many of them in poor condition. Nye Jones reports.
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.
Domestic Violence or Deportation? The Migrant Women Forced to Choose
Niamh McIntyre
Many migrants don’t have an automatic right to the protections and spaces most in the UK take for granted. For thousands of migrant women who experience domestic violence every year, it can often come down to a difficult choice - stay in an abusive relationship, or risk being reported to the Home Office.
Cold Comfort: How the ‘Hostile Environment’ Reinforces Violence Against Women
Dr J
The government's 'hostile environment' policy forces health sector workers to act as Home Office informants. As a result, many migrant women are being kept in abusive relationships and denied access to safe abortion services.
Funding for London’s BME Refuges Slashed by Half in 7 Years
Niamh McIntyre
EXCLUSIVE: New data released to Novara Media shows BME women's refuges in London lost between 45% and 52% of their council funding between 2009 and 2016 - much more than was lost by generic services in the same period.
Long Read: A Brief Theory of Queer Violence
Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen
Queer oppression is underwritten by structural violence. Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen write that we must find ways of transforming that violence into a force for change.
Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity
Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk
Feminists have identified that paid work depends on unpaid female labour performed within the household. But what happens queer folk; those denied access to the traditional household unit, forced to find other ways to support themselves? Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk explore the idea that, in some ways, queerness is precarity.
Magdalene Laundries: ‘My life changed the day the state said sorry’
Mary C
Three years ago last month, the Irish state formally apologised for the abuse suffered by women institutionalised in the Magdalene laundries. This survivor's account explains what the recognition has meant to her.
Long Read: ASR-Hole, Period Drama and Osborne’s Blood Money
Cameron Holleran
Sunday Long Read: The autumn spending review revealed Osborne will maintain the loathsome tampon tax and offer the cash to women's charities in a pathetic attempt to patch over the disproportionate effects his welfare cuts have on women.