
Tag: domestic violence


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.

Domestic Violence or Deportation? The Migrant Women Forced to Choose
by Niamh McIntyre

Cold Comfort: How the ‘Hostile Environment’ Reinforces Violence Against Women
by Dr J

Funding for London’s BME Refuges Slashed by Half in 7 Years
by Niamh McIntyre

Long Read: A Brief Theory of Queer Violence
by Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen

Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity
by Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk

Magdalene Laundries: ‘My life changed the day the state said sorry’
by Mary C
