Tag: domestic violence

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.
“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
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
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
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.
A Brief Theory of Queer Violence
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.
‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity
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’
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.
ASR-Hole, Period Drama and Osborne’s Blood Money
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.