Tag: women

Opinion: Release Women From Prison and Give Them the Support They Need
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the government must urgently begin releasing women from prison, while also ensuring that they are supported after their release, writes Sophia Benedict.
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.

Argentinian Women Might Finally Be Winning the Fight to Decriminalise Abortion
Abortion is illegal in Argentina, but in recent years the country's strong feminist movement has made enormous strides in changing public opinion on the issue. As a decriminalisation bill travels through congress, International Women’s Day saw tens of thousands of women protest in Buenos Aires, with demands for free, safe and legal, abortion taking centre-stage.
WTF Is the Women’s Strike?

Dalia Ed hosts a special episode of The Fix, all about the upcoming Women’s Strike. She is joined by Nadine Houghton, Camille Barbagallo, Sam Siva and Molly Gerlach-Arthurs.
Is Capitalism Ruining Women’s Sex Lives?
Under late capitalism the new 'Madonna' is  drip-fed just enough sex, within the confines of a monogamous relationship, to keep her pliant; while the 'Whore' accumulates sexual encounters like capital, writes Joana Ramiro on Valentine's Day.
From the Women’s March to the International Women’s Strike
Cinzia Arruzza, author of Dangerous Liaisons: the Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism, explains the potential of the Women's Marches against Trump to grow into a powerful mass movement linked to wider struggles against oppression and exploitation.
Long Read: 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.
Radical Lives: Moheba Khorsheed
An teacher, activist and later militia fighter, Moheba Khorsheed founded the Chrysanthemum Flowers - the first all-women armed organization of its kind. She also spent her life promoting tolerance and freedom of belief alongside Palestinian liberation.
5 Reasons Not to be a Woman in the UK in 2014
From reproductive rights to Ukip to the internet, women are bearing the brunt of an onslaught which threatens both women's rights and maybe even the sisterhood which won them. Here Tabitha Bast explores what's making 2014 such a bad year to be a woman in the UK.
4 Things You Didn’t Know About Canada’s Betrayal of Aboriginal Women
While the world's eyes have been turned to the missing young women in Nigeria, Canada's Conservative government has been resisting calls to begin an inquiry into the 1000+ unresolved cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. The establishment's refusal to engage and Canada's structural violence against Aboriginal women go hand in hand.

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