10:00am, Monday 14th March 2016 PHOTOS: Sisters Uncut blockade Treasury with fence to demand ring-fenced funding for domestic violence services Domestic violence services across the UK are in crisis without secure long-term funding. Sisters Uncut are a feminist direct action group demanding ring-fenced funding for services The group are notorious for bold, visually creative tactics to […]
Today, International Women’s Day, is a day when leaders worldwide are asked to commit to gender parity. For the two women a week in the UK killed by a current or former partner, “women’s issues” cannot be cordoned off into one day out of 365. A pledge made for one day a year is […]
There’s nothing worse than a sore loser – except a sore loser with the power to make discriminatory, life-threatening decisions that affect an entire country. This week, the government has quietly sent legal representation to the Supreme Court to contest a ruling made by the Court of Appeal last month, a ruling which found the […]
Four thousand, seven hundred and forty five. That’s the number of pieces of green and purple confetti released by Sisters Uncut into a Portsmouth city council budget meeting on Tuesday. A council budget meeting set to pass brutal cuts to domestic violence services. Why 4,745? Because that is the number of incidents of domestic violence […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 9 FEBRUARY 2016 Woman ARRESTED for throwing CONFETTI in council cuts meeting Sisters Uncut are a feminist direct action group protesting cuts to domestic violence services. They have previously stormed the ‘Suffragette’ film premiere and dyed Trafalgar Square fountains blood red. Portsmouth plans to decimate domestic violence services with a £180,000 […]
1 in 4 LGB and 4 out of 5 trans people are estimated to have experienced domestic violence, yet Broken Rainbow is the UK’s only LGBTQ+ specific DV service. In a society where 73% of trans people have experienced at least one form of emotionally abusive behaviour from a partner or ex partner (1), […]