Prison is a violent and inhumane response to the social problems faced by vulnerable women and non-binary people. In the UK, at least 46% of women in prison are survivors of domestic violence, while 81% are imprisoned for non-violent offences, often related to survival and exploitation. 53% of women in prison report having […]
Earlier this year, we wrote a blog about how 100 years on from the Suffragettes, thousands of non-binary people and women still don’t have the right to vote. This week, the government has confirmed plans to simplify the process for survivors of domestic violence to vote anonymously. The current, soon to change, system unfairly […]
Content note: sexual violence, police violence, racism, rape Today the inquest into the death of Sarah Reed aged 32, a working class woman of colour with serious mental health issues, found dead in her cell in Holloway Prison on 11 January 2016, begins. Over a likely 3/4 weeks, the coroner will hear evidence around the […]
Feminist group Sisters Uncut have occupied the recently closed Holloway Prison to demand the government fund domestic violence services ‘Public land for public good’: Sisters Uncut demand the old women’s prison becomes a women’s centre Sisters Uncut represent the ‘voice of domestic violence survivors’, who have been locked out of voting by Theresa May Email: […]
Shortly before she called the general election, Prime Minister Theresa May commissioned a statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett to stand in Westminster. The statue, she said, would be “a reminder of how politics only has value if it works for everyone in society.” I agree: political inclusion is a fundamental right. Even if it’s […]
Yesterday, Theresa May PM called a snap general election, which will take place on 8th June. So, in less than two months we might have a new government, or we could face another five years with the Tories. Let’s be honest, the last year in politics has been confusing, terrifying and for many of our […]