Caroline Lucas shares a powerful foreword on why climate change is not gender neutral and why feminist climate justice must centre women in climate solutions.
Category Archives: Women’s voices
Staff Perspectives, Women's voices
Staff Perspectives: Helen Lynn on activism and her journey with Wen
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Mar
Mar
Wen’s Senior Consultant and Research fellow shares her passion for feminist activism and what keeps her optimistic.
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Mar
Mar
To mark the launch of Wen’s archive at LSE, we are sharing a message from Wen’s Founder, Bernadette Vallely, reflecting on the beginnings of the organisation and the hope that continues to sit at the heart of our work.
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Feb
Feb
Meet some of the women who have shaped the Just FACT programme over the last five years
Staff Perspectives, Women's voices
STAFF PERSPECTIVE: HUNGER STRIKES, FEMINIST HISTORIES AND RESISTANCE
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Jan
Jan
A staff perspective on the hunger strike by UK Prisoners for Palestine, exploring its historical context in feminist and anti-colonial struggles, the urgent risks to health, and the call for justice and care.
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Dec
Dec
Read our Therapeutic Gardener, Bernadette’s diary – taken from her sessions in a women’s refuge. Each entry holds a memory from the garden, showing the rhythm of change, the friendships that form and the small but meaningful joys that make Soil Sisters such a special programme.
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Nov
Nov
When women’s health is taken seriously, everyone benefits. The renewed Women’s Health Strategy can drive fairer workplaces, prevention, dignity and equality.
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Nov
Nov
Conversations about period product safety often prompt important but sometimes confusing debates about what the science really tells us. It’s not unusual, when evidence begins to challenge the status quo, for discussions to turn towards doubt and delay.
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Sep
Sep
Staff Perspective – by Shazna Hussain On International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (29 September), Shazna Hussain from our Food Lives programme, shares her experience as a community researcher in Tower Hamlets and what needs to change to reduce food waste. Food Lives is part of a Wen programme to explore what…
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Creator, artist and public figure honored for her commitment and pioneering work in the environmental sector, we spoke to Judy Ling Wong, founder of the Black Environment Network (BEN). Judy is a major voice in policy towards social inclusion and has worked for over thirty years in environmental participation, increasing access to the environmental sector, and nature itself, within Black and ethnic minority communities. Her philosophy around engaging people in environmental action is based on giving people the opportunity to experience and enjoy nature firsthand, particularly wild nature.