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.
Category Archives: Staff Perspectives
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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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Jul
Jul
This blog series emerges from a bi monthly writing group formed through the Palestine Organising Group at Wen – a space for reflection, resistance and collective expression. Rooted in the principles of co-creation and solidarity, this group embodies writing as a feminist practice: one that values shared voices, nurtures care, and centres lived experience. Grounded…