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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Snuggles' by contemporary UK #printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt #Sunday
Print with a view down a person to their bare feet, as if looking from their eyes, covered in a yellow blanket with a sleeping black cat sleeping on top
September 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Devon, Gold Summer" by Hannah Woodman, contemporary British landscape painter working across Cornwall & Devon #WomensArt
Painting featuring a summer landscape of yellow field with ling grasses in the foreground with house and tree in the distance under a golden sky and sun
August 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Charm of Goldfinches' by Kerry Buck, contemporary UK printmaker #womensart #latesummer
Print featuring four small birds perched on the spikey seedheads of plants against a cream background
August 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
Last night, we finished the MOTHER of all spreadsheets to be uploaded to the #FiLiA2025 platform!

📇📝🗓 105 sessions
🙋‍♀️👩‍💻🎭 249 speakers / performers/ facilitators
🌏🌎🌍 58 countries
📣🤬💔 anti-Femicide rally
💃🥳🥂 party

Monumental volunteer effort 💜💚

#Feminism pure and simple ♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️

🎟 filia.org.uk/tickets
FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference — FiLiA
Book your tickets today to participate in the larges annual feminist conference in Europe. Learn about global feminism and be inspired by the women who are taking down the patriarchy and challenging t...
www.filia.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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womensportfeminism.bsky.social
'Violence against women and girls is rooted in the material reality of their biological sex, which often intersects with other aspects thereby augmenting their vulnerability to violence'.
Exactly so.
@unsrvaw.bsky.social
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN expert calls for reaffirming importance of sex in description of violence against women and girls
GENEVA – The centrality of sex in the experiences of discrimination and violence must be urgently re-established to effectively prevent and respond to the growing global phenomenon of violence against...
www.ohchr.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
'As I write this, from where I live in #Manchester, England, there are 49 women judges in #Afghanistan and 19 stuck in transit in #Pakistan who urgently need help to survive and escape.'

Hear @qmarziababakarkh.bsky.social at #FiLiA2025

Tickets available NOW 🎟

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June 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
WONDERFUL NEWS FOR OUR #Friday

We just sold our 1500th ticket – so that's HALF OF #FILIA2025 TICKETS NOW RESERVED! Thank you 💚🤍💜

Join us at the #feminist event of the year! 💥

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
May 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
'Mahboubeh Khosronejad is the 14th woman execution recorded in 2025 & the 9th to be hanged for murder. #Iran executes the highest no. of women globally.

A no. of Iranian activists will speak at #FiLiA2025

#WomanLifeFreedom #WomensRevolution

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

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Woman Among Seven People Executed in Iran
Seven prisoners were executed on Monday across multiple prisons in Iran, according to human rights monitors.The executions took place i ...
iranwire.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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jamesdreyfushobbes.bsky.social
Amazing it even had to go this far…

Uk Supreme Court.

“Woman = Adult Human Female”.

Unanimous.
April 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
We are supporting the launch of @rahilag.bsky.social and Beatrix Campbell's new book, Planet Patriarchy

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and is chaired by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

🗓️ 3rd July 6.30pm BST
📌 Women's Resource Centre, London
🎟️ bit.ly/PlanetPatriarchy

#PlanetPatriarchy
April 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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sisterssalon.bsky.social
The ICC must boycott the men's Afghan team.

With Afghan women stripped of their basic human rights #ItsJustNotCricket

Take action 🏏
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-four/

#RespectWomen #EndGenderAparthied
December 29, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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sarahphillimore.bsky.social
Sounds a great event, get your tickets now!
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · Dec 29
Who are the ‘gender critical’ transphobes on the selection panel for the Oxford Literary Festival who are giving these bigots a platform???

ONE transphobe is bad enough, but TWO is no accident! 😣

oxfordliteraryfestival.org/about/festiv...
Festival team | Oxford Literary Festival
Festival team
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December 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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womensportfeminism.bsky.social
“A male can never be a lesbian as a matter of fact, whether he is in possession of a GRC recording his acquired sex as female or not. This is because he will never be female. It cannot seriously be disputed that humans are a sexually dimorphic species.”
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
How UK's highest court is about to decide what a 'woman' is
A long-running row over how to define a women is set to come to a head at the UK Supreme Court
www.scotsman.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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victoriapeckham.bsky.social
Blessed are the whistleblowers. From Children in Need to the Church it takes moral courage to speak out. My @thetimes.com column.

www.thetimes.com/article/0905...
Wilful blindness is a blight on organisations
From Children in Need to the Tavistock Gids clinic, those who expose malfeasance are rarely thanked and often removed
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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mrrickygervais.bsky.social
Xmas Ad 🎄
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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wildwomynworkshop.bsky.social
So shocking

Transgender police allowed to strip-search women under new guidance

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

@telegraphnews.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto creates delicate fabric orbs which can be worn
Photograph showing a necklace of linked together soft fabric and see through orbs, which contain different items such as a tiny fabric bicycle, fabric fish or organic looking forms on diffetent colours, all laid out on a white surface
November 20, 2024 at 6:55 AM
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protectallwildlife.bsky.social
#ThoughtForTheDay

Please don't buy whilst shelter dogs die 😓

#AdoptDontShop 🐾
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Early morning light on snow', by Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes
Pictorial textile work featuring a rural winter landscape of snow covered fields lined with a central gate and bushy hedgerows on each side, in the distance is a snowy sloped field all under a bluish white sky
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Wren In Winter' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays
Print featuring a bird on a branch, side view, facing left with head and tail feathers pointing upwards, and behind branches with red round berries are against a white backdrop
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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sarahmaginness.bsky.social
#AreYouAMan #HesAMan #WomenAreWatching

GET MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

(And all the other women’s sports, spaces, places, prizes that women have created and fought for, for themselves, over decades.)
Get men out of women’s football sign
November 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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empressjordyn.bsky.social
Sign this!!
chng.it/4ZHPgVkwKh
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Tell the FA to ban men from playing in women's football teams.
chng.it
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Nigerian artist and designer Nike Davies-Okundaye watercolour with pen and ink
Artwork of a Black female figure with head scarf and long robe,, sitting facing forwards when looking left, in her right hand is an artist's palette which she holds to her chest, her otber arm is down, behind the figure is a backdrop with line and dash patterning
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 AM