Ruth Lewis
@ruthlewis.bsky.social
Woman, mother, breastfeeding counsellor, volunteer, proofreader, editor.
I'm quoted in The Times today after our panel session at #FiLiA2025. My brother's response when I shared in a family whatsapp group was "I would imagine that you said a bit more than that". Yes I did, considerably more. When men are in the room, there are significant numbers of women who won't be.
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm quoted in The Times today after our panel session at #FiLiA2025. My brother's response when I shared in a family whatsapp group was "I would imagine that you said a bit more than that". Yes I did, considerably more. When men are in the room, there are significant numbers of women who won't be.
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Today on #InternationalDayofNoProstitution, as part of the #FiLiA Women First project, we have FIVE recommendations for change and we are engaging with local and national government to help make them a reality.
Real Solutions to Prostitution #IDNP
Read more here: filia.org.uk/women-first
Real Solutions to Prostitution #IDNP
Read more here: filia.org.uk/women-first
Real Solutions to Prostitution — FiLiA
We are a coalition between survivors of the sex trade and professionals working in the VAWG sector.
filia.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today on #InternationalDayofNoProstitution, as part of the #FiLiA Women First project, we have FIVE recommendations for change and we are engaging with local and national government to help make them a reality.
Real Solutions to Prostitution #IDNP
Read more here: filia.org.uk/women-first
Real Solutions to Prostitution #IDNP
Read more here: filia.org.uk/women-first
Having Marian's support means a huge amount to us. She is a phenomenal woman. You can see Helen Joyce's interview with her here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-v...
We feel honoured to have the support of the inspirational Marian Tompson and were delighted that she was more than happy to give us a quote for our website. Thank you, Marian, for all that you have done for breastfeeding mothers and babies everywhere.
October 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Having Marian's support means a huge amount to us. She is a phenomenal woman. You can see Helen Joyce's interview with her here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-v...
It's National Poetry Day. This is one that really spoke to me when I first read it in Musings on Mothering 13 years ago. It still does, and my babies are now fabulous young women.
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's National Poetry Day. This is one that really spoke to me when I first read it in Musings on Mothering 13 years ago. It still does, and my babies are now fabulous young women.
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One of our MoMa Breastfeeding Counsellors spotted this bronze ‒ Charity by Paul Dubois from around 1870 ‒ at Harris library in Preston. Beautiful!
#breastfeedingart
#breastfeedingart
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One of our MoMa Breastfeeding Counsellors spotted this bronze ‒ Charity by Paul Dubois from around 1870 ‒ at Harris library in Preston. Beautiful!
#breastfeedingart
#breastfeedingart
Can't wait! 💜🤍💚
Some of our volunteers just spent a wonderful few days in #Brighton, flyering local people & businesses about #FiLiA2025
It was a great reception & everyone was very pleased to hear so many Women are coming to town for THREE DAYS of #feminism
Join us: filia.org.uk/tickets
It was a great reception & everyone was very pleased to hear so many Women are coming to town for THREE DAYS of #feminism
Join us: filia.org.uk/tickets
September 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can't wait! 💜🤍💚
I'm honoured to be taking part in this panel session at #FiLiA2025 next month. And @momabfing.bsky.social has a stall there too - please do come and say hello!
💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥
MATERNITY AND BREASTFEEDING: Advocating together for Women’s #maternity and #breastfeeding needs, grounded in physiology, language, culture and sex-based rights @momabfing.bsky.social @annamelamed.bsky.social
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
MATERNITY AND BREASTFEEDING: Advocating together for Women’s #maternity and #breastfeeding needs, grounded in physiology, language, culture and sex-based rights @momabfing.bsky.social @annamelamed.bsky.social
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm honoured to be taking part in this panel session at #FiLiA2025 next month. And @momabfing.bsky.social has a stall there too - please do come and say hello!
Just finished reading Milli Hill's Ultra-Processed Women. Everyone should read this book; it is such an eye opener. It's quite scary, but also full of sensible practical things that feel achievable and that will make a genuine difference.
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just finished reading Milli Hill's Ultra-Processed Women. Everyone should read this book; it is such an eye opener. It's quite scary, but also full of sensible practical things that feel achievable and that will make a genuine difference.
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This week MoMa mourns the death of Dr Michel Odent. He was a champion for mothers & giving birth “back to women”. His advocacy reminded us that birth is a physiological, deeply instinctive process, with a natural integrity which should be protected from unnecessary intervention.
August 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This week MoMa mourns the death of Dr Michel Odent. He was a champion for mothers & giving birth “back to women”. His advocacy reminded us that birth is a physiological, deeply instinctive process, with a natural integrity which should be protected from unnecessary intervention.
Sometimes there are pieces that it is a huge privilege to proofread. This was one of those.
4 years #Afghanistan
Brave young Woman writes for #FiLiA
'And if you are reading this, you have heard it.
That means I am still alive. That means we are still here.
#FutureArchitect of freedom Basira Rahmati, still standing, still speaking.'
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
Brave young Woman writes for #FiLiA
'And if you are reading this, you have heard it.
That means I am still alive. That means we are still here.
#FutureArchitect of freedom Basira Rahmati, still standing, still speaking.'
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
Stabbing Or Shooting Someone Is Not the Only Way to Kill Them — FiLiA
But then, everything stopped. Two years into my studies, the Taliban returned to power. With a few cruel words, they closed the doors of every university to women. My faculty, once a symbol of hope a...
www.filia.org.uk
August 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sometimes there are pieces that it is a huge privilege to proofread. This was one of those.
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We're adding content to our website ‒ including videos. Here's our first one and you can find more breastfeeding tips on our website. 👇
August 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We're adding content to our website ‒ including videos. Here's our first one and you can find more breastfeeding tips on our website. 👇
Reposted by Ruth Lewis
It's World Breastfeeding Week. www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
August 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's World Breastfeeding Week. www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
Language matters and in some situations it can cause serious harm when it is used inaccurately. Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Require the use of sexed language in government-funded health communications
Require the terms woman, girl and mother be used in their sexed meanings of adult female person, female child and female parent in government-funded healthcare groups and communications including poli...
petition.parliament.uk
August 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Language matters and in some situations it can cause serious harm when it is used inaccurately. Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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We founded MoMa Breastfeeding on our core values that have also been forgotten elsewhere, including centring the mother-baby dyad. Mother-to-mother support in a welcoming single-sex space is vital for many mothers when accessing breastfeeding support.
open.substack.com/pub/janhavin...
open.substack.com/pub/janhavin...
July 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We founded MoMa Breastfeeding on our core values that have also been forgotten elsewhere, including centring the mother-baby dyad. Mother-to-mother support in a welcoming single-sex space is vital for many mothers when accessing breastfeeding support.
open.substack.com/pub/janhavin...
open.substack.com/pub/janhavin...
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“Breastfeeding women really benefit from peer support, and I was delighted to see the new women-only, mother-led service [...] MoMa Breastfeeding, which offers volunteer-led, free breastfeeding support exclusively to women, after existing groups denied women single-sex support.”
July 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“Breastfeeding women really benefit from peer support, and I was delighted to see the new women-only, mother-led service [...] MoMa Breastfeeding, which offers volunteer-led, free breastfeeding support exclusively to women, after existing groups denied women single-sex support.”
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It's a couple of weeks ago that one of MoMa's co-founders and directors, @ruthlewis.bsky.social, talked to Kelly Oliver Dougal about breastfeeding, setting up MoMa and what led up to doing that. Do go and have a listen to their conversation!
youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...
youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...
July 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's a couple of weeks ago that one of MoMa's co-founders and directors, @ruthlewis.bsky.social, talked to Kelly Oliver Dougal about breastfeeding, setting up MoMa and what led up to doing that. Do go and have a listen to their conversation!
youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...
youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...
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Tune in at 8 o'clock BST this evening to hear @ruthlewis.bsky.social, one of the MoMa Breastfeeding co-founders, talking to Kelly Oliver Dougal @KODPOW. youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...
MoMa - no men allowed into new breastfeeding support organisation for mothers and babies.
YouTube video by Kelly Oliver Dougall
youtu.be
July 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tune in at 8 o'clock BST this evening to hear @ruthlewis.bsky.social, one of the MoMa Breastfeeding co-founders, talking to Kelly Oliver Dougal @KODPOW. youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...
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Misrepresentative of my position in the report. Im not against the use of gender and use it all the time. I am alarmed by the exclusion of sex based considerations in analysing the experiences of women and girls - a concern backed by international law.
NEW: We signed on to a statement opposing efforts by the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women to exclude gender in her work.
We can't disregard how sex and gender intersect in the lived realities of those facing violence.
Full statement: www.globaljusticecenter.net/oral-stateme...
We can't disregard how sex and gender intersect in the lived realities of those facing violence.
Full statement: www.globaljusticecenter.net/oral-stateme...
Oral Statement: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
Violence against women and girls is pervasive, evolving, and requires an all-tools approach by the Council if it is to be ended. Excluding a gender analysis from efforts to addressing violence against...
www.globaljusticecenter.net
June 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Misrepresentative of my position in the report. Im not against the use of gender and use it all the time. I am alarmed by the exclusion of sex based considerations in analysing the experiences of women and girls - a concern backed by international law.
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We love this breastfeeding street art in Palermo, Sicily. 🤱
June 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We love this breastfeeding street art in Palermo, Sicily. 🤱
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‘Violent porn showing choking and strangulation will be made illegal through the #Crime and #Policing Bill.’
We support the Government acting against the normalisation of strangulation. If it is illegal in real life, it should be illegal online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
We support the Government acting against the normalisation of strangulation. If it is illegal in real life, it should be illegal online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Violent pornography showing strangulation to be banned
Violent porn showing choking and strangulation will be made illegal through the Crime and Policing Bill, the government has announced
www.independent.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
‘Violent porn showing choking and strangulation will be made illegal through the #Crime and #Policing Bill.’
We support the Government acting against the normalisation of strangulation. If it is illegal in real life, it should be illegal online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
We support the Government acting against the normalisation of strangulation. If it is illegal in real life, it should be illegal online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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We're in for a hot spell! For exclusively breastfeeding babies, their mummy's milk is all they need.
June 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We're in for a hot spell! For exclusively breastfeeding babies, their mummy's milk is all they need.
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Looking forward to hearing Milli Hill at #FiLiA2025 talking about her book, Ultra Processed Women.
The online book launch is tonight via Zoom – tickets are available here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/milli...
You can order her book at #OurFeministLibrary
uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/97800...
#BookSky
The online book launch is tonight via Zoom – tickets are available here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/milli...
You can order her book at #OurFeministLibrary
uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/97800...
#BookSky
June 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Looking forward to hearing Milli Hill at #FiLiA2025 talking about her book, Ultra Processed Women.
The online book launch is tonight via Zoom – tickets are available here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/milli...
You can order her book at #OurFeministLibrary
uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/97800...
#BookSky
The online book launch is tonight via Zoom – tickets are available here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/milli...
You can order her book at #OurFeministLibrary
uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/97800...
#BookSky
Marian Tompson is a phenomenal woman. She is in her 90s and still fighting for what is right. I treasure this gift that she had made and sent to me (by a talented friend of hers) late last year. It's on magnetic paper and lives on my fridge. 🥰
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Marian Tompson is a phenomenal woman. She is in her 90s and still fighting for what is right. I treasure this gift that she had made and sent to me (by a talented friend of hers) late last year. It's on magnetic paper and lives on my fridge. 🥰
We pronounce it Moh-Muh, but people will say it how they like. I also like that it's quite close to Mama which is what one of my girls sometimes called me when she was little.
We thought we’d share a little bit about MoMa Breastfeeding. The MoMa part of our name comes from Mothers Make, because it is the fundamental truth of our organisation. Mothers make everything ‒ our support, our meetings and of course the babies & the breastmilk!
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We pronounce it Moh-Muh, but people will say it how they like. I also like that it's quite close to Mama which is what one of my girls sometimes called me when she was little.