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www.havenforartists.org

The Feminist Review Trust is funding specific activities which promote women within Save Lamu’s larger No-to-Coal Campaign. These activities will empower 103 women by providing knowledge on human and environmental rights; and skills in advocacy, campaigning over social media communication to enable their active participation in shaping Lamu’s future.  Through training events including a specific event for young women, the women will ultimately become activists for sustainable development. In addition, it is hoped that by being part of the No-to-Coal movement and the Save Lamu community as a way of life, the women will be inspired to remain active in the community and social media.  The activities will ensure that women are not left behind and their voices are heard when decisions are made about the future of Lamu.

www.savelamu.org

With a grant from the Feminist Review Trust, Sulong! Philippines plans to expand significantly Sulong! Sandigan by adding medical aid to its roster of existing services. This will include free medical teleconsultations and physical consultations regarding sexual health, support with accessing prescribed medicine and laboratory procedures. Shelters and clinics will also be supplied with birth control pills and other sexual-health related products. To jump start this new service, Sulong! is currently in talks for partnership with Kindred, a women’s health organisation providing care facilities and communication channels as its core – the staff of which is currently accomplishing training to be able to begin medical aid services soon. Moreover, the addition of medical aid takes the project to the next step, moving from a purely online format to now making physical consultations and support possible, by shouldering the transportation costs of victim-survivors for in-person check-ups and pertinent laboratory procedures. With this, Sulong! Philippines aims to cater to more community members and adopt a more holistic approach towards recovery and justice.

As well as providing services, the grant will be used to promote the service to new audiences.

With the support of the Feminist Review Trust, Cinenova’s project will focus on the production of a digital platform and a printed zine to record and archive the newly digitised films and response commissions. This new digital platform will be used in community workshops, education settings, and to encourage conversation and learning around feminist filmmaking practices. It is hoped this project will support new generations of artists to engage with Cinenova’s rich history as well as its possible future uses and inspirations.

www.cinenova.org

In Bolivia, gender-based violence is structural: 113 femicides in 2020, and 31 in the first quarter of 2021. The pandemic increased the vulnerability of many women, who are not only overloaded by household chores, but also are obliged to stay with their aggressors. Social isolation prevented them from having access to self-care tools and, consequently, their own integral health has been weakened, as well as the health of the people around them (social, physical, psychological and spiritual). Women have no support and continue living under oppressive situations, jeopardising their own and their children’s lives. Furthermore, open spaces that offer assistance through a feminist perspective are scarce and often non-existing. There are many initiatives where women are re-victimised, since they value religious principles that strengthen patriarchal bonds. Government agencies have directed most of their attention and financial resources to control the pandemic. Therefore, the services for the prevention, assistance, and recovery in cases of violence against women have been neglected.

This project not only provides assistance for woman facing actual violent situations, but also promotes supportive relationships between women as a way of life, so that fewer and fewer women find themselves alone facing sexist and patriarchal violence.

www.somossur.net

Translation has always been at the core of their work. Their collaborative translation work offers not only a space to expand language together, but also to sharpen the necessary theoretical tools around their work. The grant from the Feminist Review Trust will extend this work for further feminist material.

www.sdc-haifa.org/en/

www.reroutinginitiative.org

Under this project, eight articles will be created with popular and understandable language, proofread by a professional. The articles will be about sexual orientation, gender identity and its expression, body perception, consent and boundaries, early sex life, sexual dysfunctions, STDs.

To reach as many readers as possible, compelling and engaging Instagram stories will be created with a quote related to the article’s key message to increase the interest and the number of platform visitors. Album-type Instagram posts will also be created, which will be a brief ‘trailer’ of the article and help the viewer to understand the general idea shortly and become interested in the extended version.

One of a kind and noteworthy thumbnail visuals will be made for each article. Internal visuals will be created, too, to explain some specific terms, terminology, etc. To reach as many readers as possible, we will advertise our content, website, and Facebook page via Facebook Ads, Google SEO, and Adwords. To gather many loyal readers around the platform, the Facebook group will be created. It will be a space to share the news related to the women, share new articles, and listen to their opinions and needs.

The Tour is not simply designed to give voice to the silenced, uncomfortable stories of the city centre, but also to create alliances and strengthen connection with local collectives.  It will be supported by a series of multimedia material, such as Fanzines, Podcasts and videos. It represents a project of feminist and self-sustained economy that aims to give Sindihogar a long-term source of financial funding, as well as a space that values the intellectual, historical and pedagogical research that has been developed by Sindihogar throughout its 10 years of experience. The Feminist Review Trust grant will cover the expanses of the first phase of the project (research, training and launching).

Information about the project and how to participate is at www.sindihogar.org.

The podcast is produced in seasons of 10 episodes around a specific theme for the whole season. The episodes are very interactive and include interviews, quizzes, scenarios and snapshots about news or research on the topic discussed to enable better understanding and foster public engagement. The first season was on the normalizing and tolerance of rape in the daily discourse in the Haitian society. The second season is on consent. The team is already working on the third season which is on trauma. ANVA’s intent for Koze Kilti Vyòl has been to reach the widest range of the Haitian society by creating the content in creole thus accessible to 100% of the population as opposed to French, adapting the technology online for young people and those with access to internet. The group also uses community radios in rural areas that are usually harder to reach, conducting roundtables to discuss the topic of rape in the form of workshops in schools, churches and other meeting places as well as with other women associations There is a Koze Kilti Vyòl community on social media to discuss the topics and share the episodes of the podcast as well as the work and news of organizations working with similar objectives.

www.kozekiltivyol.com

Foxwood will be providing an opportunity for women to gain a practical hands-on introduction to the manual trades and shift the idea that these are jobs only men can do. Women can excel in these trade roles, providing a new perspective. The Foxwood Project wants the next generation of women to have the opportunities missed by previous generations.

The project will aim to make the voices of LGBTI+ individuals heard through workshops that will be given by activists and academicians and will include special provisions for each of these groups such as quotas for trans/non-binary participants. The project will also try to include refugee women especially from Syrian background and women with disabilities by using Arabic, English and Turkish sign language (TSL) translations for the workshops and including NGOs that specifically target these groups.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project will be held on an online platform. To increase participation by relevant stakeholders, the project will be run in collaboration with local and national feminist and LGBTI+ organisations and workshops will be recorded for future use. The website for the Unikuir LGBTI+ NGO will be updated with a section dedicated to resources related to the project as well as the recordings of the workshops and reports that will be created at the end of the project.

The support of the Feminist Review Trust helps with the first part of the project, based on the collection of the grassroot sex workers’ civil association Ammar Córdoba which holds a huge array of documents involving 20 years of public activism and territorial organization. The sex workers urgently need to protect their historical documents, since their dispersion and lack of proper storage conditions is making its deterioration progressive. No less important is the advanced age of many of their colleagues, some suffering from health problems: the oral dimension of this archival project is a way to carefully render safe and honour their memories and wisdom.

Archival initiatives are a way to preserve the sex workers’ history among peers and to have historical political contributions recognised by other social collectives in the fight against inequality, criminalization and the achievement of rights.

https://allmylinks.com/ammar-cordoba-sindicato

In 2010, in order to reduce the mortality ratio and adverse health effects of those who undergo clandestine abortions under unsafe conditions, La Revuelta Feminist Collective (LR) created Socorro Rosa (SR). This is a mechanism to support women and give information and access to safe medical abortions. Two years later, upon the initiative of LR, the collective Socorristas en Red (SenR) was founded. This network consists now of 54 collectives from all over the country. LR and SenR  help women get access to legal abortions in the health system.

On 24 January 2021, abortion became legal up to the 14th week of pregnancy. Once the 14th week has passed, abortion is legal only in cases of rape or if the mother’s health is in danger.

This project, funded in part by the Feminist Review Trust, will focus on girls and teenagers since they represent the most vulnerable group. Every three hours, a girl aged between 10 and 14 gives birth in Argentina. One in every six children is born to a teen mother, 69% of those pregnancies are unintended and many are the result of sexual abuse. The project has three strategies: 1) Expansion of girls and teenagers’ access to safe abortions; 2) CSE awareness campaigns and training; 3) Institutional strengthening of the collective. Specifically the FRT funding will cover the cost of a telephone service.

https://larevuelta.com.ar/

https://socorristasenred.org/quienes-somos/

Most of the women taking part are from marginalised backgrounds: all have been in prison, many have experienced homelessness, many have experience of the care system and many have experiences of substance dependency. However, many of them are artists and community leaders. The project will offer training and employment opportunities and artist commissions, to build on their existing skills.

With trained female mental health professionals, the project supports women through returning and telling their stories. In Forum Theatre workshops, participants will explore memories of prison and work together to envisage reform of the female criminal justice system. This project will create a community-hub, bringing impacted communities together to explore visions for the future of this site and the female prison system, involving the long-ignored voices of the former offenders in this conversation.

www.powerplayproductions.org

In 2011, in the context of the “war against drug trafficking”, several mass arrests were made to dismantle drug cartels. Many women were imprisoned and received preventive detention and today, they continue without a sentence. In many cases, these women had serious violations of their human rights, especially their right to a due legal process. All these cases share a lack of adequate defence, torture at the time of their detention, and deprivation of liberty in centres far from their hometown.  Moreover many of the women belong to an indigenous community and are in detention a long way from their home, without access to a translator or interpreter.

The objective of this project is to contribute to access of justice for women in Baja California, Mexico City and Chiapas,  who have exceeded the constitutional limit of 2 years of preventive detention. For women dealing with criminal law, it is important to pursue non-custodial measures, and the effective implementation of the National Law of Criminal Enforcement, which takes up principles and provisions of international instruments, such as the Bangkok Rules where it is established that women deprived of liberty do not pose a risk to society and their imprisonment only hinders their social reintegration. It is urgent to apply the gender and intersectional approach in the prison and justice system in Mexico to reduce disproportionate burdens on women when they face the justice system. The ASILEGAL team will work extensively to make a change and help the forgotten women of the war against drugs, get justice.

asilegal.org.mx

The event will serve as a springboard for editors and ECRs to engage with critical conversations around these missing “Global South” feminist voices in academic journals and how we can tackle these with care and solidarity. A key aim of the workshop is to create the foundation for long-term critical feminist change projects and collaborations. This will include the dissemination of talks given at the workshop through a dedicated digital platform.

The workshop is further geared towards editors learning and working collaboratively with the Early Career Researchers to examine critically their journals’ editing, reviewing and publishing practices and foster more inclusive approaches to how they operate and make editorial decisions from feminist perspectives.

The course takes inspiration from the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s and aims to prove that feminism is for everybody. The key objectives of the project are that the women who participate are able to :

• • understand how gender inequality has impacted them as women
  • better understand themselves through the educational content of the programme
  • communicate with and value other women
  • develop greater emotional resilience through the learning gained on the programme and the connection to other women
  • move on to further education and training sessions such as ‘Herstory’ introduces some of the women who have played an important part in the struggle for equality in the UK – from Mary Wollstonecraft through Olive Morris and Jayaben Desai and asks the women on the programme to discuss their relationship to the women who have shaped their own lives.

Subsequent days on the programme look at topics such as shame and guilt, power and control, co-dependency and relationships and sex and consent. For many of the women it is the first time they have encountered feminist ideas and the first time they had spoken with other women about these topics.

FfC has made a series of short films with some of the women who have completed the programme. These can be seen at https://www.foundationforchange.org.uk where there are more details about the project.

The mission is to demonstrate that the need to change how to work with care-affected children, and in doing so change the hearts and minds of local authorities and other services to provide the support these girls desperately need to improve their life chances. Not only will this demonstrate what a better model of support should look like, and that it can offer better outcomes, but it can ultimately reduce support required for the same girls as they become adults.  The sessions are designed to create an empowering, inclusive and therapeutic community group. They have been shaped by care leavers, employing therapeutic models such as the Solution Focused Approach to allow for engagement in a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space.

www.sistersystem.org

The books to be included are: A Tragedy of Lives: Women in prison in Zimbabwe; Girls on the Street; The Frontline runs through every Woman: women and local resistance in the Zimbabwean liberation war; Shemurenga: the Zimbabwe women’s movement 1995-2000; Township Girls: the cross-over generation; Masimba (short stories in Shona); and Trapped, a novel that explores the lives of unemployed graduates.

www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com

The project includes:

1. 1. Editing and producing 48 programs of “Lunas y amaneceres”, a weekly program of 30 minutes during the year 2020.
   2. A strategy to disseminate the “Lunas y amaneceres” radio program, as well as the creation of alliances so that it can be broadcasted on other radio stations, social networks and other organisations in the region.
   3. To train a seedbed of 10 young women from the Santander regional of Ruta Pacifíca to become reporters and promoters of radio programs in their communities and organisations.

The aim is to produce inclusive, non-discriminatory content with a gender component, women’s rights, and differential on issues such as violences against women, women and the peace process, women and the transitional integral system in Colombia. The project uses culture as a tool for peace building among others with the aim of reaching a large number of territories and populations of different ages and through that, generate a critical mass in favour of peace and citizenship of women and girls in the audience.

https://rutapacifica.org.co/wp/

Radio program  https://rutapacifica.org.co/wp/lunas-y-amaneceres/

www.fourthreserve.org.uk

In partnership with the Feminist Review Trust, a full-time journalism training workshop will be held for women in the town of Azzaz in Northern Syria. In the workshop for 20-30 days, 10-15 female trainees will undergo training in writing, interviewing, technical skills and production, as well as professional coaching. From the workshop, 7-9 trainees will be selected to advance to a 5-month apprenticeship with the feminist web platform Ayni Aynik (womenofsyria.com). Meaning “my eye is your eye” in Arabic, it is written by and for Syrian women, creating space to process the impact of war on women’s lives, and approaching issues that are taboo in Syrian society. During this stage, trainees will be coached by professional trainers in writing, audio and video editing, and photojournalism to ensure that their work continues to improve in quality and complexity. The platform offers a chance to build a portfolio under real-world working conditions. Upon completion, the women will be ready to enter the job market, or (most commonly) begin their careers as freelance reporters.

The Syrian women journalists will complete the course literate in the language of human rights and have the technical skills and industry knowledge to make women heard. The women will also be connected to ASML/Syria’s wide network of media organizations and former media development partners, with 77% of alumnae already employed in the media sector.

www.asmlsyria.com

• • One leaflet will contain the basic contact details for Women’s Aid Orkney and emergency phone numbers for other services and a QR code for distribution in public places such as GP surveys, shops, local council etc.
  • The other leaflet will be given to women who attend the service, outlining what support can be offered, support workers details and office contact details.

Posters will be produced for display in public places including ferry and airport terminals, pub toilets, colleges and shops to advertise our services and contact details.

Women’s Aid Orkney will purchase two pull up banners for their Children & Young Peoples service for use at conferences, meetings, fundraiser and public awareness session. The banners will raise their profile and publicise their service to both professionals and the general public.

Lip balms will be designed and developed with their phone number disguised in a bar code to give out to the women and children who may be in danger from domestic abuse. These will be issued to the police and health services to give out as required. This way women and children can be given a contact number without it flagging up who they are. This will reduce the risk of a perpetrator finding their phone number and help to provide a safe way to pass on contact details.

Business cards with contact details and a QR code will be produced to be given to both professionals and the public. This will help raise awareness of the help available and how to contact Women’s Aid in Orkney.

www.womensaidorkney.org.uk

Given the importance of accessibility for ensuring activism is inclusive for women with disabilities and to provide a guide for being accessible, ENGKAD will prepare a booklet. This booklet will introduce the crucial points to be taken into account during the organisation and implementation of activities. In addition to internationally defined accessibility standards, this booklet will contain information on what participants from different disability groups (for example, people with physical, visual, hearing, or intellectual disabilities and mental problems) may need, information on how to announce the event and access to participants with disabilities, how to present information in an accessible manner, how to arrange an accessible accommodation and how to ensure that women with disabilities can fully participate in the activity. Therefore, the target audience of this project includes everyone organizing public activities in any field in Turkey and looking for ways to include people with disabilities in their activities. However, in line with ENGKAD’s mission and goals, the booklet will also include information on the issues specific to women with disabilities.

www.engellikadin.org.tr

https://theredproject.co.uk

Queer Archive Storytelling for Transformation: The courageous lives of LBTQ women in BiH aims to make visible LBTQ herstories and narratives in LGBTQI communities, the wider feminist movement and general public of BiH.  Interviews on personal accounts and herstories of LBTQ women in BiH during wartime and/or post-war period will be recorded and published via Queer Archive platform www.kvirarhiv.org. Stories will serve as a tool of self-representation for the participants, as accounts of survival and inspiration for LGBTIQA communities, for inscription of LBTQ narratives within broader historical narratives and for inclusion of LBTQ narratives within women’s and feminist movement – accessible to everyone.

In their research, Tallulah found that despite the difficulties domestic workers faced in their lives and work, they all found ways to take control, exert agency, and be reflexive about what their employment as domestic workers meant about who they were as individuals. Through perspicacity and subversive behaviour, the domestic workers in the research consistently disrupted the typical conceptualisation of domestic workers. While their daily actions may not be seen as headline-grabbing acts of resistance, they are important examples of everyday revolutionary behaviour, examples of which ultimately improve women’s position in society. This resilience and agency deserves attention, to show the intricacies, complexities and ultimately their humanity.  Tallulah is keen to share the results from her research in an accessible, creative and culturally relevant way.

Women have struggled to achieve equal participation in public sectors to end political, social and economic inequalities between the two sexes, however sexual harassment, one form of violence against women, is widely practiced in work places. Higher education institutions in Ethiopia are one of the exemplary working places where sexual harassment is cultured, practiced and prevalent. Female academics are usually victimized by such violence which is often committed by male colleagues. The worst part is that most suffer in silence since it is considered as a culture and men who are often the prime offenders have no idea that their action has an impact on the victims.

The main justification of the team to work on this topic is “Challenging sexual harassment in the workplace: the case of Mekelle University” is that their experience of sexual harassment is encountered every day to the level that they cannot escape or avoid it. Despite considerable awareness of the problem, for too long women academics have suffered in silence, not knowing what to do about it. But now, as a gender equality advocate, the team strongly want to do something. The guiding principle for this project is “If we do not take the action now, who will?”.  The main purpose of the project is therefore through different interventions, to end the sexual harassment and create a violence free academic environment.

The project wants to ignite a rural women’s struggle for environmental justice based on the principles of feminism. In order to do so, a number of key interventions are planned. First, a link will be drawn with the previous struggle to mobilize women struggling for the right to natural resources appropriated by corporations. The momentum will help in catalysing a campaign against environmental pollution. Second, women will be informed of the various types of pollution from various pollutants from the industry and agriculture, and the impacts on their health, on livestock and natural resources such as land and water. Lastly, women will be supported to demand environmental justice. Therefore, the aim of the project is to build on the capacity of a core group of women actors who will carry forward the campaign.

www.roshnisindh.org.pk

Women with Disabilities Development Foundation (WDDF) will implement a grant from Feminist Review Trust to develop and deliver a training programme girls and women with disabilities. This programme will have three elements:

1. 1. Training on Persons with Disabilities Rights and Protection Act
   2. Training on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
   3. Training on CEDAW with a particular focus on rural women

The project will build girls and women with disabilities capacity to get equal citizen rights, reduce discrimination and increase access to public services.

www.wddfbdonline.org

The core of the project is the launch of a “Women’s University” in the neighbourhood so that women can be more politically active in issues that concern them. The curriculum of this university will include topics such as discrimination, gender, communication, living in the city, ecology, violence and fight against violence, citizenship rights, reproductive rights, and access to municipal services. The men, teenagers and the children of the neighbourhood will be included as well to raise general awareness on discrimination, gender, and democratic participation. The project will be run in partnership with the local NGO and their staff will be trained as project coordinators to ensure sustainability when this pilot study is concluded. At the end of the project, Ardic Solidarity Association hope to have instituted a continued awareness on these issues and set up neighbourhood councils where issues especially faced by the women can be shared and discussed to develop solutions for them.

You can follow the project through the news section of their website, which will be published in Turkish and English: www.ardic.org.tr/ardictan-haberler/

www.thefemalegazemagazine.wordpress.com/category/the-play

The event will recall the many ways in which SBS has negotiated a complex socio-political terrain. SBS has achieved an iconic status in activist circles in Britain, not merely for the longevity of its existence but for the ground breaking work it has done in changing the legal, social and political landscape for BAME women (and arguably for all women) facing domestic violence, a racist state and society, and conservative religious and cultural constraints.

www.southallblacksisters.org.uk

The grant from the Feminist Review Trust aims to strengthen feminist leadership in SWEAT through workshops, training sessions and skill sharing.  Specifically the grant will cover the project leadership and travel costs for women attending the sessions.  It is hoped that this project will increase the visibility of sex worker voices in South African feminism.

www.sweat.org.za

Alexandra Kelbert and Natasha Nkonde are particularly interested in documenting the voices of the women and movements marginalised within an already marginal movement. Groups like the East London Black Women’s Organisation (ELBWO) and Abasindi Cooperative which are often relegated to the footnotes of feminist history.

Preliminary findings point to complicated relationships between class, political identification, access to institutional funding and posterity, which we are keen to further explore further.

To construct this fuller picture of anti-racist organising in 1970s-2000s Britain, Alexandra Kelbert and Natasha Nkonde are conducting oral history interviews with women who broadly politically organised within the Black feminist tradition, to ask how they related to political blackness, and explore some of the marginalised stories of women of colour organising.

Working within our experience of recording oral histories and podcasting from previous projects (The GLC Story, Remembering Olive Collective, Stories of Struggle), the researchers are aiming for a minimum of 15 oral history interviews over the span of the project – four of these have already been recorded.

Through documenting new perspectives on political blackness, Alexandra and Natasha hope to reveal further insights into the history of anti-racist and feminist organising, and create new knowledge about the challenges of movement building, necessary to build meaningful solidarity in our movements today.

The meetings raise awareness about mental health and challenge the stigma and discrimination that comes with it.  The group members are encouraged to connect with the people in their local community, to undertake exercise and keep learning by trying something new, rediscovering an old interest or learning new things.

Once the women are confident and have knowledge and support in regards to their mental health, their wellbeing is crucial to the rest of the families in their household as they will be able to identify the signs and symptoms of mental health and access appropriate services. Women will also start socialising, going to groups in the local areas, engaging with their children’s schools and generally being confident to go out and meet others. Some women will hopefully feel empowered and start to volunteer in the community.

www.angelsofhope.co.uk 

Specifically, the Feminist Review Trust grant will fund a community course on Intersectionality. Using inquiry-based, collaborative research, and popular education methods, this course will introduce participants to the concept of intersectionality, its political underpinnings, and its coalitional promise. This is the first time that a course on intersectionality is being offered in Greece (whether in academic institutions or community settings), where social movements are currently struggling to make links between various manifestations of systemic oppression. There is also no published book in Greek on intersectionality, and the outcome of this course will constitute the first such publication.

Following the closure of Souda camp in July 2017, the remaining refugees were transferred to Vial, located over fifteen kilometres outside central Chios. The camp has experienced significant overcrowding and the limited bus service provided by UNHCR has been overwhelmed with demand. As a result, Action for Women saw a significant shift in Centre attendance. In response, they launched the bus service in October 2017 with the goal of extending a safe space on Chios to include a reliable form of transportation. The need for the bus service was unprecedented and represented a significant increase in their monthly operational budget on Chios. The award from the Feminist Review Trust will allow the bus service to operate for a further three months after the initial funding.

www.actionforwomen.ch

The grant from the Feminist Trust Fund will finance an interconnected series of activities: conducting preliminary analysis; elaborating training scenarios; providing training courses; organising a strategy-building activity; issuing a publication/manual; hosting feminist platforms in different cities; setting up pro-choice billboards; producing and distributing pro-choice banners. Based on their experience as Gals4Gals, implementing a holistic approach which combines a series of diverse actions, proves to have the highest impact in the Polish public space.

The project activities will be mainly carried out in Poland, but they will also include groups of feminists from Ireland (Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Ireland and Repeal the 8th), from London (Polish Feminists group) and Brussels (Black Baloons Brussels) in order to reach Polish communities abroad, and feminists from Poland who operate in various parts of Europe.

www.fondacijacure.org

Mainstream economic thinking still does not take account of the lessons of feminist economics. Student awareness of feminist approaches to economics is low and feminist economists and researchers can be isolated, particularly at the early stages of their careers.  In response to this, WBG is establishing a PhD and Early Career Network which aims to identify and support the next generation of feminist economists and policy researchers and establish strong links between them, women’s sector organisations and policymakers through policy discussions, training workshops and mentoring.

The goal is to strengthen the ability of early career feminist researchers to play an active role in public policy debates and to encourage a feminist approach among other researchers. This work supports the long term goal to promote holistic economic models that see gender relations as a structural part of economics in order to contribute to a gender equal society.

www.wbg.org.uk

The name of Chicha Morada makes reference to popular society (“chicha” is a popular and traditional Peruvian drink). “Morada” (purple) is the symbolic colour of feminism internationally.

Chicha Morada will be hosted by two young women and will present and comment on news in a creative and critic way. It will be published in social media, a place that has a large number of young users. They will be the change agents of Peruvian society for the next decades. Humour will be the main tool to give diversity in the representation of women in media. The format will have opinion monologues and humorous sketches. They will be recorded inside and outside the set. It will be uploaded to their channel in YouTube.

Chicha Morada will be supported by Wayka, an independent and non profit media that priorities content on human rights and women rights.  Most of the time, women are considered a decorative element by media with a mercantilist objective.  Wayka questions the high level of concentrated and traditional media in Peru, a situation that promotes a view of the facts with a traditional way for showing news that most of the time uses stereotypes for representing women.

www.wayka.pe

• • to strengthen capacities in scripts writing/rewriting that show themes related to violence against women and problems associated with femininity, while enhancing other forms of writing that are unchecked from traditional ones
  • to train artistic agents (screenwriting women) who impact the Cuban cultural field on issues related to violence against women
  • promote the voices, active participation, leadership and impact of Cuban women screenwriters as professionals in the audiovisual industry, as well as offering tools to achieve sustainable audiovisual projects

Circuito Liqido will contribute to the construction of audiovisual programming, through a laboratory of audiovisual writing with a feminist vision to strengthen the capacities of artistic self-management and to promote active participation, leadership and the impact of women artists as professionals in the audiovisual industry.  At the same time, it will make possible the formation of artistic agents (screenwriting women) in order that they can modify the real barriers that impede women advancing toward the equality of gender within screen writing in Cuba.

www.circuitoliquido.com

‘The Hum In My Heart’ is a new project by Amina Khayyam Dance Company (AKDC), exploring issues of mental health amongst south Asian women particularly from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities in inner cities of Luton, East London, Birmingham and Woking. The Company will provide non-threatening ‘environments’ to encourage women to share experiences. They will have the opportunity to use any artistic form – dance sequences, story tableaux, textile or film/digital work, self authored or made with AKDC’s participation, with their professional performers and storytellers with digital capacity, so that they take the first steps to recognise their mental health status. AKDC will then create building blocks for ‘The Hum in My Heart’, a production aiming to extend reach even more widely and encourage more individuals affected by mental health issues to become involved and generate the momentum for change within their specific communities.

www.aminakhayyamdance.co.uk

Praxis will use this grant towards the employment of an experienced Immigration Adviser who will provide holistic support to migrant women, including those facing destitution and homelessness as a result of the ‘no recourse to public funds’ condition. The lack of free, safe advice means that many migrant women remain trapped in abusive situations, particularly when they are under the impression that leaving an abusive partner may impact on their own immigration status. This programme will offer support with:

• • Immigration issues and making applications (for example, domestic violence concession applications, human rights applications articles 3 and 8 )
  • Leaving abusive situations and reporting abuse to the police
  • Peer group support (for example, access to our regular group work for young migrants and migrant mothers)
  • Advice and support with destitution (for example, hardship grants, support getting fee waivers for immigration applications)
  • Housing and homelessness advice
  • Referrals to further support from statutory and voluntary sector organisations (for example, accessing Section 17 under the Children’s Act 1989, counselling/mental health services, registering with a doctor).

www.praxis.org.uk

Most sex workers are mothers, and sex work has long been a survival strategy for ostracised LGBTIAQ+ people and undocumented migrants. Therefore, sex workers are present in many wider marginalised identities but seldom feel safe coming forward and sharing those experiences due to division sewn by institutions in power and more privileged elements in movements.

The arts are a battleground for healthy representation of all identities. Sex workers find themselves constantly appropriated to sell controversy and sexuality, while being just as easily expendable – left to die at the end to vindicate patriarchal expectations.

Using performance art, theatre, dance, song and hip-hop, the project draws on over 70 stories from 18 countries across 6 continents to devise sex worker-led art, providing honest, complex and empowering narratives of survival against society’s violence and exclusion. Through their inreach workshops, Sex Worker’s Opera will share tools to develop and produce powerful art reclamations to sex workers in the UK.

http://sexworkersopera.com/

www.ywbefrienders.org

www.rji.org.uk

www.redi.org.ar

www.cenppz.org.ba

1. 1. Define and monitor a common strategy to counter the influence of the anti-choice groups
   2. Organise a workshop to develop skills on communication and argumentation against anti-choice discourses.

The project will be implemented in Barcelona, the city where Calala has its main office, but they will also involve organisations from Madrid and others cities to come to Barcelona for the workshop. Calala hope to organise a network with a common strategy.

www.calala.org

The grant from the Feminist Review Trust will support the administration of the collection of oral histories. Through the use of oral testimonies, the project intends to show how marginalization in service responses deters vulnerable women from accessing justice.  A secondary use of the oral testimonies is as an education and information tool to raise public consciousness and show the differences in the nature of violence that confronts each group.  Hopefully the oral testimonies will also encourage and empower women to report cases to DOVVSU as well as FIDA-Ghana’s legal aid centre.  It is anticipated that DOVVSU will improve its documentation of SGBV data to make it more inclusive and take action to provide targeted services to vulnerable women.

www.fidaghana.org

The aim is for the group to become self sustaining after a 12 month set up phase that is run by and for women survivors of domestic abuse.

www.tynesidewomenshealth.org.uk

Africa is one of the biggest suppliers of flowers to the UK. Women, who make up the majority of the flower workforce, are often forced to work overtime, during peak times like Valentine’s Day, making childcare arrangements impossible to arrange and often not being paid the proper overtime rates.  Women frequently have to work on casual contracts, are discouraged from joining unions, work for very low wages and many face sexual harassment in the workplace. Many also suffer from burns, breathing difficulties and loss of sight because they are exposed to pesticides used on the flowers.

With a grant from the Feminist Review Trust, the Flower Power campaign will start at the beginning of February 2017 – before Valentines Day (14 February) – and run for one month. The website www.women-ww.org will have a quiz, pledges, competition, blogs and a video. It will also show who is affected, what the issues are, why the issues are important, where and how people can campaign, and what steps people can take in order to promote equality, reduce consumption and buy ethically and responsibly.

www.themedadproject.org.uk

The goal of Pakasipiti is to challenge pervasive human rights violations targeted against LBT women and to advocate for continued protection, wellness care and support for women who suffer discrimination, stigma, prejudice, torture, and abuse as a direct consequence of their sexuality.

www.pakasipitizimbabwe.wordpress.com

In recent years, the relationship between sound, gender and technology has gained increasing attention. There have been a number of artist networks, archives and educational initiatives established in the hope of tackling the gendered exclusions from and disparities within the technocentric fields of electronic music and audio production. Many of these projects can be understood to share some of the concerns and ideals of cyberfeminism. Emerging in the early 1990s, cyberfeminism sought to explore the potentials and possibilities of technology, computing and cyberspace for feminist praxis.

Sonic Cyberfeminisms will provide an opportunity to critically reflect upon and innovatively contribute to current activism and debates concerning sound, gender and technology, while also drawing attention to the work of women in the fields of electronic music and sound technology; and encouraging women and girls to get involved in these fields.

The funding provided by the Feminist Review Trust will be fund five bursaries. In helping to cover travel, accommodation and childcare costs, these bursaries will allow the participation of women who would not otherwise be able to attend.

http://extrasonicpractice.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk

Edinburgh Direct Aid has been providing support to refugees in Arsal since 2013. EDA volunteers despatch aid donated by the Scottish public, and regularly visit the town to distribute the aid and buy immediate necessities like fuel oil and medicine.  From 2015, EDA has also been implementing a more long term strategy to combat the growing idleness and despair in the town – funding camp schools for the many children missing education, and setting up a training and workshop centre, where short vocational courses impart useful skills, and facilities are available for community activities.

The Feminist Review Trust is funding a women’s workshop in the centre. It provides access to computers, informal knitting groups and a sewing workshop. It is also funding four two-month vocational courses for women in subjects for which there is the greatest demand, and of the most immediate benefit in the community – English language, sewing, literacy, and First Aid.

www.edinburghdirectaid.org

The Support Worker will work closely with Arabic speaking girls aged 12+ to encourage and support them to take part in Young Saheliya activities. This will give the girls an opportunity to mix with others from a wide range of communities, receive support within schools and colleges and identify future employment prospects. Girls will also be supported to take part in creative activities such as dance, music and arts and crafts so they can enjoy themselves and have fun.

www.saheliya.co.uk

www.healthylivingsolutions.org.uk

Breastfeeding is not the responsibility of individual women, but the responsibility of the whole of society. In 2016 there is a Call to Action by breastfeeding organisations for a national breastfeeding strategy. The group will use the grant to contribute to the discussion and be an effective voice at a national level to ensure the issue of how infant feeding and inequalities are linked, and how this affects the lives of the poorest in society (and cost to society), is given a higher profile.

The project will enable volunteers to gain the skills and confidence, as well as the practical means to participate in the discussions and get their opinions heard. Volunteers will be able to attend conferences and participate in meetings of the newly formed All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding and Inequalities.  The award will also be used to increase awareness across Leicester of their work and why this project is needed.

www.mammas.org.uk

During 2014, UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare and Dr. Niveen Rizkalla have conducted a study on mental health of Syrian refugees in Jordanian host-communities and their helpers – professionals working with Syrian refugees at 30 organisations. A preliminary analysis indicates that professionals are buckling under the pressure of coping with refugees’ unmet needs, mental health impacts, as well as an enormous need for supervision, training and education of practical skills, especially in sexual violence topics.

The influx of refugees in Jordan together with a lack of sufficient training and support when coping with complex issues, leaves professionals in a vulnerable and frustrating position with an inability to effectively assist refugees, which eventually harms the refugees.

The award from the Feminist Review Trust will support a training project in Arabic that addresses the specific needs/capacities of senior staff who work at multiple organisations via one month of intensive workshops on best practices for coping with sexual violence of refugees. The project will target the training of senior staff to enable them to train others, and expand the networking within each organisation and across organisations. This working model will boost future independent collaborations, opportunities to maximize resources and the sharing of knowledge, all of which benefit the refugee, local populations and staff.

www.acaa.org.uk

Saffron Records wants to encourage young women to have a voice and offer them a platform to amplify these voices, focusing on musicality, not sexuality. They offer artists mentoring and development on a one to one basis in Bristol. This can include anything from vocal training, to creative writing, to stage presence, to identity and self-promotion. The grant will be used for costs of mentoring and rehearsal hire space.

www.saffronrecords.co.uk

With funding from the Feminist Review Trust, the charity will set up a Survivors’ Support Group for young women who have moved on from the refuge and have settled into their own tenancies in the local area. The group will offer peer support for young women living in the community after they have escaped and recovered from abuse. It will provide ongoing advice on keeping themselves safe, and on housing, education, finance, parenting, self-esteem and any other needs. The group will also encourage young women to take on a mentoring role for new residents when they first come into refuge.

The group will be encouraged to contribute to the national debate on domestic abuse services for younger women via forums and panels. The women are willing to produce short videos for circulation on social media, to talk to commissioners and contribute to future academic studies.

www.crossroadsderbyshire.org

MRANG provides two outreach sessions per week where women and their children get an opportunity to make friends, havea hot meal and access our support services. The outreach team undertakes weekly visits to accommodation centres to engage with women new to the area. MRANG also runs a very popular weekly afterschool club where children get extra support from teachers to help with their homework and women receive English language classes from an ESOL qualified teacher.  The family support team offer a wide variety of crucial support and advocacy services. The Feminist Review Trust award will contribute towards the running costs during 2016.

www.mrang.org.uk

Sindhupalchowk was at the epicentre of the 2015 earthquakes and since then GMSP has been one of the lead local organisations co-ordinating emergency post earthquake aid in the district for both men and women, with a particular emphasis on psycho-social support.

Working with Disabled Human Rights Centre Nepal, GMSP became concerned that disabled women were not fully engaged or included in their mission to empower and support rural women.  GMSP are now working to become thoroughly disability inclusive at every level from the village based self help groups which are at their core, through the whole organisational structure (including staff and board), using the skills and expertise of the Disabled Human Rights Centre to provide disability training and awareness raising.

The Feminist Review Trust’s support will also enable GMSP to set up three disabled women’s self help groups with approximately 12 women in each and to make their office more disability friendly by installing an accessible toilet in their current temporary (post earthquake) offices and funding for other accessibility features.

The award from the Feminist Review Trust will provide for a computer, the set up and use of broadband and a secure data management system – Modus.  It is hoped these tools will enable the service to provide women with better information about available help and support and to refer families more effectively to appropriate agencies for further support

www.nowezyciebezprzemocy.co.uk

With the support of the Feminist Review Trust, WJAR is running a special education programme to improve gender and ethnic equality for one year. In the kindergarden, children are open, full of energy, and wanting to discover themselves and the world. This is the right of children. The staff members at the kindergarden are trained in child care. This includes the psychology of children and families and the support needs of children affected and suffering under the circumstances of war and violence. The training seeks to improve the support of gender and ethnical equality in daily work, how to operate in an intercultural environment and how to support families with problems.

With trained teachers, the quality of the children’s care is growing. For the first time in Syria, children will learn about the different cultures and ethnics of Syria and Rojava.

www.weqfajinaazad.org

ECSAT has offered training for disabled women in a residential home in Galle. However, they have been unable to target the needs of all the women due to minimal resources.  Many women are severely disabled and are locked up in their rooms, with no facilities for visitors or other activities. They have not been to school and have few social skills due to isolation within their own families.

Through continuous research and by word of mouth since 2009, ECSAT has identified 34 vulnerable disabled women in the Galle district who are at risk of being institutionalised.

ECSAT is delivering a project to de- institutionalise the daily life of residents of Bonavista and prevent institutionalisation for disabled women living with families in the Galle community. ECSAT will provide disability rights training, vocational training and social and Life skills training for both residents and women in the community.

www.ecsatlanka.org

This award is for a one day event to bring together young women with role models from these industries to inspire and widen their horizons, encouraging them to consider GCSE subjects, jobs and careers previously viewed as only for suitable for males.  80 female students selected by schools in deprived areas of Newcastle will attend.

The event will focus on the Young Enterprise principle of ‘learning by doing’ and be an active and engaging day, providing information and support to the students through the engagement of local employers.  The students will gain insight and practice the key employability skills that employers are looking for of teamwork, communication, resilience, confidence, initiative, financial capability, organisation and problem solving.  On the day the students will work in teams on group activities, which will challenge them to develop their team working, problem solving, decision making  and presentation skills which are key to working in these sectors.

www.young-enterprise.org.uk