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Feminist campaigns, community building & home of Brighton's Sisters Salon (women-only) Click on our link tree 👇👇👇👇Free Creche I Free travel for NRPF 🫶 Link Tree https://linktr.ee/SistersSalonBrighton
We know #IWD is about more than just slogans- it's about actions
Want to know what we have been up to?.... we look forward to hosting our AGM this afternoon ♥️
Visit our link to take feminist actions for women & girls
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Photo of Frances Perkins being sworn in, with a strong beam of light highlighting her. The rest of the people in the room are men.
#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.
She was a workers-rights activist, a key builder of the New Deal, and was in FDR's cabinet throughout his Presidency.
#WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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Email chains. WhatsApp groups. Private jets. Web forums. This is what men say when we are not in the room. This is what they do. And the scale is staggering.
BOOK:
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studio photo of Bette Davis wearing a white shirt, short dark tie and jacket. She is a white woman with light hair.
#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood 🗃️
Women (& girls) across Brighton tell us again & again that single-sex spaces are life saving & necessary to heal after sexual trauma.
This is not a myth & the basis by which we lawfully run a popular women-only organisation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Concerns raised over alternatives to #Brighton day centre threatened with closure #LDreporter
www.hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit...
staged press photo of Constance Baker Motley entering her office as President of the Borough of Manhattan. She is a Black woman.
#OnThisDay, 23 Feb 1965, Constance Baker Motley is elected Manhattan Borough President, the first woman to hold the office. She had been a state senator, and would go on to be a federal judge.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
How can women in Brighton and Hove support their sisters in Iran?
Click for information & actions 👇
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Medalists in misogyny.
"We’re gonna have to bring the women’s team, you do know that”, to which the players laugh."
#NotAllMen #IsItTho?
www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...
TAKE ACTION TODAY WITH THE WOMEN OF ROJAVA
Action 1: Write to your MP
Action 2: Donate to TOV Kurdish Aid
Action 3: Join with local solidarity initiatives like @BrightonKurdSol
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/rojava/
For too long maternity pay for teachers has been too poor.
Today our Labour government is taking a first step towards changing that — doubling the number of weeks at full pay.
With Labour, change is coming for school staff.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/teac...
Virginia Giuffre gave a list of 40 men to the FBI over a decade ago.
The DoJ hosts evidence of crimes on its own website.
Time & time again trafficking & rape is reported to the authorities & no action is taken.
www.instagram.com/reel/DU5WX9b...
Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said the arrest sends “an important message that nobody is above the law, irrespective of your wealth, your connections – even if you’re royalty”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
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SIGN THE PETITION TO ENSURE
CHILD MAINTENANCE SERVICE SAFEGUARDS PREVENT FINANCIAL ABUSE & COERCIVE CONTROL
✍️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
For more actions to #FixTheCMS see our webpage
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Desi Hayward, 33, of Falmer Road in Brighton, was arrested on suspicion of stalking involving fear of violence.
He was further arrested on two counts of possession of an offensive weapon in a private place after two bladed weapons were found.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2586000...
Saturday 7th March
International Women's Day
Hear from Shahed Ezaydi, Kaia Allen-Bevam, Yasmeen Jabri & Alia Alzougbi
Book for Iftaar meal:
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#WeAreStillHere #IWD #Brighton
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TXT 07985 245 207 #IWD
I do hope women get to have more of a say at the top level but as a Labour Party member I have repeatedly seen promises of this and it never happens. Misogyny runs deep in the Labour Party.
Show REAL LOVE today & use our website to take actions for women & girls
#HappyGalentine #Valentines
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#HappyGalentine women!
For our upcoming women-only events, see our link in our bio ♥️
newspaper clipping headed "three more suffragettes released from Holloway gaol yesterday" above photos of five women (the three released and two of the women greeting them)
#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.
The picture shows their release the next day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
Witchcraft, women & feminism....
Get your tickets here 🫶👇
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A policeman appears to have a woman in an armlock as they move through a crowd.
#OnThisDay, 12 Feb 1983, around 200 to 300 women protested the Law of Evidence in Lahore. The law effectively made women’s testimonies worth half that of men’s.
The police used tear-gas and batons before arresting 50 of the protestors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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Racists gathered in Brighton city centre intimidating members of the public & refugees.
Fuelled by racist, dehumanising false narratives, half truths & outright lies.
Have you been duped by their fake news?
Take the quiz:
act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/185854/...
“Violence against women & girls is perpetrated by men of all backgrounds- the vast majority of rapes are perpetrated by someone known to the victim."
Co opting inaccurate & racist anti-migration rhetoric hurts all women, especially Black & brown women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Right at the end of this Guardian piece. So why wasn't she involved or asked?
"We need to be honest about the fact that if women like Jess Phillips had been in that room when the decision was taken, Peter Mandelson would never have been sent to Washington.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Brighton's number one feminist discussion group!
This month we talk about the Darlington nurses, their case & what this means for women.
Book here (including free Creche)
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DISCO DIVAS 🪩
Raise money for RISE Brighton's life saving domestic abuse charity ♥️
Tickets: exeterstreethall.org/event/silent...
In January, the "Darlington Nurses" won a landmark employment tribunal case against Durham & Darlington NHS
Their case? To uphold their right to be provided with single-sex changing facilities at work.
Join us this Feb to discuss all things Darlington!
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"Anyone who recognises the man is urged to come forward and report information to us.”
Information can be reported to Sussex Police online or by calling 101 and quoting serial 273 of 17/12.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2576171...
