The history of the violence against women sector in Scotland
The history of the women's movement in Scotland is an inspiring one, but it is easy to become disillusioned when as frontline workers you...
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frontlinefeminists
- Nov 29, 2021
- 4 min
Rape is not a woman’s crime, that is why women need single sex spaces.
Rape is not a woman’s crime. This a statement that you could be forgiven for thinking is obvious. In Scot’s law rape can only be...
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frontlinefeminists
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
10 ways to discuss women’s right to safety
Grow skin at least 10 inches thick. Spend at least 1000 hours collating every piece of information you can find on single sex services,...
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frontlinefeminists
- Oct 19, 2021
- 9 min
It takes a village to protect a rapist
There’s a saying that’s generally cited as being an old African proverb – “It takes a village to raise a child”. It means that everyone...
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frontlinefeminists
- Sep 18, 2021
- 3 min
#HerWordsAreValid
What makes an opinion valid? Many Women in Scotland have been asking themselves that question since the First Minister dismissed as "not...
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frontlinefeminists
- Aug 19, 2021
- 7 min
Why we need a council ‘Zero License’ policy for sexual entertainment venues in Glasgow
“People who loudly advocate that sex work is real work so it should be decriminalised or legalised completely, say it is the stigma of...
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frontlinefeminists
- Aug 18, 2021
- 4 min
Men have the options and make the choices
It is always painful the watch to slow demise of a once principled and liberating movement. We have had many examples over the past 20...
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frontlinefeminists
- Aug 14, 2021
- 3 min
The cuts are a feminist issue
Even before we have moved beyond the direct impacts of the pandemic, it appears that working class communities are paying the price for...
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frontlinefeminists
- Jul 25, 2021
- 1 min
Know your enemies
There you sit, all covered in gold, Pretending to be brass. So uncomfortable with the privilege you have that you would steal the...
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frontlinefeminists
- Jul 6, 2021
- 2 min
Women's Voices Matter
Frontline Feminists Scotland has become aware that some of those women in positions of power and responsibility to represent the needs of...
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frontlinefeminists
- Jun 26, 2021
- 5 min
Opting out of womanhood isn’t the answer
“How can someone be a woman without being born with the female anatomy? I am only a woman because I was born female. With organs...
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frontlinefeminists
- Jun 23, 2021
- 6 min
Will The Real Fawcett Society Please Stand Up?
Some advice for fence-sitters: hop on a plane to Kansas, find yourself a fierce cyclone to catapult you into a strange land. Collect some...
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frontlinefeminists
- Jun 9, 2021
- 8 min
Marion Millar’s predicament inspired me to speak up. And you should, too.
‘Transwomen are women’ has become the virtue signal of the last few years. On the surface, it sounds exactly as a lot of the people who...
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frontlinefeminists
- Jun 4, 2021
- 4 min
Invisible Misogyny
The wealth of legislation to protect women from violence, the increase in rights in the workplace and increased recognition of women’s...
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frontlinefeminists
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
We are!
We are mothers daughters sisters aunties grannies great grannies. God mothers, god daughters, goddesses. We are the wee wummin sitting...
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frontlinefeminists
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Hey Jean!
Hey Jean yer mans a Bam!! Och he cannae help it he just gets frustrated sometimes. Hey Jean yer mans a Bam!! Och ah shouldnae wind him up...
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frontlinefeminists
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
#ISupportWomensAid
I am a survivor of living with domestic abuse as a child. Before I was born the impact of my fathers abuse was being meted out on my...
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frontlinefeminists
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
Women’s Voices Matter
Finding ways to encourage and support women to tell their stories is a thread that’s run through my life. Listening and learning from...
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