Solidarity.

We work in partnership with a range of black and minoritised-led women’s organisations and others to build our shared power to challenge injustice.

Our Core Networks

The Resist Network

The Resist Network is central to the work of Project Resist. It includes the following organisations: Angelou Centre, Apna Haq, Humraaz, Hull Sisters, Project Resist, Rochdale Women’s Welfare Association (RWWA), Saheli, Sangini, Safety 4 Sisters and Ubuntu Women Shelter.

These ten independent, grassroots organisations directly support women and children in the North West, Yorkshire, North East and South Scottish regions. They also work within a national remit due to their strategic advocacy, policy and campaigning work and the provision of specialist refuges, shelters and safe accommodation services.

The network was set up with the purpose of building connections and strengthening political activism, resilience and solidarity among black and minoritised women led organisations. Our focus is on providing support to some of the most economically and socially excluded black, minority and migrant women who also face some of the most heightened forms of racism and patriarchal control.

Feminist Dissent

Project Resist co-directors have a long history of challenging all forms of religious coercion and fundamentalism in the UK. Using legal advocacy and campaigning tools that range from undertaking protests to initiating legal interventions and participating in inquiries and reviews, we have challenged ultra conservative and religious fundamentalist forces that use religion to pursue their own regressive political goals and to control women. These forces have become emboldened by growing state accommodation of minority religious identities to push for demands for religious freedom but instead shore up profoundly patriarchal, discriminatory and anti-democratic structures that stifle feminist and progressive voices of dissent. It is no accident that religious fundamentalist forces have particularly targeted education and family law as key battlegrounds thus bringing them into direct conflict with feminist demands for bodily and intellectual autonomy.

Our co-directors are members of Feminist Dissent, an online journal dedicated to challenging religious fundamentalist movements worldwide and their impact on the rights of women. Formed in 2016 to continue the work of Women Against Fundamentalism, it aims are to analyse how religious fundamentalism as a political movement plays out in different and often interrelated socio-economic and political contexts of racism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism and patriarchy. It provides an important space for developing an understanding of the nature of the multi-directional assault on women's rights and to think through how we develop multi-directional forms of resistance and build alliances and solidarity based on the values of feminism, equality, anti-racism, secularism and universal human rights.

You can read about the work of Feminist Dissent here.

Women’s Liberation Alliance

WLA is a progressive coalition of women and women’s organisations from diverse backgrounds focused on rebuilding and sustaining a women’s liberation movement.