Peris Thuo and Nina Parker have some very exciting news. They are set to present a weekly radio show on the upcoming radio station Byline Radio ! So have a listen to their first show where they discuss the news of today through the Feminist Lens!  Please rate, review and Subscribe! And let us know what you would like to hear and discuss, we want to hear from you and we want you on our show! Get in touch at womenforwanawake@gmail.com  ..read more

Join Peris Thuo and Nina Park interview the incredible Gloria Onitiri about her career, racism in the UK, and some words of wisdom and lasting hope. You would have seen Gloria at the in The Taming of the Shrew as Katherine and also as Guardiano in Women Beware Women, Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic, as one of the Fates in Hadestown at the National, Yomi in Chiaroscuro at The Bush, Nala in Disney’s The Lion King, Rachel Marron in the original cast of The Bodyguard and much more. Gloria is also the Founder of Letter to a Black girl Podcast. Which is a podcast full ..read more

Hello everyone! Welcome to this weeks episode of the Feminist Lens podcast with Nina de Ayala Parker and Peris Thuo! Today we are joined by Carmel McConnell MBE, author and campaigner, who campaigns on child poverty, education and well-being. Carmel is the Founder of the children’s charity Magic Breakfast. You may remember or know of Magic Breakfast when they collaborated with Macus Rashford and Jack Monroe on the free school meals campaign which ended in the Government’s U-turn on school meal vouchers during the christmas holidays of 2020. Or you may know magic breakfast in their own right as ..read more

Hello Everyone and Welcome to the Feminist Lens podcast, brought to you by Women for Wanawake. On today’s episode Nina Parker and Peris Thuo will be speaking to Kerry Abel, Chair of Abortion Rights UK. Which is the national member-led pro-choice campaign. Who campaign to defend and extend women’s rights and access to safe, free, legal, and local abortion. They oppose any rollback of the legisilation and restrictions to abortion access. It’s more than 50 years since abortion was made legal in Britain and we think women’s rights should be advanced not driven back. A consistent three-quarters of ..read more

Helen Pankhurst CBE...Need we say more? Yes we shall! For the last episode of Season 1, join Nina de Ayala Parker and Peris Thuo in conversation with the incredible, kind and devoted Helen Pankhurst.  Helen Pankhurst is a women’s rights, an international development practitioner working mainly in Ethiopia for CARE International and a Trustee of ActionAid, a Professor at MMU and the Chancellor of the University of Suffolk. Helen is the convenor of the Centenary Action Group and of GM4Women 2028 and is the granddaughter of Sylvia, great granddaughter of Emmeline&nbs ..read more

Today we will be speaking to an incredible woman, she is a photographer, activist, and founder of the podcast Cheer Up Luv, Eliza Hatch. Eliza has created and supported a network of women and girls who are fighting to end sexual harassment by retelling very powerful and often emotional stories of sexual harassment on her podcast, and on her social platforms. As we know sexual harassment is in many ways a epidemic across the world, and ever since the term was coined in America in the 70s, women have been able to report it with greater ease, but still, not enough is being done to stamp it out. H ..read more

Today we will be speaking to two incredible guests who are here to represent and in their own right and expertise the Global ‘Gender and Covid19 Working Group’, which brings together academics from around the world, who conduct real time gender analysis to identify and document the gendered dynamics of COVID-19 and gaps in preparedness and response. Wow, this is possibly the most relevant interview and one which we are super, super excited about. There has been a lot of misinformation and nervousness around covid’s impact on women from care, to treatment, to humanitarian intervention, to covid ..read more

This episode is split into two parts. It is a bit different to our usual in that we are speaking to Men. We believe that to realise and achieve full Gender equality women must engage with and work with men. We believe that men can indeed be feminists, and that right now more than ever before we need more men championing women’s rights. We simply cannot leave men out of the conversation if we are to achieve gender equality. On that note, we are glad to have two male guests who are progressive, represent hope and see Women as equals. In addition to being forces in their fields and contributing t ..read more

This episode is split into two parts. It is a bit different to our usual in that we are speaking to Men. We believe that to realise and achieve full Gender equality women must engage with and work with men. We believe that men can indeed be feminists, and that right now more than ever before we need more men championing women’s rights. We simply cannot leave men out of the conversation if we are to achieve gender equality. On that note, we are glad to have two male guests who are progressive, represent hope and see Women as equals. In addition to being forces in their fields and contributing t ..read more

Let's Change the Narrative through Journalism! Join Peris, Nina and Nicola Gill a journalist, copywriter, editor, content consultant, and Mum. Who began her career working with local newspapers, then moved to Fleet Street to senior features writer at Cosmopolitan - Nicola's career spans exciting and changing times in journalism.   Are you a journalist? Do you want to be one - we hope you feel enriched and inspired by this episode to start or simply understand how journalism has changed throughout the decades.  You can connect with Nicola on LinkedIn  Send us a line, if you would ..read more