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Cathy McIlwaine

@cathymcilwaine.bsky.social

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Professor of Geography @KCL. Feminism, international development, migration. Latin Americans in London. Creative research in London and Rio de Janeiro. Trustee/council member @LatinElephant @LatAmB

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jan 31

A damning new report. www.nao.org.uk/reports/tack... and www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Epidemic’ of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse – report

National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordination

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VEM Network @vemkcl.bsky.social · Dec 3

📣 Read a powerful book about ways women in Latin America are confronting and resisting forms of intersectional gendered violence

Co-authored by the WRV Collective inc @cathymcilwaine.bsky.social & @jelke.bsky.social in partnership with Latin America Bureau
lab.org.uk/women-resist...

Women Resisting Violence published in Spanish | Latin America Bureau

The collectively-written book Women Resisting Violence, published in English by LAB in 2022, has now been released online in Spanish by Cita Press. This

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Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social · Nov 28

Chaired a great panel on women resisting violence with Carolina Cal & Simone Amorim of Migrants in Action, Marilyn French & @cathymcilwaine.bsky.social

Cathy spoke about their decolonial approach - working with grassroots orgs, not simply 'extracting' their experiences for academic research

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