About

Swansea Bay Resisters is a local women’s rights group in the Swansea Bay area that provides a platform for action, influence, awareness raising and campaigning at a local level.

ALL women are welcome, especially women who are traditionally excluded, silenced or voiceless including women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled women and lesbian or bisexual women.

By women, we mean biological females who embrace being female. This definition underpins all our work.

Our aims and objectives

AIMS

  1. To raise awareness of issues affecting women’s rights in our area
  2. To signpost individuals and organisations looking for information and support around issues affecting women
  3. To be a group focusing on action and influence
  4. To be a coordination point for individuals and other groups
  5. To have a local focus (Swansea Bay area) on our work
  6. To challenge misogyny, patriarchy and sex inequality in all its forms
  7. To encourage diversity within the Group

OBJECTIVES

  1. Providing women with a safe and inclusive women-only space
  2. Promoting feminist, women-centred action and participation
  3. Participating in local community events where we can communicate with the public, such as street stalls or fayres
  4. Communicating and engaging with local councils in the Swansea Bay region to ensure women’s health, wellbeing and safety are not being overlooked or erased and ensuring
    legislation such as the Equality Act 2010 is being correctly interpreted
  5. Engaging with Swansea Bay Health Board to ensure women are central to their policies and work and that health outcomes for women are not being undermined or made worse
  6. Focusing on schools and young people, especially girls to ensure they have the correct information to know their rights
  7. Engaging with local schools to ensure they are adhering to correct equalities legislation and that girls’ health, wellbeing and safety is being prioritised
  8. Engaging with local universities and colleges of further education to oppose and challenge sexism, ensure freedom of speech, ensure correct equalities legislation is
    being used and the rights of female students and employees are being upheld