Mums Against Austerity

In Britain today, women are paying the price for nearly a decade of austerity. Thanks to a global recession and a faltering economy, we’ve seen cuts to domestic violence centers and rising homelessness, and more women find that the justice system does not serve them in protecting their families from evictions or deportations. It did not have to be this way: austerity was a political choice, and one that both Conservatives and Labour must shoulder the blame for. Women subjected to austerity are pushed to the margins of mainstream media conversations about feminism. But those at the margins have been pushing back, and grassroots women’s groups have begun to fight—not by voting for parties that have shown little interest in them—but by taking up space, and refusing to budge.