Rebel Justice

Send us Fan Mail In this second part of our refugee series, host Trystan speaks to Abdulwahab Tahhan, a Syrian refugee who's since moved to Hong Kong where he is now a lecturer, academic, journalist, stand up comedian and host of the podcast Integrate That. Integrate That is a podcast that aims to challenge some of the media narratives by centering refugee voices telling their story themselve...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of our series exploring the challenges facing refugees, our host Alex speaks with Debora Kayembe - human rights lawyer, political activist, and the first black woman to ever become Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Debora was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she started her life of activism fighting for human rights with Toges Noires, then...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Moore is a serious fighter for justice for the underdog. He’s acted on some of the most high profile appeal cases and won them.  Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

Send us Fan Mail In the week when COP 27 and the reality of the climate crisis hits home, Trystan Kent speaks with Sarah Webb, a climate justice activist who went to prison for peaceful non violent protest. TW: This episode contains profanity and state endorsed violence against women in prison including graphic descriptions of pain inducement for restraint.  Sarah has been engaging in civil disobe...

Send us Fan Mail What do we do with people who commit the worst offences? Should they be allowed to be rehabilitated and forgiven, given a second chance to reintegrate and become productive members of society?  Should they be shunned forever and thrown on the human garbage heap reserved specially for women who commit serious crimes? This week Alexandra Enuc our host speaks with Eleni Psillakis in...

Send us Fan Mail This week,  our presenter Iulia is speaking to two ex-prison officers who've written a dark comedy about their experiences. Harriet and Ella signed up to a graduate scheme become front-line workers in a men's prison and women's prison respectively, and emerged hardened and, in their words, 'brutalised'. Their play, Cell Outs , navigates the dissonance betw...

Send us Fan Mail In this Rebel Justice Podcast our host Trystan Kent speaks with Andrew Morris , former IPP inmate and vocal campaigner against injustices. Andrew sheds light onto the outrageous realities of IPP, and brings his experiences and insight into says we could reform the criminal justice system,  within prisons and wider national reform.  Andrew Morris is the co-founder of the Taking the...

Send us Fan Mail This week we bring you Zoe Cohen, a self employed mum who has had a successful coaching career and was previously a senior manager in the NHS. Zoe was one of 51 people who broke an injunction which protects the fossil fuel industry, and was remanded for contempt of court.   All these people are in ongoing civil resistance as part of the Just Stop Oil campaign, whose simple demand...

Send us Fan Mail Monday 10 October 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the International End the Death Penalty Day. We speak to theatre director Claire Parker and actress Edie Campbell  about Apples in Winter, by Jennifer Fawcett  - a one woman play  premiering in London this week at  Playground Theatre in West London. This award winning play gives a voice to the mother of a violent offender who is...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we bring you personal perspectives on  recent gender violence issues in China from the curators' team of the  #MeToo in China exhibition in the UK, a group of young artists who advocate for Chinese women's justice and rights, narrating the stories of sexual violence survivors and feminists from different social backgrounds in China.  Additional information for...

Send us Fan Mail This week we bring you someone at the  forefront of talk therapy for the most disenfranchised communities in Ireland: Jimmy Judge. Jimmy started in the 80s as an addiction counsellor. He then went on to work with the Traveller Community and specialises in trauma counselling and also identifying abuse in institutional settings, and in relationships where it would be easy to exploit...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, one of the founders of The View, Farah Damji, speaks with Siyanda, who was released from prison recently, about her experiences inside, what she learned and what kept her going.  A few weeks ago we brought you an important podcast with Camilla, Siyanda's mother and the force behind the Free Siyanda campaign. Camilla believes her 22 year old daughter who wa...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, our host Madalena Alberto meets feminist activist, writer and musician Janey Starling, who is responsible for strategy and campaigns at the UK gender justice organisation We Level Up. Janey produced the first UK media guidelines on reporting domestic abuse deaths, backed by all UK press regulators, and regularly does training in newsrooms on this subject. She i...

Send us Fan Mail Free Siyanda - Camilla's fight to clear her daughter Siyanda's name In today’s episode, our intrepid law student Narince Erkan from Durham University speaks to Camilla, Siyanda's mother, about the Free Siyanda campaign to clear her daughter's name in what she perceives to be a miscarriage of justice.  Camilla tells The View how two white males and one female ra...

Send us Fan Mail This week we bring you Sarah Maile, a teacher at Sandbach Highschool and creator of Sandbach Feminists. The Sandbach Feminisits are a group at Sandbach Highschool fighting to urge the UK government to make it illegal for school uniforms to be sold in sex shops and used in pornography. They are fighting for this to end the sexualization of children, considering all children in the...

Send us Fan Mail This week we bring Margaret Meehan O'Brian, aka Moonqueen, a qualified Intuitive Healer and Spiritual Teacher, who works with women who have suffered from domestic abuse. Margaret shares how she came about her healing practices and the benefits they can have for women who have lived through trauma.  You can learn more about upcoming workshops and contacts on moonqueenhealing....

Send us Fan Mail This week Oliver Freiberg meets  crisis journalist,  activist and campaigner Samantha Asumadu where they talk about activism, what inspired her, and her recent nomination to the long list of the prestigious Paul Foot Award, for investigative journalism. The View magazine is the only platform by and for women in the  justice system. Every week we  look at the flaws in the current s...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we present some excerpts from our Women vs The State live talk that took place at the Photo North Festival in Manchester in the first week of May 2022. In the panel, we had the pleasure of hearing from Gail Hadfield Grainger, whose partner was unlawfully murdered in an extra-judicial killing by Greater Manchester Police, Mags McNally, her law partner, their cli...

Send us Fan Mail This week we bring you Fran Fattore. Fran is one of the women photographed by Gavin Smith  for The View’s Someone’s Daughter campaign. Our Someone’s Daughter Campaign consists of women in the justice system who have been affected through committing crimes, as victims or activists or by practising as judges or barristers. Seventeen portraits from our Someone’s Daughter Exhibition a...

Send us Fan Mail Today we bring you a profile of photographer Peter Dench. Peter is also a presenter writer, author, educator and curator and has over 20 years of experience in the advertising, editorial, corporate and portraiture fields of image making. He has received many international accolades and published solo books with his work, while also running the Photo North Festival, this year in ce...

Send us Fan Mail Today we bring you a profile of a photographer who shares about their work and the way that they view the world through the lens. Zula Rabikowska is a polish photographer and videographer based between London and Krakow. Zula was born in Poland but she grew up in the Uk and her practice is influenced by her experience in migration. In her work she explores themes of displacement a...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are honoured to bring you Roy Tyson, an artist and founder of Roy’s Art fair, which is taking place from 7th to the 10th of April (2022) at Truman Brewery, Brick Lane. We are delighted to be taking part of the Fair as The View, with a stand of art by and for women in the justice system, where we will share their poignant stories, why and how they have turned to art, a...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode we’ll continue talking about how governments oppress women who speak out, and how the current criminal system can be extremely flawed towards women. Today’s panel include Alba Duque, a Spanish artist and photographer who mainly works in woman subjects; David Shaw, a lawyer from Instalaw who specialises in civil actions against public authorities, and Shivalee Pa...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode we’ll be talking about how governments oppress women who speak out, and how the current criminal system can be extremely flawed towards women. Today’s panel include Alba Duque, a Spanish artist and photographer who mainly works in woman subjects; David Shaw, a lawyer from Instalaw who specialises in civil actions against public authorities, and Shivalee Patel, a...

Send us Fan Mail This is a special podcast to celebrate International Women’s Day, where we honour the 750 000 incarcerated women across the globe and call on our  governments for rapid decarceration of women in prison for non violent crimes. The theme for 2022 is #breakthebias and we have the perfect guest - Judge Shannon Frison. Judge Frison sits in the Massachussets Superior Court and has had q...