Every Wednesday for the past month, from 10:30am to 3:00pm, five women have been meeting in a training room behind St Leonard's Shoreditch Church, London, to discuss feminist history, sociology and cultural theory. They differ in race, sexual orientation and upbringing, but they have one cause in common: they're all recovering from drug and alcohol abuse. These are the participants of Feminism for Change, a new female-only program designed to provide women with a safe space to explore the ways gender structures and expectations have influenced themselves and their relationships. Sitting in a training room at the offices of Foundation for Change, the local drug charity running the course, two participants told VICE Impact how learning about feminism has already dramatically reshaped their perspectives in four short sessions. They had just come out of their weekly meeting, where they discussed sex, love, and friendship with their three facilitators.

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