Natasha Walter is a feminist author and campaigner.
Natasha’s new book, Feminism for a World on Fire, is out now.
Natasha is the author of four other books: Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance; Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism and The New Feminism, as well as a novel, A Quiet Life. For all book-related enquiries, please email Zoe.Hood@littlebrown.co.uk
Natasha is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director for 15 years, taking it from a small project to a charity supporting and empowering hundreds of refugee women and campaigning for justice in the asylum process. She is currently chair of the charity Makani, which works with refugee women in the Middle East and the UK, and works on a freelance basis for several other women’s and environmental organisations.
Natasha has worked as a journalist and critic for the Guardian, the Independent and the Observer, and has contributed to many arts and political programmes on radio and television, including Channel 4 News, BBC Breakfast and BBC Woman’s Hour. For journalism enquiries, please email contact@natashawalter.co.uk
Natasha has spoken at dozens of varied events, including the Women’s March in London and the End Sexual Violence in Conflict conference, given lectures at Cambridge University, and chaired panels at academic and political conferences. If you are interested in booking Natasha for an event in 2026, please email Zoe.Hood@littlebrown.co.uk
Natasha was a Junior Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in 1989 and the Humanitas Visiting Professor of Women’s Rights at Cambridge University in 2015. She is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London.
Recent media:
Interviews with Natasha:
Natasha Walter on feminism in a world on fire, The Guardian, May 2026
Natasha Walter on crossing borders and humanism, The New Humanist, 2024
Print:
The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger, The Guardian (comment). 22 January 2026
Woman, Life, Freedom: how the women of North East Syria built a new world, The Observer (feature), 9 February 2025
Protest at your peril, The Observer (feature), February 2023
Audio:
BBC Start the Week, April 2026
BBC Woman’s Hour, August 2023
The Shift with Sam Baker, September 2023
Video:
The Eco-crisis is a feminist crisis, with Rachel Donald, Planet Critical, 2026
Why the climate crisis is a crisis for women, with Helen Pankhurst, Chantelle Lunt and others, 2023
BBC Breakfast, on refugee women in detention, 2020