Month: October 2016
Did you know less than 15% of Wikipedia’s regular editors are women? Melissa Highton highlights the importance of more ‘dangerous women’ getting involved.
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The Enduring Legacy of the Original Dangerous Woman
Katie Scott-Marshall explores the enduring legacy of ‘the original dangerous woman’, from art and literature to contemporary pop culture.
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Today is the anniversary of the tragic death of Linda Norgrove. Here, Hazel Hall and Lorna Norgove reflect on the dangers of Linda’s work, and how she challenged the traditional gender roles in Afghan society.
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What does it mean to be a dangerous woman? Depending on the time and the place, it could be the act of riding a bicycle, explains Lena Wånggren.
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For UK National Poetry Day, we feature a poem and reflection from Maddie Godfrey on body building, taking up space and being ‘difficult to love’.
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She, the Emperor
Chiew-Siah Tei takes us back to the Tang Dynasty, when a woman would rise from lowly concubine to the first and only female emperor in China.
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Jo Clifford wonders at how dangerous she is perceived to be, particularly in response to her writing and performing a play which imagines Jesus coming back to earth in the present day as a trans woman.
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to be genre-bending is to be dangerous
‘To be genre bending is to be dangerous’. Today, we hear from Elizabeth Reeder on women and essaying.
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Charlie Rawson is a movement artist-researcher based in Bristol. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and a BA (Hons) in Geography and International Relations. Working between bodies and space, her practise looks atContinue reading
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