Month: November 2016
‘The day she got married, along with a husband she acquired an official right to the colour Red.’ Sujana Upadhyay shows how a colour alone can be dangerous.
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Writer Hélène Cixous was revolutionary in her efforts to talk about ‘dangerous’ subject matters, as Raquelle K. Bostow explains.
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Jonatha Kottler reflects on encountering, at different stages of life, the figure of Guinevere in popular culture.
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A short story by Nkateko Masinga
In Nkateko Masinga’s short story, she presents her version of a dangerous woman: an ordinary woman who has been pushed too far.
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What a way to make a living
Laura Clay pays tribute to Dolly Parton – ‘an early feminist pioneer, in a stuffy, set-in-its-ways country music industry’.
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Lucy Flannery writes of one of the bravest, strongest and toughest women of the twelfth century – the Empress Matilda, Lady of the English.
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Breaking the Mould
Breaking the mould, Mary Kingsley posed a threat to those whose status and reputation rested on the pillars of Victorian imperialism.
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‘Sometimes you have to break certain traditions and laws’: a pioneer in intercultural ministry
Today, Janet Lees honours the memory of Madge Saunders, a pioneer in intercultural church ministry.
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Dangerous identities, dangerous ideas?
Liga Strangelove is a Dominatrix. Here, she explores what that means when you also identify as a radically intersectional Marxist feminist–a dangerous idea?
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