Month: December 2016
Michelle Frost writes about her friend who, after years of prolific writing, received death threats and was forced to stop sharing her work online.
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Writer Jan Carson talks about Flannery O’Connor, who was an inspiration to her when she needed it most. Read this personal, entrancing biography.
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Michelle Collins’ short story looks at a dark period of local history in a Melbourne suburb, to a time when a woman committed serial infanticide.
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When Grace Gelder decided to make vows to herself in an act of self-marriage, it was hard to anticipate that it would go viral, or be perceived a dangerous act.
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Welcoming her back
Through interdisciplinary visual art, poetry and an essay, Elif Sezen introduces us to Camille Claudel, a sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Lumina Sophie dite Surprise
Vanessa Lee writes about Lumina Sophie dite Surprise, a woman whose spark ignited others in the 19th century French West Indies.
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Shazea Quraishi writes two poems on Egon Schiele’s portraits of his sister. ‘Sneering Woman’ is pictured here – read on and find out more.
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Ru Raynor shares her journey into environmental activism, issuing a call to arms that challenges consumerism and capitalism.
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The New Woman Discourses of the Fin de Siècle
Laurie Garrison writes about lesbians depicted in New Woman writing, and how the perspective on women loving women changed throughout this stand of writing.
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