Month: December 2016
Yewande Omotoso writes about dangerous women in her family: her mother, her grandmother, her aunts, and, perhaps, herself.
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Comic by Maria Stoian
Award-winning artist Maria Stoian contributes another comic, this time on women writing online and the backlash they face for expressing an opinion.
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A short story by Rebecca Vedavathy
Rebecca Vedavathy writes a haunting short story about a woman who is put in a complex situation, and the transformation she undergoes.
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For two decades, Lydia Cacho, a Mexican author of 12 books and a women’s rights activist, has been persecuted for her investigative journalism.
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“A Woman’s Place is in Antarctica”
Listen to these fascinating audio recordings of geologist Janet Thomson, the BAS’s first female scientist allowed to work in the Antarctic.
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A poem by Irene Hossack
Poet and Creative Writing teacher Irene Hossack responds to the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death with her poem ‘Obituary’
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Lilian Lenton
“Whenever I see an empty house I burn it.” (Lilian Lenton, quoted in Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes, ed. by Joyce Marlow)
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Dangerous ‘Chick Lit’
“My favourite dangerous woman in the ancient world is Thecla. Thecla is quite a gal – part Xena warrior princess, part Saint, dispensing alms to the poor.”
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Planting, growing, and garden politics.
“On day one of my new allotment, my whole allotment, the allotment that was mine, Jimmy appeared.” Alison Swanson on planting, growing, and garden politics.
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