Month: January 2017
The most profitable movie released by Universal Pictures in 1916 was a film on birth control and abortion, written and directed by a woman. Who was she?
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“Yoga – and particularly the women of yoga – have shown me that to live dangerously is to be vulnerable, to open yourself up to exploring, to take risks…”
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A short story
What if you believed your sexuality was dangerous? Literally dangerous? Hannah Simpson’s short story asks this very question.
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“…we become dangerous women when we no longer carry a child.”
“We become dangerous women when we no longer carry a child”: today’s post explores the difficult silence surrounding early pregnancy and miscarriage.
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Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
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Poet A C Clarke examines the life of a rebel: Margery Kempe. Find out more about what made her dangerous to the status quo of medieval society.
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Helen Boden writes about artist Joan Eardley, in a biography and a poem collaging the artist’s work, interests, method and life.
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Kate Lewis Hood writes about inspiring women leading the charge for environmentalism, and the dangers they face along their path.
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300 posts… only 65 to go!
We can’t believe we’ve reached 300 posts already! Catch up on the last 50 posts in this round-up post, featuring truths, witches, explorers, and lots more.
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