Month: March 2017
The story of a women-only space at a refugee camp
Vienna-based artist Patricia Gerger writes of her experience volunteering at a refugee camp, where she set up a weekly women-only space.
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by Katelynn E. Carver
Katelynn E. Carver responds to the project question with a piece that is not a poem, not a song, not a picture. Moving, powerful and melodic.
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…in the Life and Works of Maud Sulter (1960-2008)
Celeste-Marie Bernier writes of Maud Sulter, whose photography challenged the historical narratives and exoticization of black women’s bodies.
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Speaking Out/Keeping Silent
Today’s comic by Sasha de Buyl-Pisco illustrates how a dangerous woman is often one who speaks out, though actually there is danger in keeping silent, too.
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Scottish Women Compositors in the Late Nineteenth Century
‘What we do know for sure about the Scottish women typographers of this period is that men saw them as dangerous…’ Robyn Pritzker looks back to the 1800s.
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“I am walking through the world with no breasts, & I don’t care if that makes you uncertain, if you can’t gender me,” declares Sasha Fisher in today’s post.
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Not ‘just’ a housewife
Dagmar Wilson referred to herself as a “mere housewife” but she disrupted political consensus during the Cold War, organising women to strike for peace.
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Short story by Mary Paulson-Ellis
Mary Paulson-Ellis is a writer living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her debut novel, The Other Mrs Walker (Pan Macmillan 2016) was nominated for the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award and has been selected asContinue reading
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Beware!
Mary Barbour – social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.
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