Arts & Creativity
Stay tuned for original creative work inspired by ‘dangerous women’, including:
- The first woman in England to demand a divorce
- William Wordsworth’s inspiring sister
- A 19th century astronomer who outshone her male colleagues to discover almost 400 stars.
We’ll also feature commentary and analysis on creative women across the years, from pop sensations to avant-garde painters.
Feeling artistic? Submit your own creative response to ‘what does it mean to be a dangerous woman?’
Charlie Rawson is a movement artist-researcher based in Bristol. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and a BA (Hons) in Geography and International Relations. Working between bodies and space, her practise looks atContinue reading
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Norns, Games and Aesthetics of Emergence
What do Norse myth, Macbeth’s witches, visual art, digital games and gender roles have in common? Today’s post from Tanya Krzywinska explores the links.
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Bi Visibility Day was last week. Today, we feature a reflection and poem from Siris Gallinat.
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when I got my first period…
Through autobiographical reflection, a provocative image and narratives of struggle in Ireland, Catherine Harper explores issues around women’s reproductive autonomy from puberty onwards.
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Annee Lawrence explores the life and writing of R. A. Kartini who left a powerful feminist, intellectual and nationalist legacy in Indonesia.
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‘A dangerous woman is one who whispers in the ears of others, blowing the wind of change…’ Read Clare Archibald’s creative take on the Project question.
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A ‘bad and dangerous’ woman?
Today’s Scottish PEN post is Jenni Calder’s wonderful account of writer Naomi Mitchison, who self-identified as ‘a witch, a priestess, a shape-shifter’.
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Sara Sheridan interrogates the taboo of female toplessness, tracing changing attitudes throughout the centuries & locating the body as a site for protest.
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Alice Tarbuck writes of nourishing the body as a radical feminist act, of kitchen magic that allows us to ‘protest, fight, right wrongs, change the world’.
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