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?’
The case of Anne Askew
In the first weeks of the Dangerous Women Project we featured poetry inspired by Anne Askew. Today, Debapriya Basu delves deeper into Anne’s story.
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The Myth of Procne & Philomela
Jean Menzies takes a look at the Philomela and Procne myth, which demonstrated the multifaceted dangerous potential of women in Ancient Greece.
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Anna Ridler works with existing collections of information or data to create new and unusual narratives. Here, she challenges our perceptions with images from the Saudi Cables data dump.
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When Meltem Naz Kaso volunteers to help women from different faiths communicate, they all become dangerous to the persistence of xenophobia & Islamophobia.
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Celebrating South Africa’s National Women’s Day
This time last month, National Women’s Day was celebrated in South Africa. Today, Lynnda Wardle reflects personally on the cultural context of past activists.
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Glenda Norquay explores how Scottish novelist Annie S. Swan was viewed by many as a dangerous woman by writing sentimental fiction that evoked a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
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To celebrate the halfway mark in our year of dangerous women, we feature a powerful spoken word piece from award-winning poet Agnes Török – ‘Reclaim the Internet’.
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Maya Mackrandilal’s art explores the ‘othering’ idea of the monster through performance of Hindu goddesses–confronting the fears of Western social norms.
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Norwegian storyteller Georgiana Keable recounts the life and works of Wangari Mathaai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her conservation work in Kenya.
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