Belief & Religion
Sally Wainwright on the Audacious Women Festival
Sally Wainwright tells us about the background of the Audacious Women Festival, its inception, its plans, and the power in its inclusivity.
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Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani is half-Algerian. She writes about unveiling, in a physical sense and through writing in French – an unveiling of the language.
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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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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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A poem by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
A dangerous woman questions the status quo; unpicks our assumptions by asking questions about them, or lives out questions by not behaving in expected ways.
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Beirut-based writer Nada Awar Jarrar explores her mixed feelings about feminism, identity and wearing the veil.
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‘The day she got married, along with a husband she acquired an official right to the colour Red.’ Sujana Upadhyay shows how a colour alone can be dangerous.
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Writer Hélène Cixous was revolutionary in her efforts to talk about ‘dangerous’ subject matters, as Raquelle K. Bostow explains.
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Lucy Flannery writes of one of the bravest, strongest and toughest women of the twelfth century – the Empress Matilda, Lady of the English.
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