Identity & Community
What does it mean to be a dangerous (Black) woman?
Tess Ryan explores some of the leadership roles – and challenges – that Black women have taken on in Australia using the idea of the ‘angry black woman’.
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Nina Mega is a Dangerous Woman because she is autistic and proud of it. Her mother Catherine Simpson tells us why in words and pictures.
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Fake Woman and Dangerous Mystic
Marguerite Porete was accused of being a heretic and even a ‘pseudo’ woman by the Inquisition and executed in the early fourteenth century. Laura Moncion explores the implications of her gender for judgements made about her.
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Sea Sharp’s poem presents the ambiguous figure of Calamity Jane, using the ambiguity in the form of the poetry to mimic the ambiguity in Jane’s identity.
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Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry argue that gender stereotypes obscure the actual dangerousness of politically violent women.
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Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond
By reviewing the story of Lee Miller’s life, Patricia Allmer explores how the woman artist occupies a permanently impermanent position, constantly discovered and then re-discovered.
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Three poems by JL Williams
Through her poetry, JL Williams explores the challenge of expressing emotions freely as a woman in a patriarchal society.
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Susanna Crossman’s short story ‘The Tally’ explores a woman’s journey to seek vengeance.
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Looks are a danger
Jelena Džankić considers the implications of being a tall academic woman and reaches the conclusion that looks can be dangerous
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