Identity & Community
Maria Fusco is a critical and experimental cross-genre, contemporary and art writer. Here, she responds to an image from artist Jaki Irvine.
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One woman’s struggle to become legally divorced in India
Papia Sengupta spent five years seeking a divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act of India. Here, she shares the legal and social challenges she faced along her journey.
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The contentious legacy of Brenda Fassie, South Africa’s pop princess
Chisomo Kalinga explores the life and career of Brenda Fassie, against a backdrop of traditional values and stereotypes of black female sexuality.
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The angry ones: how women speaking out about abuse and assault are changing the conversation
Writer and digital producer Whitney Milam considers the strength it takes for women to speak out online, and the inherent danger in doing so, particularly in close-knit digital communities like the YouTube world.
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A Social Paradox: The Unusual Life of Miss Kate Ward
Miss Ward provided a home to unwanted, abandoned and otherwise homeless dogs. It might seem that Miss Ward was an asset to the town, so what was it that made her a dangerous woman?
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The struggle for women’s rights in Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexican activist Verónica Cruz Sánchez explains how she came to be perceived a dangerous woman, and why she embraces her dangerous identity in defense of human rights.
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Is it a dangerous idea? Undermining tradition? Threatening romantic love?
Joni Meenagh researches young people’s negotiation of their romantic and sexual relationships in the context of new media environments. Here, she challenges the notion of marital status as society’s most privileged category of interpersonal relationships.
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The Canadian Government may have thought niqab-wearing women dangerous. Audrey Macklin and Zunera Ishaq disagreed.
The first Dangerous Women Project post considers what it means to be a dangerous woman from several angles. It features two voices in the landmark 2015 court case between a young Muslim woman–Zunera Ishaq–and the Canadian Government.
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