Identity & Community
“We were Eve, Lilith, Circe, Pandora. They watched our transition from pink to red, their hearts in their throats,” writes Lily Stojcevski.
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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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…in conservative Asia
Valerie Wong gives us a wonderful tribute to her mother and aunts, who were proudly dangerous women growing up in conservative Asia.
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Redefining danger as a ‘softer but more durable quality’
“A mother with aspirations may be entirely natural but it’s also dangerous.” Natasha Rivett-Carnac reflects on balancing motherhood with professional life.
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Siobhan Shields traces the expectations and symbolism of women’s hair through her journeys of hair loss during chemotherapy.
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“How dangerous to claim your body as wholly your own” : Tara Pixley gives us a snapshot of the women finding their own feminism and power in neo-burlesque.
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The shocking life of Harriette Wilson
Harriette Wilson: “who captivated, charmed & dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger & terrify her way straight back out.”
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Athena Enderstein writes, “And so I am some kind of secret foreigner, for as long as I am silent I pass as a native, until a conversation starts.”
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