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Plaits underneath an orange helmet

12th January 201710th January 2017
“I’d leave the heavy lifting to the boys” – Tree surgeon Millie Earle-Wright responds critically and creatively to the way people perceive ‘men’s work’. Continue reading

Riding with Baba Yaga

11th January 20179th January 2017
“Baba Yaga sits next to me on the bus,” writes Kate Feld in today’s creative exploration of a dangerous fairytale character. Continue reading

Lois Weber, Early Hollywood’s Forgotten Pioneer

10th January 20179th January 2017
The most profitable movie released by Universal Pictures in 1916 was a film on birth control and abortion, written and directed by a woman. Who was she? Continue reading

How Yoga Made Me Dangerous

9th January 20178th January 2017
“Yoga – and particularly the women of yoga – have shown me that to live dangerously is to be vulnerable, to open yourself up to exploring, to take risks…” Continue reading

With Great Power

A short story

8th January 20176th January 2017
What if you believed your sexuality was dangerous? Literally dangerous? Hannah Simpson’s short story asks this very question. Continue reading
miscarriage

The silence around miscarriage

“…we become dangerous women when we no longer carry a child.”

7th January 20176th January 2017
“We become dangerous women when we no longer carry a child”: today’s post explores the difficult silence surrounding early pregnancy and miscarriage. Continue reading
Fanny Stevenson

A Dangerous Collaboration

Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson

6th January 201724th January 2017
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life. Continue reading

A medieval phenomenon

5th January 20174th January 2017
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. Continue reading

Joan Eardley: A Woman for all Weathers

4th January 20173rd January 2017
Helen Boden writes about artist Joan Eardley, in a biography and a poem collaging the artist’s work, interests, method and life. Continue reading

Nature and danger: women’s environmentalism

3rd January 201727th November 2018
Kate Lewis Hood writes about inspiring women leading the charge for environmentalism, and the dangers they face along their path. Continue reading

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