Tag: Activism
From a member of the project team
A member of the Dangerous Women Project team shares her experiences of being labelled dangerous, and urges others to join the discussion.
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Ildiko Nova gives an artistic response to the project question, focusing on the perception of Roma women in Europe and beyond.
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Semiotic power of Her story
Ana Pavlić looks at the writing and activism of Marija Jurić Zagorka, who worked against the politics of her time to expose and improve the status of women.
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Peace and human rights campaigner, poet and much loved woman
Today we feature Jenny Engledow’s tribute to Hazel Rennie, poet and peace campaigner who went to jail four times for challenging war, violence and human rights abuses.
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Illustrator Rachel Roberts celebrates Malala Yousafzai, ‘a woman determined to realise a powerful and positive idea even in the face of danger’.
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Today, Gillian Mellor’s poetry responds to the work of Congolese activist Neema Namadamu.
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‘When you fight as a woman you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.’ Gill Thackray recounts meeting a sister in arms in a UN refugee camp in Thailand.
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A ‘bad and dangerous’ woman?
Today’s Scottish PEN post is Jenni Calder’s wonderful account of writer Naomi Mitchison, who self-identified as ‘a witch, a priestess, a shape-shifter’.
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Alice Tarbuck writes of nourishing the body as a radical feminist act, of kitchen magic that allows us to ‘protest, fight, right wrongs, change the world’.
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