Tag: Activism
To celebrate the halfway mark in our year of dangerous women, we feature a powerful spoken word piece from award-winning poet Agnes Török – ‘Reclaim the Internet’.
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Pegi Eyers makes a call to arms for recognising and speaking out against intersectional injustice, particularly when it comes to white privilege.
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Adrienne Gerhäuser, Corinna Kawaters and the ‘Red Zora’
Katharina Karcher delves into the history of Red Zora, a German feminist group that claimed responsibility for forty-five arson attacks and bombings between the 1970s & 1990s.
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Rosemary Harris gives us a research-led creative take on the activism of Rosa May Billinghurst, a suffragette who would let nothing get in her way, including her own disability.
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The War on Women: And the Brave Ones Who Fight Back
Today we feature an extract from Sue Lloyd-Roberts’ book ‘The War on Women: And the Brave Ones Who Fight Back’, along with an introductory note from Allan Little.
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Letitia Youmans and the Temperance Movement in Canada
In 19th century Canada, the liquor trade’s greatest enemy turned out to be a very dangerous woman who unexpectedly found herself leading the campaign to control it.
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Feminist, subversive and a challenge to Big Tobacco
Do you know who the tobacco industry identified as one of the three most dangerous people in the world? Today we hear from Dr Judith Mackay, British medical doctor based in Hong Kong, and pioneering anti-tobacco campaigner.
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Sharon Thompson draws attention to the plight of mothers caring for a terminally ill child, highlighting the dangers they face & present to current policy.
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Dangerous woman?
Was Millicent Garrett Fawcett a dangerous woman? Certainly not, but her refusal to be thwarted and her sheer determination made her seem very dangerous indeed.
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