Tag: marriage
When Grace Gelder decided to make vows to herself in an act of self-marriage, it was hard to anticipate that it would go viral, or be perceived a dangerous act.
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‘The day she got married, along with a husband she acquired an official right to the colour Red.’ Sujana Upadhyay shows how a colour alone can be dangerous.
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Can a wife only dance with her husband?
Eloísa Pérez-Lozano grew up bilingual and bicultural in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Iowa State University with her M.S. in journalism and mass communication and her B.S. in psychology. She is a long-distance member ofContinue reading
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Swati Ali gives us insight into the dangerous women of her family over several generations of life in India.
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Stella Khachina Busolo shares the story of why her mother is a dangerous and inspiring woman, defying the cultural norms of her Kenyan village.
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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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‘A married woman doing her own, independent thing is threatening to the social fabric.’ Wendy Pillar recounts being a ‘dangerous woman’ on holiday.
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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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Glenda Norquay explores how Scottish novelist Annie S. Swan was viewed by many as a dangerous woman by writing sentimental fiction that evoked a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
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