Tag: relationships
Frances Ryan contextualises her own experience as a young widow with research around the topic and society’s ideas of what a widow ought to be.
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“Watching a film, apparently, is code.” Christina Neuwirth grapples with the ‘Friend Zone’ idea, among other dangerous narratives of socialising & dating.
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Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
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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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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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Think you know the Rapunzel fairytale? But have you heard the other side of the story?
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(13 March 1890 – 22 May 1970)
In our monthly post from Scottish PEN, Margery Palmer McCulloch shows how Willa Muir was “‘dangerous’ in the best creative and cultural sense of the word”.
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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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