Tag: USA
Jo Clifford wonders at how dangerous she is perceived to be, particularly in response to her writing and performing a play which imagines Jesus coming back to earth in the present day as a trans woman.
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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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In a post inspired by a photograph taken in 2015, Jo Shaw explores the imagery of ‘women with guns’.
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‘Educated, attractive, charming when she wishes’.
Ros Parr takes a look back to the mid-twentieth century at the height of the career of Indian anti-colonial activist Viyaja Lakshmi Pandit.
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Maya Mackrandilal’s art explores the ‘othering’ idea of the monster through performance of Hindu goddesses–confronting the fears of Western social norms.
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‘Being dangerous can mean being aware of all the injustice and boldly acknowledging that no one deserves it’ – Afghan-born artist Zuhal Feraidon takes a feminist approach to integrating women into Islamic art.
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Seeing powerful women in a new frame
Artist Satdeep Grewal’s exhibition reframes perceptions of women who have inhabited positions of power despite criticism or attacks based on gender or race.
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From Moll Flanders to Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Nicola Lacey draws links between representations of women in literature and their real life treatment under the laws of the 18th century and beyond.
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On encounters with Martha Gellhorn
Playwright and theatre director Julia Pascal recounts her time spent with Martha Gellhorn, one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century.
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