Tag: women writers
A short story
What if you believed your sexuality was dangerous? Literally dangerous? Hannah Simpson’s short story asks this very question.
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(Or Things My Wife and I Found Hidden In Our House)
In today’s post, writer Kirsty Logan weaves a magical short story of dangerous women and Scottish myth.
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Daisy Bates: “acquainted with 115 languages of Australia” and… a liar. Lauren Gawne examines a dangerous figure in Australian language study.
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Beirut-based writer Nada Awar Jarrar explores her mixed feelings about feminism, identity and wearing the veil.
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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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Writer Hélène Cixous was revolutionary in her efforts to talk about ‘dangerous’ subject matters, as Raquelle K. Bostow explains.
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Jonatha Kottler reflects on encountering, at different stages of life, the figure of Guinevere in popular culture.
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What a way to make a living
Laura Clay pays tribute to Dolly Parton – ‘an early feminist pioneer, in a stuffy, set-in-its-ways country music industry’.
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Lucy Flannery writes of one of the bravest, strongest and toughest women of the twelfth century – the Empress Matilda, Lady of the English.
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