Tag: women writers
Sara Sheridan interrogates the taboo of female toplessness, tracing changing attitudes throughout the centuries & locating the body as a site for protest.
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Alice Tarbuck writes of nourishing the body as a radical feminist act, of kitchen magic that allows us to ‘protest, fight, right wrongs, change the world’.
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The Finnish context
Violence committed by women has become a hot topic in public debate in Finland over recent years. Satu Venäläinen explores the dynamics and implications.
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The case of Anne Askew
In the first weeks of the Dangerous Women Project we featured poetry inspired by Anne Askew. Today, Debapriya Basu delves deeper into Anne’s story.
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Anna Ridler works with existing collections of information or data to create new and unusual narratives. Here, she challenges our perceptions with images from the Saudi Cables data dump.
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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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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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On gendered speech patterns
‘Often all it takes to be a dangerous woman is to speak.’ Laura Waddell sounds a call to arms – speak up!
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