Tag: women’s bodies
“I am walking through the world with no breasts, & I don’t care if that makes you uncertain, if you can’t gender me,” declares Sasha Fisher in today’s post.
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A Brief History
Today’s post asks questions about the uncomfortable relationship between eugenics and feminism, historically and today.
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Amanda Gouws examines the collective action led by young activists against rape and rape culture in South African universities.
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Dangerous women serving the city
Over the course of three centuries, the prostitutes of Florence ascended from outcasts to workers in the service of the state. Gillian Jack explains how.
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Photography by Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston
Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston is an Edinburgh-based photographer and documentary film maker who grew up in Sri Lanka and fled during the Civil War. Much of her work to date has focused on children’s and women’sContinue reading
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Viccy Adams describes feeling like a dangerous woman for the first time as she becomes aware of the mysteries ascribed to her private body in public.
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“From afar, she shimmers. Her sari is pillar-box red…” Sim Bajwa writes of women perceived as dangerous for defying social and cultural expectations.
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Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani is half-Algerian. She writes about unveiling, in a physical sense and through writing in French – an unveiling of the language.
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…in conservative Asia
Valerie Wong gives us a wonderful tribute to her mother and aunts, who were proudly dangerous women growing up in conservative Asia.
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