Tag: women’s bodies
“How dangerous to claim your body as wholly your own” : Tara Pixley gives us a snapshot of the women finding their own feminism and power in neo-burlesque.
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Dangerous women and the ‘pink ribbon’ culture
“It is okay to be sceptical.” Adela Briansó introduces the dangerous women who question the ‘pinkification’ of breast cancer.
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“Yoga – and particularly the women of yoga – have shown me that to live dangerously is to be vulnerable, to open yourself up to exploring, to take risks…”
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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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“…we become dangerous women when we no longer carry a child.”
“We become dangerous women when we no longer carry a child”: today’s post explores the difficult silence surrounding early pregnancy and miscarriage.
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Challenging the way we think about the beauty industry
Molly Sheridan is interested representations of women in the beauty and fashion industry. Here, she discusses founding feminist perfume brand REEK with her mother.
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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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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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