Tag: feminism
Women’s Rights
Don’t try to introduce my skin to your skin cause such introduction doesn’t let the light get in. Don’t try to prove me as your servant while getting …
Read moreGwen Davies reviews Y Gymru ‘Ddu’ a’r Ddalen ‘Wen’: Aralledd ac Amlddiwylliannedd mewn Ffuglen Gymreig, er 1990 by Lisa Sheppard
Gwen Davies stakes a claim for fiction in the creation of empathy, that missing life-skill in those at risk of mental health breakdown and lawbreaking …
Read moreWhere The Wild Ladies Are
When I first began to read Where The Wild Ladies Are, a downright genius reinvention of traditional Japanese ghost stories by Matsuda Aoko, I was not …
Read moreAn Interview With Helen Mort
The poet Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. Her first collection Division Street (Chatto & Windus, 2013) won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her second …
Read moreThe Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine, by Jasmine Donahaye
Eluned Gramich sings in praise of readers of unkosher novels and among them, Lily Tobias, the subject of Jasmine Donahaye’s expert biography in Honno’ …
Read moreNow I Become Myself: A Woman’s Voice in Music and Poetry, a Lecture by Rhian Samuel
This year’s annual Richard Burton lecture was delivered by Rhian Samuel in the Great Hall of Swansea University’s Bay Campus. Rhian, a widely successf …
Read moreDear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, at Swansea’s Elysium Gallery
The Elysium gallery is an unsuspected little gem at the top of Swansea’s high street. Neatly nestled between two shops with ‘For Sale’ signs in the wi …
Read moreJust a Woman with Nothing on her Skin
What are the politics of a photograph? Legally, it belongs to the photographer, but how does this dynamic play out when so often women have been the e …
Read morePlu by Caryl Lewis
Gwen Davies reviews a new edition of the debut short story collection Plu by Caryl Lewis (Y Lolfa). Recorded and edited by John Tudor; researched, scr …
Read moreGirls Are Coming Out of the Woods
Jyoti Singh, a twenty-three-year-old medical student, had been coming home from the cinema in New Delhi. After catching a bus, she was brutally gang-r …
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