This piece began based on my experiences of holding women’s spaces for the last 8 years, and attending them for the last 17 years. Whilst writing I discovered much more by researching. There are a lot of angles on the broader subject of transgender rights that this post doesn’t touch upon (e.g. in sport), andContinue reading “Towards Gender Inclusivity in Women’s Spaces”
Category Archives: Women
The Power of saying ‘No’
Spirited Bodies presents the next Stories of Women event, featuring co-founder Morimda, a professional life model of over 20 years experience. This will be held on Tuesday September 25th, 7pm – 9pm at The Feminist Library. From being an extremely shy person, it was through life modelling that Morimda emerged – found out whoContinue reading “The Power of saying ‘No’”
Stories of Women ~ the journey so far
The idea came as a way to develop the interview format where I would record models and artists speaking about their experiences relating to modelling and drawing, and play this while the models posed. With Stories of Women I chose to focus on one model each time, and give her the chance to lead andContinue reading “Stories of Women ~ the journey so far”
Stories of Women ~ with Claire
Monday 22 January 2018 is the date of our next Stories of Women event – with artist, writer and model Claire Collison. You can read more about the event and find a link to buy tickets here. Claire says, “If we are to translate the silence surrounding breast cancer into language and action against thisContinue reading “Stories of Women ~ with Claire”
WOW PERTH
We arrived on the train late on Friday evening of 27th October, and after a long day travelling we were happy to walk along the river Tay to find our digs and snuggle down for the night. We unfortunately missed Jude Kelly talking to Nicola Sturgeon which is a shame, but we didn’t know aboutContinue reading “WOW PERTH”
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