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Tag: My Body's Bodies Editorial

Relative Change: a poem by Liz MacWhirter

28th March 20239th April 2023  Liz MacWhirter

Elemental reactions spark a primal, protective dissolution and reformation of the female body, in this beautifully vivid poem by Liz MacWhirter.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Creative Writing, Liz MacWhirter, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Our Body's Bodies, Poetry

The Woman in the Bath by Emma Jones

5th February 20237th February 2023  Emma Jones

In this beautifully meditative essay, Emma Jones reflects on Ithell Colquhoun’s painting, Scylla, the artist’s links to British Surrealism and how seeing the body as landscape takes us beyond our narrow borders into new realms of personal and collective freedom.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Emma Jones, Ithell Colquhoun, John Everett Millais, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Mythology, Ophelia, Our Body's Bodies, Pierre Bonnard, Scylla, Surrealism, Tate, Tate Britain, The Bath, water

Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp – a deep dive into the most vulnerable parts of ourselves

8th December 20228th December 2022  Seraphina Edelmann

Peaches and pigs, softness and hunger, all crop up and are used to explore women’s relationships to their bodies in Cecilia Knapp’s raw and remarkable collection, Peach Pig, writes our contributor Seraphina Edelmann.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bodies, Cecilia Knapp, Little Brown, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Peach Pg, Poetry, Seraphina Edelmann, women poets

Two poems by Louise Mather

15th November 202215th November 2022  Louise Mather

In Louise Mather’s short yet sublime poetry, the body is in turns a miracle immaculately conceived and mirrored before its speaker and an open wound, bloody for all to see.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Louise Mather, menstruation, Mental Health, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

An Interview with acclaimed author Savala Nolan: ‘Liminality gives me a sense of having multiple passports. It renders me a kind of polyglot and translator’

9th November 202210th November 2022  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Acclaimed author Savala Nolan talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her latest collection of essays, Don’t Let It Get You Down (The Indigo Press), navigating interstitial spaces and identities, the ubiquity of violence to women, imagination as a vital tool to access African American history and life writing as a form of cartography for readers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: African American history, Black Women Creatives, Black Women Writers, Bodies, creative non-fiction, Don't Let It Get You Down, essays, Feminism, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Intersectional Feminism, interviews, My Body's Bodies Editorial, non-fiction, personal essay, Saidiya Hartman, Savala Nolan, The Indigo Press

Mourning Yoga by Sevinç Çalhanoğlu

8th November 2022  Sevinç Çalhanoğlu

Grief and the motions of menstruation meet in this cyclical exercising (and exorcising) of loss and longing for an absent mother in Sevinç Çalhanoğlu’s beautiful and poignant poem, ‘Mourning Yoga’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, body, Mourning Yoga, My Body's Bodies Editorial, poem, Poetry, Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, yoga

Carbis Bay and other short fiction by Sascha Akhtar

31st August 20228th September 2022  Sascha Akhtar

Multiple voices haunt pain-wracked bodies and trauma-stored forms amid seaweed-strewn spaces in Sascha Akhtar’s beguiling short fiction.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Bodies, Fiction, Flash Fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Our Body's Bodies, Sascha Akhtar

The Composition of Maggie Chine by Paula Coston

18th August 2022  Paula Coston

In this gorgeously vivid and whiplash smart short story, Paula Coston plunges us into the world and bodily experiences of Maggie Chine, a 70-year-old woman who continues to live life to its fullest.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bodies, Fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, older women, Paula Coston, short fiction, Short Story

Writing the Weimar Body by Claire Thomson

16th August 202218th August 2022  Claire Thomson

During lockdown, the study of German expressionist artists George Grosz and Otto Dix, and their portrayals of women, made Claire Thomson recognise the stark truth of the body.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Dada, George Grosz, German Expressionism, Hannah Hoch, Karl Hofer, Lotte Lasertein, Marcel Duchamp, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Otto Dix, paintings, portraits, Rudolf Schlichter, Sylvia von Harden, Weimar Germany

Life’s A Butch & extracts from An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay by JP Seabright

17th July 202220th July 2022  JP Seabright

JP Seabright captures the excitement and ‘gay abandon’ of queer love in ‘Life’s A Butch’ and treats us to a selection of gorgeous visual poems and collages from their upcoming collection, An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: collage, Jeanette Winterson, JP Seabright, My Body's Bodies Editorial, poems, Poetry, poets, queer love

Our Words, Our Lives: Writing and M.E.

13th July 202214th July 2022  Lucy Writers

Five writers – Nasim Marie Jafry, Laura Elliott, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright and Louise Kenward – discuss what it’s like to write with M.E. and how chronic illness has forced them to discover new modes of understanding, new forms of expression, new realms of imagination (as edited by author Katy Wimhurst).

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright, Katy Wimhurst, Laura Elliott, Louise Kenward, M.E., My Body's Bodies Editorial, Nasim Marie Jafry, writing

Reclaiming the Muslim Woman’s Body by Faiqa Mansab

5th July 20225th July 2022  Faiqa Mansab

Faiqa Mansab discusses the prejudice and oppression – patriarchal, Islamophobic and colonial – that Muslim women face the world over and asks for a form of feminism which centres their needs and experiences too.

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Posted in My Feminisms, Opinion, PoliticsTagged: Bodies, Faiqa Mansab, Feminism, menstruation, Muslim Women, My Body's Bodies Editorial, opinion piece, Rawdah Mohamed, Shamsia Hassani, the hijab

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