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JOANNA BOURKE

Blogs
Here are my latest blogs! Enjoy.


Marai Larasi: Inspirations Series
‘If we are to end violence against women and girls, we need to create seismic shifts across our social norms’. So says Marai Larasi,...
Feb 6, 20245 min read


'Evil Women': Eve's Legacies
Evil women. This is the first of a series of blogs about evil women, so, before turning to Eve’s evil legacies, I want to draw attention to the difficulties and tensions involved in presenting a series of blogs on ‘Evil Women’. What is meant by ‘evil’ and ‘women’, and what happens when these two concepts are placed together? Two questions immediately arise. First, what do we mean when we talk about ‘evil’? This will be developed and elaborated in this series of blogs. Brie
Feb 5, 202416 min read


Breast Cancer: Stories and Activism
In September 1971, Ebony magazine published an article that broke a major taboo: a survivor of breast cancer wrote candidly about her...
Feb 5, 202425 min read
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