Women’s history month
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Kathrine Switzer, Bobbi Gibb and women who run
In 1967 Kathrine Switzer entered the Boston Marathon. Nothing particularly strange about that you might think, but at that point women weren’t allowed to enter it. Switzer managed to sneak past the officials by putting her name down with only her initials. Only a few miles into the race, a race official tried to physically…
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I PARTICIPATED IN A 4-DAY DEVISING WORKSHOP…
This is a guest post by Alison Halstead. Alison is a Mimbre Associate Performer, and a British-born, American-raised, professionally-trained actor. This article originally appeared on her blog 4 foot 6, on 5th December 2016. – one of several workshops for d/Deaf and disabled actors, hosted by a major U.K. theatre. Some years ago, a disabled…
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SUFFRAGETTE CIRCUS
This is a re-post by The Virtuoso. This article originally appeared on The Virtuoso, on March 1st 2016. Today, a story that has nothing to do with science or literature, but one in honor of Super Tuesday and Women’s History Month: women’s suffrage! Specifically, women’s suffrage in the circus! And no, it’s not about the…
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A FEW YEARS BACK…
This is a guest post by Alison Halstead. Alison is a Mimbre Associate Performer, and a British-born, American-raised, professionally-trained actor. This article originally appeared on her blog 4 foot 6, on 4th September 2016. …I auditioned for an all-female acrobatics company. The small ensemble was looking to expand and to work with women of differing creative and…
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Caroline Norton and the Married Women’s Property Act
Before rape within marriage was made a crime in 1994, before the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act made it illegal to discriminate against women at work, before women were given the same right to vote as men in 1928 or at all in 1918, came the Married Women’s Property Act of 1870 which I think was…
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Sawdust and sisterhood
This is a guest post by Flora Herberich. Flora has worked in circus in a range of roles from performer to producer; she’s currently circus associate at Jacksons Lane. This article originally appeared on The F-Word, on July 11th 2016. Sawdust and sisterhood: I’m shamelessly borrowing my title from a new book with a very…
