Michelle McGrane has posted about Binders on the wonderful Peony Moon. You can read sample poems by contributors Maria Gornell, Mara Katz, Rowena Knight, and Jacqueline Saphra, plus a brand new collaborative poem by all the contributors! And a word from the editors about the charities the project is supporting.
“Make it as political as hell, and make it irrevocably
beautiful.”
– Toni Morrison
Contributors are Sarah Crewe, Nia Davies, Amy Evans, Maria Gornell, Sarah Hesketh, Kirsten Irving, Mara Katz, Rowena Knight, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Agnes Marton, Sophie Mayer, Sally McAlister, Michelle McGrane, slmendoza, Steph Pike, Chella Quint, Nat Raha, Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Jacqueline Saphra, Claire Trévien, Jackie Wills, Alison Winch.
Editors, Sarah Crewe and Sophie Mayer, write:
Threats to society. Shouty women, scroungers on benefits, queers, trannies, boys in lipstick, girls in suits. This is how Republicans see it. This is how Tories see it. This is how every right wing government sees it.
Those of us screaming out of the Binders Full of Women see things differently. We have to, because we are these “threats to society”.
We see inequality as the greatest…
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