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Her famous poem 'We Sinful Women' (Urdu: ہم گنہگار عورتیں), affectionately referred to as a women's anthem among Pakistani feminists, gave its title to a groundbreaking anthology of contemporary Urdu feminist poetry, translated and edited by Rukhsana Ahmad and published in London by The Women's Press in 1991. [5] [2]
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is the title of the collection of satirical poems published on June 12, 1915 [ 1 ] by suffragist Alice Duer Miller . [ 2 ] Many of the poems in this collection were originally released individually in the New York Tribune between February 4, 1913 to November 4, 1917.
In 2017, Manzoor-Khan performed at The Last Word Festival in London's Roundhouse Poetry Slam, winning the competition with her poem "This is not a Humanising Poem". Her performance of the poem, which spoke about how the world values Muslims based on how 'good' or 'bad' they are considered to be, [23] went viral after being posted on the Roundhouse's Facebook page.
Her poetry particularly covers themes relating to the experiences of women and war. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] Some of her poetry has subsequently been included in anthologies such as Daughters of Africa (1992), [ 7 ] The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry (1995), The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (1999) and Step into a World: A Global Anthology ...
Sukirtharani is an Indian feminist [1] [2] [3] poet who is widely acclaimed for her contribution to contemporary Dalit and Tamil literature. [4]Sukirtharani is also a Tamil teacher at the Government Girls High School in Ranipet District, and has a master's degree in economics and Tamil literature. [1]
Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" poem remains an anthem for the oppressed's struggle against the powerful, especially Black women. Themes of dignity and strength are inspiring.
After the Supreme Court ruled Friday to overturn Roe vs. Wade, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed it through poetry. It's not the first time.
Kyung Peggy Kim Meill has also written a study of the social background of the women in the text called Diversity in the Women of the Therīgāthā (2020). A recent collection of original poems inspired by the Therigatha by the poet Matty Weingast has peen published by Shambhala Publications as The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist ...