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Co-founder of the Women s Equality Party, Catherine Mayer, was married to influential musician Andy Gill until his death in Feb 2020. This International Women s Day, Mayer shares with affecting honesty how grief adds clarity to her life-affirming activism
I was five years old when my father introduced me to the concept of grief, casting me in a production of the Greek tragedy, “The Trojan Women”. I played a Trojan child, one of many torn from a female population already grieving loss upon loss, of their menfolk, their homeland, their liberty. Abused and subjugated, the women in the play are not only bereaved, but disempowered.
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Jill Hopper and Arif in Wales: âAs their love affair began, it was already ending.â Photograph: Jill Hopper
Jill Hopper and Arif in Wales: âAs their love affair began, it was already ending.â Photograph: Jill Hopper
Three very different accounts of bereavement â by Jill Hopper, Vanessa Moore, and Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird â are by turns heart-rending, compassionate and forthright
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It is no accident that during the pandemic â this extended, unstable period of losses â many books about grief are being published. Grief is a spur to a writer: a means of working through mourning and, in some cases, of continuing a personâs life on the page. There can be no prescription for grief, no âhow toâ wisdom, although psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross observed, in 1969, that it tends to evolve through five stages: deni
WOW UK S 21 Day Digital Festival Marking International Women s Day 2021 Starts Today
There will be over 30 ticketed talks, discussions and workshops featuring some of the world s most exciting performers, activists and voices.by BWW News Desk
WOW - Women of the World s UK March flagship Festival will, for the first time, take place online. Starting today, the festival celebrating women and girls, which is usually held at the Southbank Centre, will run for three weeks (1st - 21st March) with a line-up of over 30 ticketed talks, discussions and workshops featuring some of the world s most exciting performers, activists and voices.
With the support of WOW s global founding partner Bloomberg, alongside the UK, WOW Festivals and events will take place across the world in partnership with The WOW Foundation in regions including Australia, Bangladesh, Istanbul, Nepal, New York, Pakistan and Taiwan.
Each Sunday, during these cherished visits at Anne s home in north London, they talked, about the emotional isolation of losing a loved one during a global pandemic and the practicalities of widowhood.
Anne s second husband John Bird died just before Christmas last year, a week before their 40th wedding anniversary. Barely two months after John died I was living in a world he wouldn t have recognised. I lost my husband, whom I adored, and five weeks later – minutes really – I was locked up in the pandemic. I d never lived alone in my life, says Anne.
Then, just six weeks after John s death, the husband of her youngest daughter, Catherine, died of pneumonia after falling ill in early December.