Friedman, then a 20 - something dot - com entrepreneur, was still buzzing from the sight of thousands of people casting off the shackles of societal convention on the desolate terrain outside Reno, and started wondering if there might be a way to unleash stifled political activity in the same way. (discovermagazine.com)
During the Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about her latest book, Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, which details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the Civil War. (bookpage.com)
Founded in Hull during the late 1960s by artists Genesis P - Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, COUM was a collective whose work confronted, subverted and challenged societal conventions. (fadmagazine.com)