Storyhouse Women: How to Be a F*cking Lady

Dawn is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender in Theology and Religious Studies. She has published on women’s religious reading practices, the relationship between religion and gender, feminist generations, research methodologies, and motherhood and voluntary childlessness. She has featured several times on BBC Radio programmes like Beyond Belief, Sunday, All Things Considered, and The Sunday Show and contributes regularly to Voice of Islam, and podcasts. Dawn is a former member of the Storyhouse Women focus group and has featured on various panels. 

Writer, academic, broadcaster, and cultural critic – known for dismantling patriarchal nonsense with both intellect and wit. Katie has written widely for the press, and her work has featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph,  The i Newspaper, The Independent, The Conversation, The New Statesman, The Washington Post and Newsweek. 

As a broadcaster, her credits include the award-winning and critically acclaimed 2018 Lent Talk ‘Silence of the Lamb’, which Katie wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4. 

Katies articles include:  

Attitudes to Katie Price reflect cultural preoccupations about deserving and undeserving women: which women warrant our support and compassion – based on their respectability – and which do not.” 

 A Queen Barbie isn’t a symbol of feminism – it reminds girls to know their place Suggesting that the Queen symbolises ‘the limitless potential of every girl’ is a poor taste joke at the expense of the vast majority of girls in this country” 

 “Kanye West’s weirdness doesn’t give us the right to tut at his ‘wife’. So what if Bianca Censori likes nude bodysuits? We see nipples and butt cracks on the red carpet all the time, so leave her alone – if she wants to weaponise her outfits, I say go for it…” 

 We wanted Britney to be ‘free’ – now let her be.” “We wanted a #FreeBritney who didn’t make us feel uncomfortable – one who behaved the way we wanted and expected. Well, that’s not really #FreeBritney at all now, is it?” 

A BBC comedy sponsored Female Pilot Club 2025 winner, BBC new comedy awards semi finalist, tour support for Kiri Pritchard-McLean and commissioned playwright. Bradford born Seeta travels the length of the country doing stand-up comedy based around her mixed-heritage, stories about growing up working class and general ridiculousness. Seeta is a huge advocate of diversifying comedy in an industry which is still typically pale, male and stale – she runs comedy workshops through Theatre in the Mill in Bradford for women, non-binary people with a big push for getting more global majority comedians out on the circuit. 

Cicely Delany is queer, disabled, neurodivergent early careers artist, working as a playwright and theatre maker. They are an Assistant Facilitator for Creative Communities at Storyhouse, and have run workshops for young people exploring the arts, history, activism and identity.