Hullo,

I’m currently rewatching Twin Peaks, in anticipation of the upcoming season 3. I love this show and am going to use the women of Twin Peaks as an excuse to show pictures of the women of Twin Peaks and share flimsily related links with you all. I hope you are as excited as I am for this.

AUDREY HORNE

Audrey’s main function in season 1 is to swan around Twin Peaks, engaging in low level trolling of all and being by far the best dressed person in the town. She also delights in ruining the schemes of her businessman father, vulgar misogynist Ben Horne. If there is a vulgar misogynist whose schemes you would like to ruin, perhaps you will be inspired by this article on Nwanyeruwa, one of the first people to contest British rule in Nigeria:

The campaign which was called the ‘ogu umunwanye,’ or “the Women’s War,” referred to women ‘making war on the men,’ or sanctioning men who had been disrespectful. This practice, which was also called ‘sitting on a man’, was a traditional form of protest among Igbo women. When a man had done something disrespectful, he would be followed everywhere and forced to think on what he had done, with his hut burnt as a punishment and this pattern was followed in each village.

http://woman.ng/2016/10/how-nwanyeruwa-ignited-the-igbo-womens-war-of-1929/

DONNA HAYWARD

Donna – pictured here visiting her murdered best friend’s former boyfriend in jail – is trying to get out of being stereotyped as “the sensible one”, with reasonable success to date. If you too want to get out of whatever stereotypes people are putting on you, enjoy this story of amazing Vietnamese warrior woman Triệu Thị Trinh:

“I only want to ride the wind and walk the waves, slay the big whales of the Eastern sea, clean up frontiers, and save the people from drowning. Why should I imitate others, bow my head, stoop over and be a slave? Why resign myself to menial housework?”

http://projectvalkyrie.altervista.org/trieu-thi-trinh/?doing_wp_cron=1480995939.8683290481567382812500

NORMA JENNINGS

Norma runs the local (only?) diner and is an inspiring woman entrepreneur. In the episode I watched last night the special at the diner was Rabbit Chilli, so here is a recipe for rabbit chilli:

http://www.cooks.com/recipe/jr163593/rabbit-chili.html

Let me know if you cook this, I think it sounds great.

Love,

Alex.