queendom

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queendom

(ˈkwiːndəm)

a territory, state, people, or community ruled over by a queen

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This is my journey and it's a way of taking control and being a queen in your own queendom.

ON TH"I've spent too many years being angry and upset and against things... now I believe in love and forgiveness... She's one of today's most in-demand stars, but Noomi Rapace's journey to Hollywood has been far from plain sailing. The star tells GEMMA DUNN how, despite hardships, she fought hard to make her dream a reality ON THE small SCREEN

His latest novel is Crimson, set in a world where magic is fading and a queen who has ruled for a thousand years is starting to lose her grip on the queendom.

Hunting for hidden threads and buried gems

Gridiron Queendom (GIQ) is honoring women and girls in October by launching its "GIQ Chalk Talk" interview series which provides a heretofore unseen glimpse into the lives of girls and women breaking barriers in the last male-dominated sport: football.

Gridiron Queendom Launches "GIQ Chalk Talk" - a New Interview Series Featuring Women and Girls Who Play Tackle Football

As her presence is by then simply a nuisance Hel is hurled out of Asgard and sentenced to her underworld Queendom.

Simon, Francesca: The Monstrous Child

She defects to her own wintry Ice Queendom, fostering her own army and banning human affection from her domain: "Love is nothing more than a fairy tale," she hisses, coolly oblivious to her own generic surroundings.

The Huntsman: Winter's War

This week sees the release of the second part of the trilogy, The Invasion of The Tearling, where Kelsea finds herself defending her queendom.

10 things to make a note of this week..

Understandably limitations apply, but Stirling's claim that Ellen Galford's Queendom Come (1990) "contains probably the funniest female incarnation of Scotland in the twentieth century, or indeed at all" (115) would suggest that it merited more than the few pages of analysis provided.

Kirsten Stirling. 2008. Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text

When seventeen-year-old Raisa takes the throne, she inherits a queendom on the brink of civil war.

Chima, Cinda Williams. The Crimson Crown: A Seven Realms Novel

Many relaxing, realistic photos of Bangle Bear at home, in her yard and in her queendom adorn the chapters and pages.

The Pets/Wildlife Shelf

There appears to be an equivalence drawn between the bouquet she holds and the child-trophies in the arms of the other women in the painting; in this vaguely foreboding setting, normative dreams of prom queendom and coupling become mere instantiations of the logic of possession.

Helen Verhoeven, Stage Disasters

SHORTLY AFTER the Scandinavian queendom of Denmark slapped an innovative "fat tax" on a variety of food staples, Danes began to see the slimming effects--not on their waistlines but on their wallets.

Cheese, Danish: fat tax in Denmark

And Her Majesty the Queen of England has also been served with a Civil War branded as "Riots" raging throughout her almighty queendom.