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Farah Karim-Cooper: ‘In the festive tradition, the green world becomes a space where social norms can be interrogated, playfully disrupted and occasionally subverted. Conventional and, at times, restrictive ideas about marriage, love, sexuality, gender, race, identity, social hierarchy, sex and emotions are thrown to the wind as court-world elites are either exiled or voluntarily escape the tyrannies of the city’
![In the festive tradition, the green world becomes a space where social norms can be interrogated, playfully disrupted, and occasionally subverted. Conventional and, at times, restrictive ideas about marriage, love, sexuality, gender, race, identity, social hierarchy, sex and emotions are thrown to the wind as court-world elites are either exiled or voluntarily escape the tyrannies of the city. Farah Karim-Cooper](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/423ea9a63416e61759ad4cccb3d5de85fc4091d2/0_0_9528_6328/master/9528.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=db69e92a7c2da9379d9d6235854b546b)