Month: November 2019

• A Future

  A Future Head of Augustus Looms down Baby faced leader Acquisition of colonialism Castles stand proud Once battlements Survived invasions Safeguard our shores Across the beaches Horseback troops thrust galloping to battlement Faster and Faster Classic novels align Our past, our heritage The Empire, British supremacy Victories acclaimed, territory conquered Trains travel coastal bound Frontiers […]

  Alison Little

  November 29, 2019

  Bataclan, Bio-degrade, Conquering, death, Decay, Flash Fiction, Home grown terrorism, Poetry, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Restoration, Revive, Roman, Roman Empire, Rubbish, Terror Attack, Uncategorized

• Barbie Must Die!

    The top 10 reasons why Barbie must die and be with us no longer. 10 Goes out with Ken. 9 Drives very slow cars. 8 A bit too fond of Pink! 7 Delicate and brakes easily. 6 Does nothing other than leisure activities. 5 Injection moulded, resulting in her looking like every other injection […]

  Alison Little

  November 22, 2019

  American Dream, Aryan culture, Barbie, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, death, Domesticity, Female Icons, Feminism, Funeral, Gender Roles, Uncategorized

• Different types of colors in “The Two Fridas”

  Originally posted on Elements And Principles:
  Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo (Frida Kahlo) Frida was born: July 6, 1907, Coyoacan, Mexico “En la casa azul” (blue house) Died: July 13, 1954, Coyoacan,  Mexico When Frida was young(6) she contracted a disease named polio which left her with one leg thinner than the other. In 1922 she was enrolled …

  Alison Little

  November 21, 2019

  Uncategorized

• 1950’s Girls Annuals: the Homemaker

  Seventy years on from when the girls annual of the 1950’s were being read in the  pink bedrooms of the post-second world war generation we look back at there content. Where they looking to inspire the girls who would grow up to lead second-wave feminism through the seventies, or were they looking to indoctrinate the […]

  Alison Little

  November 8, 2019

  1950’s, Beauty, Bio-degrade, Domesticity, Eco warrior, Female Icons, Feminism, Feminist Art, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Freedom of speech, Gender Roles, House Wife, Learning, Morality, Recycle, Recycling, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• Sinister Smiles

  Sinister Smiles Folded over Strapped down Sectioned off Cajoled, centrally Dropped down from a disheveled Heaven Tossed out of Godliness Rejected from comfort provision for the afterlife No longer good enough, surplus to requirements Perhaps pushed out of a boot Uphill reversing, then shoveled out the back way Redundant of domestic interior requirements Rendering green space urban […]

  Alison Little

  November 1, 2019

  accidents, Art, Conceptual Art, death, Decay, Degrading, fiction, Flash Fiction, Installation, Liverpool, Narcotics, Poetry, re-coil, Uncategorized