Category: Abortion

• I May Destroy You

  I May Destroy You A staggering 6 weeks ago, when lock down restrictions were beginning to ease, our TV screens and minds were illuminated by: ‘I May Destroy you’. I, myself, who fared badly from the pandemic, was starting to recover from a long tail case of Covid-19. This drama series was the primary broadcast […]

  Alison Little

  July 17, 2020

  Abortion, Adverse Lifestyle, Bi Sexual, Britishness, Casual Sex, Conflict, Consent, Covid-19, Female Icons, Feminism, Fertility, Fetish, fiction, Gender Roles, High School, Morality, Narcotics, Non-consensual sex, pandemic, Period, Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Relationships, Reynhard Sinaga, Same Sex Relationships, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Warped

• Missed: Mrs America?

  Wednesday night saw the TV series Mrs America hit our screen in the UK. The series dramatises, more than documents the path of second-wave feminism in the United States. The initial episode centres around Phyllis Schlafly, played by the Hollywood great: Cate Blanchette. Schlafly, a staunch anti-feminist who lead the fight against the Equal Rights […]

  Alison Little

  July 10, 2020

  1950’s, Abortion, Beauty Pageanting, Conflict, Conquering, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Depression, Domesticity, Family, Female Icons, Feminism, fiction, Gloria Steinem, House Wife, Leg over, Morality, Mother, No Sex, Non-consensual sex, Phyllis Schlafly, Relationships, Religious Controlling Mechanism, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• A Void

  A Void In this, I have agreed to what was termed ‘A life modelling process’ for an artist seeking volunteers for a project he is working on. I stand before him in my dressing gown, nude underneath and wondering what he wants me to do, he tells me: ‘Don’t worry, I have done this lots […]

  Alison Little

  January 24, 2020

  Abortion, Art, Casual Sex, Celebration, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Consent, Decay, Degrading, Depression, Dildo, Disorder, Domesticity, Dust, End of Innocence, Ethical, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Fertility, fiction, Flash Fiction, Gender Roles, Hopital, Illegal Abortion, Impotency, Installation, KY Jelly, Latex, Library, Life Model, Liverpool, Liverpool Central Library, Menopause, Mental Health, Metropolis, Morality, Non-consensual sex, Photography, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Suffrage Movement, Third wave feminism, Trauma, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin, Victim Blaming, Vulva, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• Quotes from Catherine MacKinnon

  Catherine MacKinnon, a mother of second-wave feminism, led the US movement alongside greats such as Andrea Dworkin and Gloria Steinem. Primarily, a legal scholar, lecturing at institutions such as Harvard. Specialising in sexual harassment, pornography and prostitution. We take a look at some quotes from her acclaimed 1980’s publication, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on life and […]

  Alison Little

  December 6, 2019

  Abortion, Casual Sex, Consent, Degrading, Female Icons, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Male gaze, Morality, Mother, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Violence, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• Gloria Steinem

  

  The iconic feminist, the writer, the political activist and the author of her later biography, ‘My Life on the Road’. As a girl, she traveled across the US between Ohio and Florida for most of her informative years. The trailor upbringing came to an end when her parents divorced, she went to live and care for […]

  Alison Little

  September 13, 2019

  Abortion, Casual Sex, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Consentual Sex, Gloria Steinem, Graduation, High School, House Wife, Illegal Abortion, Mental Health, Rape and Sexual Violence, Seventies, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Uncategorized

• Riendeer versus Diesel

  The last call of the evening on my busiest evening of the year Christmas Eve, I overheard a comment about how reindeer must be soo much cheaper than diesel. Reindeer cheaper than diesel? You have to feed them and they eat loads. Harnesses have to be bought and you have to pay extra for the […]

  Alison Little

  December 22, 2017

  Christmas, Crack, Crack whore, fiction, Leg over, Menopause, Pre-menstraul, Relationships, Roodolf, Seventies, Uncategorized

• Jane

  Jane, the sculptural form was exhibited for IN:VISIBLE women, full-day conference held at Liverpool Central Library on Friday the 27th October. Simply Jane was the accompanying fictional works read at the event, both were created by Alison Little in autumn 2017. The following piece was commissioned by the Liverpool Irish Festival, from artist Alison Little, as […]

  Alison Little

  October 27, 2017

  Abortion, Art, Conceptual Art, Evil, Family, Fatigue, Feminist Art, Fine Art Textiles, Illegal Abortion, Learning, Leisure time, Liverpool, Mental Health, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Teenage Pregnancy, Uncategorized, Women’s Right