Category: Family

• 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

• The Man Who

  Dave, my partner died from covid-19 during the pandemics deadliest week in Britain. This poem was written for him and read at his funeral. Due to the circumstances only 10 could attend the service and we were seated 2 metres apart. Now, as we progress towards some kind of pre-coronavirus normality, only without Dave and…

  Alison Little

  June 19, 2020

  Albert Dock, Athletico Madrid, Birkenhead, Britain’s deadliest week, Cammell Laird, coronavirus, Covid-19, death, Family, Funeral, Hurricane Alison, Lock-down, pandemic, Poetry, Public confidence, Relationships, Uncategorized

• Rags, the Boutique does Southport

  Last Saturday saw the fun of Rags Boutique at Southport Festival. For the magic-themed festival we created an array of high standing wizard hats, a collection of mushroom masks. Black cats masqueraded and a troop of unicorns topped everything off. Alison Little started Rags Boutique workshops over a decade ago as part of Bold Street…

  Alison Little

  May 17, 2019

  Art, Blackpool, Eco warrior, Ethical, Family, Green Credentials, Leisure time, Liverpool, Rags Boutique, Recycle, Recycling, Regeneration, Renewal, Revive, Rubbish, Southport, Southport Festival, Uncategorized

• Love of the Second Hand

  The book was beautifully bound, in impeccable condition and filled with the love of being read and enjoyed. Modern publishing of the classic ‘Arabian Nights’ I had the audio version, or what you used to call tapes when I had been a child. My brother and I had been passed them on from our cousin…

  Alison Little

  December 29, 2018

  Arabian Nights, Beauty, Charity, Christmas, Family, Female Icons, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Liverpool, Presents, Smithdown Road, Uncategorized, Vulva, Women’s Right

• Ensigns make a mark at the Museum

  Last Saturday saw a line of children and adults, tots and basically those mortal getting involved with the fun of flag making. The last weekend of the Liverpool Irish Festival took the Rags Boutique workshop to the contemporary interior to the Museum of Liverpool. A wonderful day spent with a colourful bag recycling project on…

  Alison Little

  November 3, 2018

  Art, Bio-degrade, Celebration, Eco warrior, Engagement, Family, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Liverpool, Recycle, Recycling, Red, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• Cardboard Castles

  Are you king of your cardboard castle? Castles were strong fortresses built to withstand invasion. Saxon Castles were wooden structures, mounds of earth now, grassy peaks protruding from the ground level. Still standing up as always but no longer fit for purpose. The middle ages saw the use of stone to create strongholds were the…

  Alison Little

  August 17, 2018

  Art, Biennial, Biennial Independents, Bio-degrade, Card Board, Card Board City, Castle, Celebration, Conflict, Eco warrior, Ethical, Family, Green, Green Credentials, Installation, Leisure time, Liverpool, Mental Health, Narcotics, Plastic Gangster, Recycle, Recycling, Rubbish, Sandcastles, Sculpture, Street Drinker, Uncategorized, Waste Product

• Beauty is Truth

  Beauty is Truth is a flash fiction piece written in response to the famous line from John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn. Explicit content to be expected. The Sister in Law I look at her and I see no beauty. I see a woman haggard, prematurely aged and sinful in her ways. Fat encases…

  Alison Little

  April 20, 2018

  Affair, Beauty, Conflict, death, Family, Fanny Flaps, Fat encased, Female Icons, Germaine Geer, John Keates, Misshaped Bosom, Plus Size, Relationships, Sinful, Suffrage Movement, The Female Eunuch, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• A-Z of Amazing Women

  A-Z of Amazing Women is the new range of prints from Alison Little. The main print takes us through a range of iconic women alphabetically, these are combined with a range of prints of individual women with short statements. She Talks us through why she selected the women for the new range: Anne Frank   …

  Alison Little

  April 6, 2018

  Alphabet, American Dream, Ariana Grande, Art, Celebrity Culture, Child Star, Devil, Family, Female Icons, Feminist Art, fiction, Film, Liverpool, Prints, Suffrage Movement, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• Virginia Woolf and the Hours

  The Hours Three Women, One day. Michael Cunningham’ novel, The Hours and the movie version, Directed by Stephen Daldry, gives a very accurate portrayal of Virginia Woolf beginning with her final act: suicide. The narrative intertwines the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown an unhappy housewife in 1950’s Loss Angeles and Clarissa Vaughan…

  Alison Little

  January 12, 2018

  Affair, Aids, American Dream, Bi Sexual, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Family, Film, High School, House Wife, John Everett Millais, Lesbianism, Los Angeles, Mental Health, Morality, Mrs Dalloway, New York City, Pre Raphaelite, River Ouse, Same Sex Relationships, Servants, Sex, shcizophrenia, Social Roles, Suicide, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf, Women’s Right

• Consequential

  Consequential is the final chapter of Casual Nexus, the novel being written by Alison Little, this is an extract from the chapter. The characters and events are not based on real people or occurrences. Bea Richards has also heard about the exhibition which Sal had got work into earlier in the week. Like Kate, she…

  Alison Little

  January 5, 2018

  Affair, Aristocracy, Art, Beauty, Casual Sex, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Failing, Family, fiction, Jellousy, Leg over, Leisure time, Lies, Police, Police Women, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Violence, Self pity, Senior Police Officer, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Uncategorized