Category: Feminism
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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
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
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 -
Recycled Tampons + er, do I have to?
So you’ve moved with the green revolution: recycling, re-using carrier bags and you endeavour to sort waste for compost. Due to lock-down you’ve reduced use of the vehicle and invested more time to walking and cycling. The next step: they want us girls to use re-cycled tampons, your first thought? Someone else’s discharge! ew…ew…ew.…
Alison Little
accidents, Bio-degrade, Charity, Covid-19, Decay, Degrading, Discharge, Female Icons, Feminine Hygiene, Feminism, Fertility, Green Credentials, Greenery, Humanitarian, Lock-down, Period, Pre-menstraul, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Sanitary produce, Tampon, Uncategorized, Waste Product, Women’s Right -
The Eternal I
Explicit content warning The Eternal I I am the all I am the only I am an example for others I am all that matters I am my ultimate muse Standing, average size in height. Pleasant facial features, nothing extraordinary, a relatively forgettable portrait shot. Plastered on layers of make-up, a full face, foundation, powder…
Alison Little
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Convict Blanket
Convict blanket is the latest art activism works from concept-based arts practitioner, Alison Little. A sensation to shock and stand against rape, rape culture and the authorities put in place to tackle sex crime within our society. Convict blanket confronts us with the homage style of using material available, in this case, the humble scratch…
Alison Little
Art, Barbie, Captivity, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Crack, Crack whore, Degrading, Delluded, Disorder, Embroidery, End of Innocence, Fear, Feminism, Feminist Art, Heroin, HMP, Male gaze, Male Rape, Mental Health, Morality, Narcotics, Non-consensual sex, Police, Police corruption, Police Women, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Senior Police Officer, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sinful, Slut Shaming, Social Roles, Social unrest, Textiles, Uncategorized, Victim Blaming, 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…
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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
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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
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 -
A Respectable Woman
A Respectable Woman is the latest poem penned by Alison Little around the theme of Truth for National Poetry Day 2019. It was performed by Alison at the Life Rooms in Walton and for Sefton Slams at Crosby Library. A Respectable Woman Respectable, woman I am Married, my working man Toddler hand, baby in…
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