Category: Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road

• I must be Miss Liverpool!

  I must be Miss Liverpool! We are seated, lined up, eventually at the final of Miss Liverpool. The seats of the room arched around, judges desks empty for now. They have demobbed to a side room, making the final, ultimate, life-changing decision. I must be Miss Liverpool! It’s taken me four years to get here,…

  Alison Little

  May 24, 2019

  Alder Hey, Alter Ego, Barbie, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, Celebrity Culture, Conflict, Conquering, Degrading, Delluded, Disorder, Domineering, End of Innocence, False, Female Icons, Flash Fiction, Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road, Light Night Liverpool, Liverpool, Miss Liverpool, re-coil, Reading, Self pity, Sick, Sinful, Uncategorized, WAG, Want to be WAG, Women’s Right

• Do we need a Miss Liverpool?

  The ritualistic process of crowning a Miss Liverpool is an annual event in the city of Liverpool. Initially, relating to the ancient custom of Marriage, the ball-like gown paraded by the contestants often being the traditional white. The notion of a maiden passing of age is also conjured up by the generation of the contestants,…

  Alison Little

  February 1, 2019

  American Dream, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, Casual Sex, Celebrity Culture, Child Pageanting, Croxteth Hall Park, Degrading, Female Icons, Germaine Geer, Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road, Leisure time, Liverpool, Male gaze, Miss Liverpool, Morality, Photography, Plus Size, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Violence, Same Sex Relationships, Sexualization of Children, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Violation, Virginity