Category: Rape and Sexual Violence

• 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

• The Green

  The Green is an extract from the novel: Casual Nexus, written by Alison Little, she is looking to publish the novel later in 2020. Stood aback from the green space, intersected by cars negotiating the rather complex one-way system, a moderately plump woman stands, examining an item of jewellery. She has just left the small…

  Alison Little

  February 21, 2020

  Adverse Lifestyle, Affair, Alcoholism, Ale House, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Consent, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Green, Greenery, Leisure time, Non-consensual sex, Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Relationships, Uncategorized

• Toddler Copper

  Toddler Copper is the latest digital artwork from Liverpool based artist Alison Little. February, in the UK, has seen public confidence in the Police Force hit an all-time low. Last week, the Police watchdog warned that faith in the Force is being damaged by rumbled investigations and that less serious crime is simply not being…

  Alison Little

  February 14, 2020

  Degrading, Ethical, Failing, Graphic Art, Police, Police corruption, Police Women, Public confidence, Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Uncategorized, Violation

• 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

• 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

  January 17, 2020

  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

• GHB

  Earlier in the week, we saw the conviction of serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga for a string of sex offences against 48 men, it is believed there were many more attacks. He drugged and filmed his victims during the assaults at his Manchester city-centre flat. His date rape drug of choice: GHB, how more than ever,…

  Alison Little

  January 10, 2020

  Aids, Consent, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Disorder, Humanitarian, Male gaze, Male Rape, Manchester, Morality, Narcotics, Non-Consentual Sex, Off to Uni, Police, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Rape and Sexual Violence, Reynhard Sinaga, Safe Space, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sinful, Trauma, Trial, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin, Victim Blaming, Violation, Warped

• 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

• Stalking>Victim Blaming>Police

  Earlier this week the Police and their treatment of stalking cases hit the national news. This extract is from the fictional novel Casual Nexus in which we see the accumulation the pressures of the main character Sal being constantly stalked.   The art school was open to the public for the two weeks of the…

  Alison Little

  April 12, 2019

  fiction, Police, Police Women, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Quentin Blake, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Stalker, Uncategorized, Victim Blaming, Violation, Women’s Right

• 24 Hour Playwrighting

  The 24 hour hour play is returning to Lark Lane as part of Liverpool Fringe Festival. At 10pm on Friday night, the Old Police station on Lark Lane is aligned with 6 writer, 6 producers and 24 actors. They are grouped together: 1 writer + 4 actors + 1 director We have creative micro clusters…

  Alison Little

  March 22, 2019

  24 hour Play, fiction, Irene Stuart, Leisure time, Liverpool, Liverpool Fringe Festival, Mental Health, Mr Loverman, Non-Consentual Sex, Old Police Station, Play writing, Rape and Sexual Violence, Sleepless, Uncategorized