Category: Relationships

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Nicknames

  Love them or hate them! A sense of endearment or a form of mockery? I look back through mine, first, there was ‘Ali’ from ‘Alison’, an obvious shortening first used by my elder brother who was struggling to pronounce my full name. On a week in Ross and Wye with my Primary School class lead…

  Alison Little

  March 8, 2019

  Barbie, Batty Boy, Bell-End, Bhatti, Bleach Blond, Chemical-Ali, Chewy, Dougal, McScab, Narcotics, Nick Names, Penelope Pit Stop, Relationships, Sticky Vicky, Uncategorized

• The Police and Consent

  Earlier in the week we were presented with an array of news articles over children to be taught about the nature of consent in school. This extract from the novel Casual Nexus tackles issues around consensual and the Police. All evens and characters are fictional and not based on real life. The Chief Constable in…

  Alison Little

  March 1, 2019

  Alter Ego, Casual Sex, Consent, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Greasy Hair, Leg over, Manipulation, Non-Consentual Sex, Police, Police corruption, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Senior Police Officer, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Third wave feminism, Uncategorized, Warped, Women’s Right

• A Letter to your Former Self

  ‘A Letter to your former self’ was a prompt for a sketch. It comprises of a mixed media image, pen and ink in addition to hard and soft pastels which are fully exploited. The figure representing the artist is almost angelic as it rises above the dangers of the personalities depicted below. The people are…

  Alison Little

  February 22, 2019

  4th of July, Abstract Art, Alter Ego, American Dream, Art, Beauty, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, death, Devil, Disorder, Evil, Funeral, Greasy Hair, Lies, Maine County, Morality, New England, New York City, Police Women, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Rise Above, Senior Police Officer, Uncategorized, Witch

• Remember your Thong Collection

  Who was in their late teens, earlier twenties at the turn of the Millennium? Remember your thong collection! The underwear which stamped our generation of alpha females. We lead the way for third wave feminism with our underwear which really did show off our bums. The first wave of feminism lead by Emmeline Pankhurst got…

  Alison Little

  January 11, 2019

  Aids, Bums, Casual Sex, Female Icons, Fetish, Morality, Relationships, Second wavw feminism, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Social Roles, Suffrage Movement, The Eighties, Third wave feminism, Thong, Uncategorized, Women’s Right