Category: Sexual Parteners
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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 -
Mrs Trump
Although Mrs Trump and other characters in the narrative are real, this is strictly a fiction works and the actions and events are not based on real life. Mrs Trump gazes over the silver-framed Wedding photo they have positioned on the intricacies of their mantelpiece. The happy day: a falsehood, like herself, a manufactured…
Alison Little
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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
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 -
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
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…
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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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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…
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Hand-Held Destinies
Wednesday evening saw the opening of; John Moores Painting Prize, the Rise of the Sixties in Liverpool, at the Exhibition Research Lab of John Moores University. The fresh white interior of the John Lennon Art and Design Building provided the exhibition venue, brought to life by an evening of the performance. Stimulating music, spoken word…
Alison Little
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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
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