Category: Women’s Right
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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 -
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 -
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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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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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
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 -
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…
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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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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…
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