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The exhibition
Balloons, torn paper and plastic bags in a display case. Lettered balloons on the wall which spelt out ‘squeeze me’. Some pubes in a plastic- bra and knickers hanging from a coat hanger. Photographs of the dummy Kars was to occasionally lie on during performance. Several dozen photos of the artiste topless or about to lift up her jumper (oo-er). Or sometimes taped.
Art which made us think; even we could do that.
Stockton went off on her ‘reading is like a kiss’ vein again, sometimes reading is like kissing your uncle. You can also penetrate someone with words. Were such thoughts offensive to asex(ual) people though? When I say ‘cat’ to you, your mind has to ‘birth’ the idea of a cat, what is left over is mystical. Roland Barthes eat your heart out.
To prove that some women and some feminists are actually indeed horrible, Lewis put up a slide which included two photos of Posie Parker (aka Kellie Jay Keen), including the time she and Julia Long confronted the HRC spokesman, Sarah McBride, in Washington DC, incorrectly stating that their trip was funded by the Heritage Foundation. (That someone could still be harping on about this very minor episode five years later is really rather petty, even Kathleen ‘they turned back feminism 20 years’ Stock stopped two years ago.) Lewis had been commissioned to write a piece about trans exclusionary radical feminists at that time, in January 2019, as Americans did not know anything about terfs, and Lewis, having lived in the UK and in the US for several years, was perfectly placed to explain to the yanks that ‘no nonsense anti-utopianism prevailed on terf island’, though ‘anti-trans feminism wasn’t universal,’ she consoled the assembled pro-trans students and academics.
Fun but not educational. Contains spoilers. The blurby bit In the face of global food shortages, humans need to re-examine our food sources. One presenting itself as
I listened into this webinar just out of interest, the ‘abolition movement’ isn’t strictly my niche, however I was disturbed enough by what they had to say to feel it worth posting about. If you didn’t know, abolitionists want to destroy all policing services and remove punishments for criminals, though for some time they have been scratching their heads how to square this aim with their adjacent cosily-named ‘gender-based violence’ schtick. As we all know, the crimes of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence, are overwhelmingly committed by men, with women largely the victims. To solve some of the problems around this issue, the UK prison abolitionist squad has developed a booklet to shove at people when anyone might question them about why they felt someone like Wayne Couzens should escape the criminal justice system.
The Chronic Youth Film Festival is curated by the Barbican Young Film Programmers, whose intake apparently changes on a yearly basis. I suppose that avoids anyone getting -gasp- old. The two young women who presented the screening looked as if they were early-twenties, so not that young. Not proper Village of the Damned anyway. A young man with a camera crouched nearby, snapping away, as they gave their introductory speech, stood stiffly together, no doubt having flashbacks to prefecture and assemblies.
The Lies They Tell 
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