Posts Tagged with ‘gaze’
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The proliferation of sexwork
01 Jul 2012
I went to a really good session at a dayschool ran by the ISG yesterday on sexual commodification and socialism, ran by one of their new organisers. Feminism and socialism have always been uneasy bedfellows since the start of the second wave, where the personal got political and the political …
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Rape: Eyes, Laws and Codes
04 Feb 2012
It was Germaine Greer who said that women never really know how much men hate them. Thanks to the internet we're starting to find out, as "banter" comes out of the backrooms and spews itself over the web. Unilad has just been shut down after it pointed out approvingly that …
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The Skeleton: A Cautionary Tale
31 Oct 2011
It had all been a mistake she knew that now. It seemed so obvious back then. It was her first wart that had made up her mind. She had known it was coming; she could feel it emerge, but it wasn’t until a devil pointed it out that she realised …
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GUST is… sexist
14 Oct 2011
Glagow University Student Television have produced a promo video. That's promo not porno, but someone obviously misread the brief. Much consternation has been caused on their facebook page among female students over the contents and style of the video. The response from GUST has been almost as stunning as the …
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Inclusion, Call-outs & the Gaze
08 Oct 2011
Privilege manifests itself in all kinds of different ways. People are brought up with notions of what is right and proper and oftentimes these notions include deeply biased value systems. Each generation battles the ideas of the one before, the one that brought them up both collectively and individually. Sometimes …