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I’ve been kind of MIA lately …
However, I have a good reason. I promise.
I read the Body Project (Joan Jacobs Brumberg) a few months ago and it inspired me to start working on an alternative body project. As positive as it is, i’m tired of all the “love your body the way it is” discourse. I don’t think that it is particularly productive. I also think that it just promotes acceptable deviations on the status quo i.e. you might not be thin but your morals and whiteness make you acceptable.
I think alot of the current body positive media and cultural products out there are still just offering us the same idea but just repackaged. This kind of discourse still restricts non normative bodies and sexualities. I’m frustrated with it.
So I decided to get together with some other young feminist to create a body project that makes the invisible, visible. We are looking for a wide variety of poetry, stories, photographs, and other creative pieces that explore the sides of our bodies and sexualities that we don’t talk about. I want to expose the intersections of race, sex, sexuality, (dis)ability, class, age etc. So far i’ve been promised smut written from a feminist s&m perspective, a (dis)ability perspective, from a self proclaimed slut, and from a gay leather perspective. I’m still looking for more pieces that expose the gritty, complex relationship that feminist women or men have with their bodies.
If you have some interesting, intersectional work and would be interested in participating in the project let me know.
http://www.realwomenca.com/page/newslso0901.html
Before I go – I just read this, and right now i’m so angry i’m shaking.
I can not believe that a so called feminist organization would publish such hate. This is disgraceful.
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/PGrated_gay_film_seized_en_route_to_Ottawa_film_fest-7893.aspx
Last weekend was the annual LGBTQ Film Festival in Ottawa. I was planning to go see I Cant Think Straight – a lesbian romance set in the modern middle east. However, Canadian Border Guards seized and held the three of the films, including I Can’t Think Straight, because they deemed them to be obscene. It make me so angry that today, in 2009, queer voices are still being censored, and silenced. It breaks my heart that this still happens. Haven’t we learned anything from the Little Sisters case?
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