What follows is Brock Thompson’s excellent summary of Eve Sedgwick’s article ‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’ and he wrote it because the APA was again revisiting its assessment of gender and Ray Blanchard had become the new Dr Evil. I republished this in 2009 and re-read it today […]
Category: Topical Comment
As an opinionated woman I, from time to time, express my opinions …
e iti noa ana, na te aroha *
For Cushla There is so much space Between me And the sky In every way Less between us That heart of yours Sends shockwaves Sun blasts from the sky Heats the back Pacifies Drawn deep from the belly Of Papatuanuku You are wild You are Full of storm You are the eye of your own […]
Omoiyari ~ take time to really care about others
A Seido karate meditation by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura, founder of World Seido Karate Organisation, from the book: Karate ~ Technique and Spirit by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura. I often use this meditation as it really speaks to me. Osu! I want to concentrate on the word omoiyari which means thoughtfulness, sincere thoughtfulness. It means caring: caring for […]
Akróstichis #1 ~ The Enchantment
For she who is embedded in the text … Smiling Even (at least sometimes) in the wrong places Magic ~ I doubt you own up to that ~ Played out in All your silent tongues In all the dialects we both may anguish over Forgotten by morning Indiscrete nights/discourse denied Objuration unspoken/agreed? Not, it would […]
An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none of the […]
Rosemary ~ That’s For Remembrance
A reflection on Shakespeare’s old home town … The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate, and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the afternoon of the first […]
Girls are from Gaia, Boys are from Penis ~ the truth about gender difference as might have been mooted by Tiresias
It’s all about sex. Like, you didn’t know that. Not sexuality, not gender, but simple fucking. You knew that too, didn’t you? You just don’t like to admit that it’s something so primitive ~ so without love, so without affection, so without … meaning. Fucking, of course, is never that simple. Why? Because we, as […]
‘A Copy is a Copy if it Looks Like a Copy’
Below is an essay I wrote for one of my master’s law papers: Yvette Lawrence is an artist. In 2000, Yvette, whose specialist genre is photo-realism, painted a work depicting two figures, one male and one female, seated on a slat bench and holding eight large Alasatian puppies, four each. Yvette sold this work to […]
From Stag to Hard-Core ~ How The Genre Evolved
Observations ~ Probably the most significant developments in the evolution from stag to hard-core film relate to the move to full-length, feature complete with colour, sound and cohesive narrative along with the shift to an ending that enabled the audience to ‘withdraw satisfied’. The hard-core form became more sophisticated as the technological and philosophical move […]
Conventions for Representing Sex in ‘Last Tango in Paris’ and ‘Deep Throat’
Observations ~ ‘Last Tango in Paris’ represents sex in a conventional mainstream 1972 European art house style but ‘pushes the envelope’ of the genre by introducing edgy, dark content such as the digital anal penetration of Paul, the butter-assisted sodomising of Jeanne and the final public ‘handjob’. The gaze appears to be neutral or male […]
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