Today my comic on my blog (and in The Cambridge Student) is pole-dancing-related, so I thought I’d post it here as well. Nothing serious.
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The right-wing media frenzy over ‘violent student protestors’ of late is an issue that is, for me, tied inextricably to the oppression of women in our society. The voice of neo-conservatism that questions what right women have to be angry about gender inequality in the current ‘post-feminist’ landscape is the same voice that characterises students attempting to escape kettles and raising their voices against the coalition government as militants bent on stirring things up rather than having any base for their actions. The pseudo-liberal project of being anti the ‘extreme’ is the recurrent trope, and the power relationship implied in the notion of telling someone to ‘calm down’, is made all the more powerful by the mitigating culture of being falsely ‘moderate’, and law-abiding. This is a discourse drafted and promulgated by a white, male, cis-gendered, middle-class patriarchy. Women are, of course, often complicit, but they are one of the largest sectors of society to be censored by this masculine liberalism, which all too often appropriates the language of oppression to further bolster a societal status that has become hegemonic. Continue reading
“A long story of why I currently have one hairy leg”
From the age of 12 or 13 to the age of 17 or 18, I wasted a lot of energy in concern over body hair, on my legs and armpits. There are hours of my teenage life, gone forever, spent experimenting with a range of more or less inefficient methods of removal, and far more hours warped by my concern over this incredibly trivial matter. The standard distaste for my body that is somehow normal for teenage girls focussed itself on this particular issue.
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