Tag: culture

Cultural messages perpetuate myth violence is sexy

A female teacher at a Tasmanian school where I spoke on the objectification of women could not stay to hear the end of my talk. The images I showed were too confronting, bringing back traumas suffered two decades ago. ”The very acts that have become part of my trauma were there on display as a […]

So decapitated women are fine with you Kanye West?

I’ll take mine dead, thanks. Horror porn is not ironic. [Trigger warning for victims of violence] When you look at this image, what do you see? An ambigious, complicated narrative? A post-modern analysis of culture? A man who loves his mothers and sistas? And what about this one? Do you see poetic form? Linear narrative […]