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Scrapbooking men's intrusions: ‘It's nice to have a place where you can rant about things that people normally tell you you're over-reacting about’
No full textThis article presents an in-depth study of eight women's experiences and conceptions of men's intrusions in the UK. ‘Men's intrusions’ is posited here as a useful concept for exploring a lived continuum of men's practices in and across digital, online and offline space. Typically, research on men's intrusions has focused on specific and bounded space, neglecting the interrelation and collapse of sites and spaces into each other. This paper addresses this omission and finds that participants experienced a wide range of complex, multi-faceted intrusions, all unique, but sharing the common characteristics of being simultaneously unexpected and continuous, and of imposing gendered-self-awareness with lasting negative effect. In the process of making sense of their experiences, participants adopted different frames for conceptualising men's intrusions, three of which were identified: an individual frame, a grey frame and feminist frame/s. This sense-making process was largely facilitated by the activity of scrapbooking; the research used analogue and digital scrapbooking methodologically to represent diverse intrusions occurring across diverse mediums. The findings have implications for both developing and complicating understandings of the continuum of men's violence against women and also for diversifying feminist research approaches to gender, space and violence
Scrapbooking the Everyday Scaffolding of Sexual Violence: Making Sense of ‘Rape Culture’
No full textFeminist attention to the cultural causes of sexual violence has assumed many forms and debates, with the concept of ‘rape culture’ taking hold in the 1970s and being reinvigorated today. This thesis explores these debates to arrive at its unique conceptualisation of the ‘everyday scaffolding’ of sexual violence. Everyday scaffolding refers to the discursive practices – situated and material ways in which knowledges are formed – through which sexual violence becomes possible and intelligible. Designing an innovative research practice of scrapbooking, this thesis establishes these scaffolds in the lives of its participant scrapbookers; twenty-three adults with unwanted sexual experiences and one UK Rape Crisis centre. Scrapbooking involves saving, organising and sharing ‘scraps’ from everyday life, a potentially enjoyable, therapeutic and consciousness-raising practice.
Paying attention to queer, post-structuralist and feminist new materialist thinkers, this research organises scraps from participants’ books and relevant literatures into four scaffolds. Firstly, ‘Conflation and Marginalisation’: where the bringing together and confusing of often contentious sexual matters naturalises and obscures sexual violence, as does the drawing of different boundaries to separate sexual violence out. Secondly, ‘Spectacularisation’: discursive practices by which sexual violence is constituted as a spectacle, a dramatic event cut out from everyday life, with particular audiences in mind. Thirdly, ‘Catching Out’: discursive practices which establish a ‘truth’ beneath a ‘lie’ in need of unmasking, connecting sexual violence to all manner of ‘corrective’ activities. Finally, ‘Weaponisation’: sexual violence as a means towards particular and harmful ends; to further divisive politics, to facilitate sexual access, and to naturalise ‘vulnerability’. These four scaffolds are presented in order to both name and change sexual violence in ways which work with the ambiguity and potentiality of the everyday, the necessity for continuum-thinking and the reality of the research’s own performative involvement in the worlds or ‘rape cultures’ it claims to make sense of
Support Available to People With Learning Disabilities Who Experience Sexual Violence - A Systematic Review
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‘There are a lot of bad dominants, mostly men, where it’s basically abuse dressed up as a kink’: Victim-survivors’ everyday navigation of BDSM, kink and fetish
No full textConcerns about the legal landscape of BDSM are being reinvigorated today through public attention to the issue of ‘rough sex’ defences for homicide and abuse. Victim-survivors have orientated around the language of ‘rough sex’ to express concerns about practices across a variety of contexts, from established BDSM relationships to casual heterosex. As such, this paper provides victim-survivors’ everyday navigation of activities and languages around BDSM, kink and fetish. It finds the following key themes as being crucial to participants’ understandings of safe and satisfying practice: (a) communication and recognition of agentic others; (b) community learning and accountability; and (c) being playful and bounded, but not too bounded. This paper presents these as a call to understand how some ‘rough sex’ defences not only excuse or obscure abusive practices but also stigmatise and marginalise certain BDSM, kink and fetish practitioners and communities.</p
‘There are a lot of bad dominants, mostly men, where it’s basically abuse dressed up as a kink’: Victim-survivors’ everyday navigation of BDSM, kink and fetish
No full textConcerns about the legal landscape of BDSM are being reinvigorated today through public attention to the issue of ‘rough sex’ defences for homicide and abuse. Victim-survivors have orientated around the language of ‘rough sex’ to express concerns about practices across a variety of contexts, from established BDSM relationships to casual heterosex. As such, this paper provides victim-survivors’ everyday navigation of activities and languages around BDSM, kink and fetish. It finds the following key themes as being crucial to participants’ understandings of safe and satisfying practice: (a) communication and recognition of agentic others; (b) community learning and accountability; and (c) being playful and bounded, but not too bounded. This paper presents these as a call to understand how some ‘rough sex’ defences not only excuse or obscure abusive practices but also stigmatise and marginalise certain BDSM, kink and fetish practitioners and communities.</p
The life and Story of Rosa Maria:Brazil's First Black Author
No full textThirty years after the release of Rosa Maria Egipcíaca's biography by Brazilian historian LuizMott in 1993, one of Rio de Janeiro's strongest carnival samba schools, Unidos do Viradouro, finally brought her name into Brazilian mainstream culture. Rosa Maria is Brazil's first black author, having written a book and letters of prophecy. Her story is global in both space and time. In her journey, Rosa traversed three different continents - Africa, South America and Europe - interconnected by the colonial ties of transatlantic slavery and Catholicism, and though she lived in the eighteenth century, her 'afterlife' extends until today, as will be described through the context of Brazil's carnival
Sub Rosa
No full textIn this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart. Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is known as "Little," a teenaged runaway unable to remember her real name; in her struggle to get by in the world, she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing girls and would-be johns: a place called Sub Rosa. Not long after she is initiated into this family of magical prostitutes, Little is called upon to lead Sub Rosa through a maze of feral darkness, both real and imagined--a calling burdened with grotesque enemies, strange allies, and memories from a foggy past.
Written with a kind of gasping urgency, Sub Rosa is a beautiful and gutsy allegory of our times, a fairy-tale-like fantasia imbued with a grave, unapologetic realness. --From publisher description.Women's literatureFictionLGBTQ+Lesbian literatur
FILOSOFO NEL DIPINGERE:SALVATOR ROSA TRA ROMA E FIRENZE (1639-1659)
No full textSi tratta della prima mostra italiana sul celebre artista Salvator Rosa, nato a Napoli nel 1615 e morto a Roma nel 1673. Alla mostra l’autrice ha collaborato come comitato scientifico, come redattrice di numerose schede, e come autrice di un corposo saggio sull’attività dell’artista a Firenze negli anni Quaranta del Seicento e a Roma negli anni Cinquanta. Ricco di materiale inedito, frutto di lunghe ricerche condotte dalla studiosa sull’importante artista, il saggio restituisce la figura del Rosa pittore, poeta e protagonista di una svolta artistica e culturale di metà Seicento che prelude già all’arte del secolo successivo. This is the first exhibition dedicated to the famous painter Salvator Rosa in Italy. Born in Neaple in 1615 he died in Rome in 1673. The author, that was studying the artist’s oeuvre and biography since many years, worked on the exhibition with many entries and was part of the scientific committee. She wrote also a big chapter on the activity of the painter in Florence, during the 1640th, and in Rome during the 1650th. Rich in unpublished material, the essay gives us a new idea on the biography and artistic production of Salvator Rosa painter and poet, leading artist of the turning point between Seventeenth and Eighteen Century
Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception
No full textRosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many political and social reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly in the Global South, there seems to exist a stronger interest in Luxemburg’s work today, which is not surprising at all, considering that many problems she thought about are still existent – especially there. The participants of the International Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Bodø, Norway, in March 2023, discussed her role in the 21st century in quite some detail. The present anthology contains the conference’s extended proceedings and particularly focuses on two important elements in regard to Luxemburg: Her role for and within the global ›periphery‹ and her ›perception‹ in relation to other intellectuals, social democracy or the political left in a broader sense of the spectrum
Rosa Gauditano - a mesma luta = Rosa Gauditano - the same struggle
No full textThe photobook "A Mesma Luta" (The Same Fight) comprises 25 black and white photographs of social movements in São Paulo from 1978 to 1984. Photographer Rosa Gauditano (São Paulo, Brasil 1955) documented the ABC strikes, the Custo de Vida (Cost of Living) movement, women's demonstrations such as the murder of Eliane de Grammount, SOS Mulher, the 3 Congresses of the Paulista Woman, the protest of the Mothers of The Plaza de Mayo, the first demonstrations of the Unified Black Movement and the demonstration against the murder of the metallurgist Santo Dias by the police. The edition of this work is focused on this women's struggles and its important role for the change of Brazilian society that culminated in the end of the dictatorship from Diretas Já. Author Rosa Gauditano began her career as a photographer in the 1970s, working for small printing houses from the Imprensa Nanica (journalists who wrote against the ideas of the dictatorship, it was so called because few were the ones who dared to write something against the government given the strong repression), taht include Versus, Movimento and Em Tempo. Later she worked as a hired photographer for Folha de São Paulo and Veja magazine until she founded Studio R where she continues to work to this day
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