Posts Tagged ‘Art’

handle it

We have an interview with Laura about her play on this episode.

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This time we’re joined by Laura Jackson, an actor and feminist playwright. She discusses her play ‘Handle It’ and its feminist themes, art and social change, nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence being shared without her consent, the feminist campaign against sexist “pick up artist” Julien Blanc, and Tracy Spicer’s Ted Talk ‘The Lady Stripped Bare’. You can find out more about the play by checking out the Facebook event page and you can buy tickets here. If you can’t make it along to the play, you can still support the project by donating to its Pozible campaign. We also encourage people to have a look at Laura’s website, as well as following her on Twitter @LaurayJackson and liking her Facebook page.

We also discuss gender and the G20, kids toys and Australia’s shitty (mainstream) media.

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Clips:

Lily Allen ‘Hard Out Here’ – you can read an article on the racist aspects of the film clip for this song at battymamzelle.blogspot.co.uk, Austin PowersMichael JacksonPrivacy’, Interview with Laura Jackson, Auckland Law RevueRobin Thicke – Blurred Lines [Feminist Parody] Defined Lines’.

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of our interview with Laura Jackson, here: A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Feminism Go Down. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

The image above is from the One Billion Rising event in India and it is featured on the One Billion Rising website.

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In this one Nick is flying (Han) solo, or at least without Katie. He is joined by Nicole, one of the organisers from the Perth One Billion Rising event, for the entire episode. One Billion Rising is a global event that aims to have ‘one billion women releasing their stories, dancing and speaking at the places where they need justice, where they need an end to violence against women and girls’. You can find your closest One Billion Rising event here.

This episode covers a lack of media attention given to these issues, a discussion on some criticisms of the One Billion Rising movement, this year’s focus on Indigenous and disabled victims of violence, art and social change, slut shaming, rape culture, why the Perth event is open to everyone and has all vegan food, Reclaim the Night, and the movement against female genital mutilation. You can hear our episode that covered last year’s One Billion Rising event here.

Update: we discuss some of our experiences at our local One Billion Rising event and play some talks from it on our 47th episode.

Clips:

Joan JettBad Reputation’, Not rightMy Body’.

Images from the CAS conference

The images above feature some of the speakers from the conference (from left to right): Livia Boscardin, Nick Pendergrast, Carolina Trivino and Madison Bycroft. These photos were taken by Katinka Von Luken.

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This episode is all about The Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania 2013 Conference: Animal Liberation and Social Justice, an Intersectional Approach to Social Change. We discuss a bunch of talks from the conference and also play some. We discuss Madison Kate Bycroft’s talk ‘The-animal-stalks-at-five-o’clock: Becoming a new human-animal through sculpture’ and Carolina Trivino’s talk ‘Animal activism in Colombia’. We play Jess Ison’s talk ‘Happy Meat and roaming factory hens: the new neoliberal animal rights’, Livia Boscardin’s talk ‘Our common future’ – developing a non-speciesist, critical theory of sustainability’ (you can view the powerpoint for Livia’s talk here), and Nick’s talk ‘Veganism Enters the Mainstream’ (you can view the powerpoint for Nick’s talk here). You can see links to a whole lot more talks below, which you can listen to online. You can see photos from the conference here (thanks to Katinka Von Luken), including photos of Ghost the dog! Other topics covered on this episode are: Sentience Art Exhibition, racism and animal experimentation in Aotearoa, A Poultry Place no kill sanctuary, Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, our 20th episode that gave practical advice on living vegan, The Vegan Easy Challenge, Team Earthling animal rights podcast, and “hooning” on bikes.

Clips:

Naj OneNew Dawn Breaking’, Anti-FlagRight On’, LowkeyMy Soul’, Jess IsonHappy Meat and roaming factory hens: the new neoliberal animal rights’, Livia BoscardinOur common future’ – developing a non-speciesist, critical theory of sustainability’, Austin Powers, Nick PendergrastVeganism Enters the Mainstream’, Antagonist AD ‘Show Some Heart (Go Vegan)’.

More Talks that were Recorded at the Conference*:

Colin Salter ‘Animals and War’, Walter Kudrycz ‘Emotional Rescue: Ethics and Animal Liberation’, Steve Garlic ‘Environmental Sustainability, Cognitive Justice, and the Kangaroo‘, Helen Marston ‘A Vicious Circle‘, Frankie Seymour ‘Slavery and Liberation: Implications of Human History for the Emancipation of Animals’, Wilma Davidson ‘Animal Rights – From a Quaker’s Perspective’.

*There are more talks from this conference linked to in the show notes above. If any of the speakers would like any changes to the way you or your talk is described, or would like any edits to the audio of your talk, or would like to send us your powerpoint so we can link to it, please contact us.