in response to rachel and zaza
Rachel
Hi there, what can I say...
Firstly, I have never mentioned - I thought your video work at wysing was powerful and if developed in the week whilst there I remain amazed and look forward to seeing some more of your art work.
Furthermore, I sympathise, if that comes across as patronising do not take it to be. I feel we live in the same world. this kind of abuse goes on across both genders. I been aware of this situation on the side of male prostitution and pornography whilst travelling the globe. having been offered young male escorts in developing countries all in the pledge of "he needs to support his family". One only has to read both the underground press and consume mainstream media to hear how the LGBT communities suffer from societies hands across the globe.
In my life I have seen/read about homophobic violence. Hangings in North Africa for being Gay. Murders, GBH and bombings in the LGBT community in this country. I have often looked at the missing persons list in many countries to see the amount of young women and men that are still unaccounted for. Recently there has been media coverage regarding sexual abuse and violence in this countries own residential care homes. What of the news about representatives in this country having committed acts of genocide across the globe.
I could ramble forever...
what saddens me is that we can hold on to this anger but I ask the question "ARE WE ALL NOT RESPONSIBLE IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER?" Here we are using the blog as a means of communication adding to the global warming situation; sitting in our boxes of carbon consumption surrounded in unnecessary ephemera and a huge lump of plastic and poisonous toxins near our fingertips. Humanity is raping the planet... much as you describe in your text about prostitution and pornography. We are all responsible for the use of oil, drugs (both pharmaceutical/recreational) chemicals, nuclear waste etc
I ask here do we not all in a sense prostitute ourselves. We desire to be artists, to be known, to be involved in one way or another. This conversation means we're selling ourselves to capitalism/mass consumerism
Your anti consumerism carols made me smile. We rant abpout consumerism, then we use a video to document the process and then put it on the world wide web. This is mass consumption buying into it's capitalists market while the fat cats that benefit sit there in glee rubbing their hands with the cash that we are expending.
My last poem on the blog are my feelings in lesser words. Society as a whole seems to have to alienate for many different reasons.
Zaza, you write well about Franko's talk, few words but powerfully edited. I enjoy our conversations about BDSM and other matters; your poetry moves me and makes me think and if it is to come with performance... I look forward to seeing/reading more.
To both of you and the rest of the group (06/07) I have enjoyed my time so far and feel that joining the scheme has already begun to achieve what i hoped...
To be fired up by a group of like minded individuals who use the arts in all of it's genre as a way of communicating in general.
Hi there, what can I say...
Firstly, I have never mentioned - I thought your video work at wysing was powerful and if developed in the week whilst there I remain amazed and look forward to seeing some more of your art work.
Furthermore, I sympathise, if that comes across as patronising do not take it to be. I feel we live in the same world. this kind of abuse goes on across both genders. I been aware of this situation on the side of male prostitution and pornography whilst travelling the globe. having been offered young male escorts in developing countries all in the pledge of "he needs to support his family". One only has to read both the underground press and consume mainstream media to hear how the LGBT communities suffer from societies hands across the globe.
In my life I have seen/read about homophobic violence. Hangings in North Africa for being Gay. Murders, GBH and bombings in the LGBT community in this country. I have often looked at the missing persons list in many countries to see the amount of young women and men that are still unaccounted for. Recently there has been media coverage regarding sexual abuse and violence in this countries own residential care homes. What of the news about representatives in this country having committed acts of genocide across the globe.
I could ramble forever...
what saddens me is that we can hold on to this anger but I ask the question "ARE WE ALL NOT RESPONSIBLE IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER?" Here we are using the blog as a means of communication adding to the global warming situation; sitting in our boxes of carbon consumption surrounded in unnecessary ephemera and a huge lump of plastic and poisonous toxins near our fingertips. Humanity is raping the planet... much as you describe in your text about prostitution and pornography. We are all responsible for the use of oil, drugs (both pharmaceutical/recreational) chemicals, nuclear waste etc
I ask here do we not all in a sense prostitute ourselves. We desire to be artists, to be known, to be involved in one way or another. This conversation means we're selling ourselves to capitalism/mass consumerism
Your anti consumerism carols made me smile. We rant abpout consumerism, then we use a video to document the process and then put it on the world wide web. This is mass consumption buying into it's capitalists market while the fat cats that benefit sit there in glee rubbing their hands with the cash that we are expending.
My last poem on the blog are my feelings in lesser words. Society as a whole seems to have to alienate for many different reasons.
Zaza, you write well about Franko's talk, few words but powerfully edited. I enjoy our conversations about BDSM and other matters; your poetry moves me and makes me think and if it is to come with performance... I look forward to seeing/reading more.
To both of you and the rest of the group (06/07) I have enjoyed my time so far and feel that joining the scheme has already begun to achieve what i hoped...
To be fired up by a group of like minded individuals who use the arts in all of it's genre as a way of communicating in general.
posted by jon at 10:40 am
2 Comments:
Hi Jon,
Thank you for your response to my post :) I'm tired now but i'd like to respond to you properly so i'll make time in the next day or two.
thanks
Rachel
Hi rachel,
I have re-read your blog on the abuse of women. Here I also offer up for discussion...
In the heterosexual pornography scene all that you have spoken about has been deemed acceptable for decades in the layout of "the pose". Gay pornograhy remained underground for decades due to Laws and Regulations.
Unfortunatley we still live in an environment where a lot of male abuse goes unreported and therefore undocumented. I have friends whom still live ashamed of themselves due to the sexual preference; afraid of their families/societies reaction due to their religious upbringing.
I know of guys in the gay community that are so afraid of speaking out to the authorities about their experiences in fear of retribution and death threats.
There are young guys out there who are so vunerable and being taken into the den of inequity. These young guys are often runaways having been bullied in the school/home and society for being gay and therefore being different.
I experienced first hand in my youth some of what you speak about in Female pornography. I thought I was in a relationship where I was to be loved and protected... this was not to be; Physical abuse, violence and being forced into situations that I had no control over... Tied down with a mortgage over my head and certainly none of the support groups that are available today. I was only 20 when all this was happening.
I was frightened of my neighbourhoods reaction and retribution.
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