... to Mary Emma Hawthorne.
Great collages of what comes a close second to pussy: birds.
Via Anti Magazine.
My 'artistic' contribution to the marriage/civil union/what's it to you anyway debate.
I am thinking of taking up stenciling.
... or are you just happy to see me?!
Sydney is to get herself a gay library; a good thing considering the rich history of GLBTI culture in this city.
For us women though, there already is a substantial collection at The Women's Library in Newtown and some also at Jessie Street National Women's Library in the city though the collections are both quite out of date as they rely mostly on donations. Jessie St. also has some 'fact files' on their website of Wonderful Women of Australia.
Let's hope the new library collection is representative of ALL gay (and bi and trans and intersex and queer) culture in the city and not just that of gay men.
Lt. Laurel Hester's story, filmed by documentary maker Cynthia Wade, has been selected to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival next month.
Some of you may have heard of Lt Hester's battle with local politicians for the right for her life partner of 15 years, Stacie, to receive her pension in the event of Lt Hester's death. She won that right though sadly, a month later she lost her battle with cancer.
Lt Hester sent this video to plead her and Stacie's case. Please watch it. Please think of what it really means for us to have equal rights and please consider the inhumanity of having to beg, on your deathbed, for something that is given freely to heterosexual life partners, married or otherwise.
Read more. Via UK Gay News.
I was at a Marketing conference in Sydney last week when someone asked the 'woman' question; in this case, "why are there so few female creative directors?" All the men on stage (and they were all men) laughed it off, shuffled their feet, offered up India as an example* of equality in the workplace and we moved on to the next question. The following panel of 'experts' were so chauvinistic and condescending (to the 'young' men as well) that I'm supposing they would have answered the question with, "what are you doin' out of the kitchen honey?" I'm talking to you Harold Mitchell. Thank goodness for Amy Smith, Chief Executive of JWT - you rock and I'll be coming to work for you when I get my Masters.
A similar question was raised in NY, read about it here at Design Observer.
I ask myself, do I WANT to try and get ahead in this competitive dog eat dog homo erotic pseudo mateship bully boy playground environment? What is 'ahead'? Can you ever get to 'the top' and is 'the top' necessarily a good place to be? Perhaps if more men asked themselves these questions and developed their own definition of success rather than compare the size of their wallets/cars/penises we could begin to build a more equal environment.
* would YOU be happy climbing the corporate ladder knowing it was because of the women in your servitude who had no shot at the opportunities you do because of the caste they were born into? Equality for you is not gained at the expense of others.
Australian Infront are running their visual response contest again; the theme for this one is 'future?'. Below is my entry. Suitably naff I think.
If you came with a warning label, what would it say?
Submitted by chris.
Continue to ask these fucking stupid questions at your own peril.
