i can hardly stop laughing.
what has pussypants got to do with humour?
well, i still don’t know after reading sandra engström’s text in nöjesguiden. she’s moaning about an issue of the magazine bang focusing on humour.
there’s nothing about pussypants in that issue of bang. however, the writer seems to make a link: “…hur kommer det sig att det inte finns särskilt många roliga komiker här i Sverige? Vad är det för fel på humorn i Sverige? Det hade varit en intressantare artikel än vilket tröttsamt dravel om fittbyxor som helst.”
or am i crying?
/å
onsdag 2 september 2009
fredag 7 augusti 2009
flogging for wearing trousers?
the fight goes on to be able to wear whatever you want to. lubna hussein in sudan might be facing flogging for wearing trousers. 40 lashes. in the summer of 2009.
according to an article in the guardian by roy greenslade on july 30th Lubna Hussein told a court in Khartoum the day before "that she wants to resign from her UN job, which grants her immunity from prosecution, in order to challenge the law on female dress."
the bbc reports: "She says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law which forbids indecent clothing.
according to an article in the guardian by roy greenslade on july 30th Lubna Hussein told a court in Khartoum the day before "that she wants to resign from her UN job, which grants her immunity from prosecution, in order to challenge the law on female dress."
the bbc reports: "She says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law which forbids indecent clothing.
"I want to change this law, because hitting is not human, and also it does not match with Sharia law," she told the BBC.
"The BBC's James Copnall in Khartoum says Ms Hussein is determined to generate as much publicity as she can."
She's been using her network to invite people to attend the trial, to get publicity, support and courage.
i’m thinking: "freedom from fear", as burmese aung san suu kyi has stated. ms hussein's situation also resonates with what another nobel peace price laureat, the iranian lawyer and feminist shirin ebadi, writes in her memoir "iran awakening": 'i was putting the law itself on trial'.
lördag 6 juni 2009
X-front crew in Utrecht
Part of the X-front crew is gathered in Utrecht for the 7th Feminist European Research Conference during the first days of June.
The overall theme for the conference is 'Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics'. The organisers are yet and again emphasising that at the Gender Studies Department at Utrecht University they have a special interest in the combination of art and knowledge production in the sense that art is a way of imagining new futures which have political implications. Or, as they put it in the conference programme: "Through the combination of art and scholarship, new questions and new styles of knowledge production could arise."
This is the context where X-front has an installation/workshop in the art room and also has a panel in the scientific programme (yes, the organisers make that distinction although they emphasise a combination of the two).
The overall theme for the conference is 'Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics'. The organisers are yet and again emphasising that at the Gender Studies Department at Utrecht University they have a special interest in the combination of art and knowledge production in the sense that art is a way of imagining new futures which have political implications. Or, as they put it in the conference programme: "Through the combination of art and scholarship, new questions and new styles of knowledge production could arise."
This is the context where X-front has an installation/workshop in the art room and also has a panel in the scientific programme (yes, the organisers make that distinction although they emphasise a combination of the two).
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