Is this a worst? I’m not sure, you tell me. It just struck me as a little sad that graffiti talking about riots would be so restricted in both time and place. Just this week and only in the one out of the way spot behind the art department. Not even on the art department generally, just this one hidden wall. Legitimised graffiti seems to strike the wrong note to me. Doesn’t seem much point in writing “If my curvy body offends you don’t look at it” to this audience. The wall itself wasn’t bad. Liked the dinosaur, but I would have liked it better had it appeared overnight on say the giant tin can. Click to enlarge.
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Hmmm. I don’t really get the significance of the word ‘VAGINA’ on its lonesome there. Maybe it’s part of a work in progress to be finished off after a Wimmin’s Studies lecture. ‘Pussy power’ and ‘Cunt is not an insult’ would be good on T-shirts and/or bumper stickers. Reckon the whole thing does qualify as a worst IMHO.
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‘cunt is not an insult’?
tell that to Barra
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“Youre in the right spot”, eh?
I’m likewise confused by “It aint (sic) piffle” – a phrase so important it’s on there twice.
It’s a worst.
(And there appears to be a complete lack of respect for the conventions of graffiti which usually compels you not to cover the work of another.)
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The concept is good, however the slogans are a tad banal and amateurish with a retro feminist bent.
I think it’s a sad reflection on the declining literary skills of uni students and also an unfortunate promotion of the arts course at Curtin.
Wimmin – feminism has a broader perspective than reclaiming terms related to your anatomy.
Not good but Not Worst.
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I think the concept of “tame graffiti” is the actual worst.
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Perhaps it’s an attempt at post modern, counter-anarchy?
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The concept and the execution, shazza said it best “banal and amateurish”.
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Good to see femininininism is alive and well!
The clear infiltration of anti femininists was a nice touch I thought.
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Is that blue text something about lost utes?
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I think it says ‘When I get my ute it will be blue’. I saw a blue ute in a carpark once with a sticker saying ‘This is NOT my boyfriend’s ute!’
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The revolution will be sanitised.
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One more indication that the onset of maturity is being generationally delayed.
Not too much evidence that broadening of the mind is accompanying broadening of the corpus.
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I think this guild work felt much more authentic.
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Is that the blood of a misogynist on the lips of the dinosaur?
Or, maybe the beast is a fully paid up member of SCUM (Society for Cutting UP Men).
I think that’s the well known feminist Debra Harry?
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Not even one ‘hegemony’? Pah. Wimmin these days.
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Where is Poor Lisa when you need her?
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it says ‘bring pictures of your favourite women.”
I’ve got a pic of The Veronicas as Falangists that’ll go down a storm.
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This makes millie feel very embarrassed.
Follow the signs so you don’ t accidentally graffiti on the hegemony’s wall?
And whatever you do, make sure you only graffiti during the appointed week! or the patriarchy might punish you with a D on your twitter essay about Donnie Darko.
I don’t blame young wimmin bento, I blame young university students. Gah.
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Agree Lisa the most important revolution in human history reduced to this. There are still plenty of valid things to protest about e.g. the Weld Club.
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In an unrelated matter the answer to Four Corners question “Who killed Mr Ward?” the answer is the State Cabinet did.
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And chief among them was the premier Alan the Arrogant.
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Thank you Bill O’Slatter
“Mira was hiding in the ladies’ room. She called it that, even though someone had scratched out the word ‘ladies’ in the sign on the door, and written ‘women’s’ underneath.”
Now THAT’S feminist graffiti.
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And, more importantly, it’s grammatically correct.
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Indeed, Bento.
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Gah. I was joking about the twitter essay and look at this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/24/twitter-literature-twitterature
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The Guardian just cottened on? it’s already old.
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It’s ugly too, except Debbie Harry. (why can’t she be a feminist phreestyle?)
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Blondie is most certainly a femmo icon im my book.
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No reason. I just don’t remember doing any Debra Harry readings during the ‘Modern Feminist Thought’ units I did all those years ago.
After all that Andrea Dworkin and Shelia Jefferies, some Blondie would have been great.
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Actually now you mention it phreestyle I’m not sure Andrea Dworking would’ve approved of ‘Rip Her to Shreds’.
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Andrea would probably not approve of this web site either.
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Definite Worst Graffiti. Like Shazza, I find the slogans a bit banal and tokenistic. I’m also appalled at the colour choices – there is such a huge range of colours available these days!
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A hegemony wall would would be nice to have on campus. Wait, they’re all hegemony walls.
The poster should have “The Man will tell you when you’re in the right place.”
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I just noticed your Lenards chicken tweet
on the whole I was disappointed that nobody made any lame ‘choking the chicken’ puns during the whole trial.
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fowl play
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I so want to go down there and write over it with
“Iron my shirt”
just for the humour … honest … ha!
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wow that’s soooo fucking clever.
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Yes that would not have been outre enough Stu. Aileen, do you have a website to link to? If so, finish the link in the box when you comment, if not, erase the http/// stuff that’s in there now.
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I’m currently logged in on my wordpress account, so I have no idea why it’s not linking to my blog?
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Put the whole link in then when you comment if WP not doin it.
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Yes: Come on Aileen,
I swear (well he means).
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What would be the feminist version of iron my shirt? Parallel park my car?
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This week only ? In the right place ? Oh, the wimminity.
Simone will be spinning like a rotisserie, and if Germaine gets wind of this she’ll bulldoze the whole damn place. You couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of the latter’s assertion in The Whole Woman that feminism got derailed into settling for equality when what they’d actually demanded was liberation. She also accurately pinpoints the semantic shift from the Women’s Liberation Movement to Feminism as the moment it got pwned. Worstest, TLA.
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Good points from Germaine there skink. I was thinking of the recently departed Marilyn French whose blockbuster novel The Women’s Room had a radical campus setting.
I’m not sure that wall says anything about women having settled for equality (and of course there’s no past tense about it either, look at any index of sexual inequality you choose!) … seems to me they’ve settled for meekness and curly pink writing on sanctioned walls.
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right on sister.
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Thanks, poor lisa. In none of her works, of course, The Whole Woman included, has Germaine ever suggested that a fair share of a patriarchal system has ever actually been achieved, if that’s what “equality” is, and as if that would be something which any self-respecting Liberationist could ever aspire to, anyway.
I was referring moreso to her observations upon feminism’s derailment, of which this insipid insult is a perfect example.
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The notion of feminist derailment is an interesting one and can be easily argued when compared against fundamentalist leanings like Germaines (who i adore). However I think it’s a problematic assertion that denies the plurality of experiences and aspirations.
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Quite. For another example of fundamentalist leanings denying plurality, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDV1jsPlKD8
The best bit’s right at the end.
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Shazza, that sentence would not have looked out of place sprayed on the hegemony wall.
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thanks for noticing.
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Beautiful in its postmodern conflation of inclusiveness and incomprehensibility.
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“Reclaim the Night !” should make an appearance eventually.
(Often seen around inner Adelaide in the 80’s).
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… and Belgium, and Italy, and Germany, and England, and the United States, and …
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They were definitely reclaiming it here for a while too. Now it’s reclaim the ceramics department smoking area.
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For a week.
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I attended a few Reclaim the Night marches in Perth during my hey days. A friend and I attended one in about 2001 that started with a round of speeches, so we decided to pop down to Vultures for a quick Chardonnay, planning to join the march as it passed. However we had a few too many and instead ended up in the strip club across the road.
Does that make me a bad feminist?
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Were you a patron or clocking on for your shift, shazza?
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That’s a whole of life question Shazz , have you fought the good fight.
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an might we take a note from 1 Timmy 1 v 15 ( the missing bit) quote ” an I am chief among those ( sinners)”
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Heh. No just postmodern I think. Reclaim the night. With dour speeches and marches and little round glasses. Going to a strip club makes more sense.
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Bad feminist? Possibly. Tops date? Definitely.
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I just love meat eating Dorothy the dinosaur, great for teh kiddeez.
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If you’ve still got that poster from the Curtin Poker club you could put it up on the wall.
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I’m going to pretend I didn’t read any of the comments here and just complain that I haven’t seen anything like this at ECU yet.
Of course.
This is the kind of shit I do in my spare time.
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