Description : "There is a war over childhood. Both commercial interests and moral conservatives want to control how kids are raised. But who’s actually listening to the kids?"
The reason I’m talking about dance is because it is subject to periodic controversies. Dance is sensual and it therefore raises suspicions amongst those people/religions/cultures that fear dance will lead to licentiousness. Sex negative cultures are particularly fearful of dance. Of course there is another…
In some ways this is hilarious for the incongruity – a little white girl with a passion for African dance. There’s not a great deal of information about her – her name is Elvyna, she’s from Dunkirk and she has some notoriety in her native…
I dislike ideological double-speak with a vengeance and this is a perfect example. It comes from Gail Dines (surprise, surprise) and Julia Long. In an article called Resisting Sexualisation isn’t Moral Panic: it’s Politics… Dines and Long indulge in the kind of ideological apologetics worthy
This is worth adding as a follow on from my series critiquing Abigail Bray… – so consider it an addendum.
The moral conservatives can only imagine harm and shame when it comes to images of naked children. They cannot shake the idea that nudity equals
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.… Hélène Cixous
For a feminist this is the worst betrayal of all. Feminism is supposed to empower women and girls. Yet in adopting the paedophiliac
In my previous post I quoted from an article in which Abigail Bray accuses Bill Henson of ‘an ugly sexual political intent’. Might I suggest that the only person with an ‘ugly sexual political’ intent is Abigail. I cannot believe she is ignorant. I can…
All that is stopped, grasped, all that is subjugated […] which is to say all that is taken, caged, is less true. Hélène Cixous
…but the system gave that line a negative value and sent the scapegoat fleeing down it…. Deleuze and
I’ve admitted that the motivation for the Naked Child in Art series is my shock over the Henson… affair. No matter which way I look at it I see ignorance and utter stupidity. Harsh? Well consider this fact. In a panel discussion over the Henson
This Hailee Steinfield image for Miu Miu has been banned by the British Advertising Standards Authority. Why?
Their reason was that the ad was ‘irresponsible’ for ‘showing a child in a hazardous or dangerous situation’. Are they kidding? What dangerous situation? Sitting on an abandoned…
I wasn’t sure I’d write anything about Junior Masterchef this year. Last year I praised the program for showcasing just how skilled some kids can be and I certainly celebrate anything that encourages kids to reach their potential. I mean, when I was a kid…
Ray is a Melbourne based writer. He has completed two novels and is currently going through the process of getting them published. Read his Biography
A work in progress – and something completely different. A crime novel about cultural and generational clashes. A series of murders in the Melbourne art world. 
Greenfields Site.
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