Host Elly Arrow speaks to Victoria Gugenheim, a world award-winning body painter, feminist, and women’s rights activist, about her work focused on healing after sexual trauma, fighting purity & porn culture, desexualizing the female body, ending the policing of survivor activists’ appearances and cultivating joy within the movement so that dealing with heavy subjects doesn’t lead to burnout.
Links
Victoria Gugenheim’s Website and socials:
Women Create: womencreate.co.uk
Painted Powerful: paintedpowerful.substack.com
Article in the Radical Notion: theradicalnotion.org/the-body-as-boundary-painted-powerful
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the “flow state”: cgu.edu/people/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi
TED talk about the "flow state": youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs?feature=shared
Maryam Namazie: maryamnamazie.com
Body Riot - Protest Against Mandatory Hijab: imago-images.com/search?suchtext=Topless+woman+activists+protest+Iranian+regime+in&imagepage=on&db=stock
Note: Despite being successful on social media, this was censored on both YouTube and X. facebook.com/share/p/T9vArH9ye5vET6bb/?mibextid=qi2Omg
Matriarchal/Matrilineal tribes who wear makeup:
Asante people of Ghana: mmstudies.com/matriarchies/akan
Mosuo women in makeup: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6b5514fb18201758b96c7f/1602524611344-H2A0ZK37VJHYNEVA4I8Y/DSCF2858.jpg
Historic examples of freer body culture for women:
Minoans of Crete: jstor.org/stable/jj.15136008?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&refreqid=&searchKey=
Minoan women in high positions of power, topless snake goddesses, topless women in Fresco Art: blog.thesyntopiahotel.gr/minoan-crete-the-women-rulers
On Bare Breasts in Ancient Greece - private parts and patriarchy: rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/20/on-bare-breasts-in-ancient-greece
Talk: Matriarchies as Egalitarian societies: youtu.be/_rHijP0C7WI?si=QEZXKwAgWDP-LDht
Free The Nipple: campaignsoftheworld.com/outdoor/free-the-nipple
Our episode on spy cam porn: “Korean Women Fighting Porn Culture”
FiLia: www.filia.org.uk
Andrea Dworkin “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”: archive.org/details/PornographyMenPossessingWomenAndreaDworkinPdf
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain: ex-muslim.org.uk
One Law For All: onelawforall.org
Trashing, the dark side of sisterhood: jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm
The Tyranny of Structurelessness: jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy: psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-01368-000
Dancing in the Streets Book: amazon.com/Dancing-Streets-History-Collective-Joy/dp/0805057242
Kofra Women’s Center, Munich: kofra.de/layout/index.htm
Vulva/Vagina Folklore: youtu.be/mYMWd467YT8?si=mZWL_GfpV-bFtW1x
How Sadness Survived - The History of Depression: www.amazon.com/How-Sadness-Survived-Evolutionary-Depression/dp/1846190134
Claudia Clare: claudiaclare.co.uk
The Thin Black Line: lubainahimid.com/portfolio/the-thin-black-line
Jennifer Packer: serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/jennifer-packer
Orange is The New Black: netflix.com/de/title/70242311
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