RIFF.REBELSOUL DEV

Tag: sexuality

  • Review: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

    This is a most beautiful autobiography produced in a novel comic-book format. Alison Bechdel’s tale of growing up, her dysfunctional household, closeted homosexual father, and her own growing awareness of her lesbian identity is a touching and wonderfully rendered memoir of her early life. Insightful and fascinating from beginning to end, this is really worth […]

  • The ‘Pregnant Man’ and Gender

    My friend just made an interesting post about the “Pregnant Man” story. ‘[It’s] complete nonsense,’ he says, ‘Beatie is not a pregnant man […] the fact that Beatie has had her breasts removed does not make her a man.’ He goes on to say that, ‘Dennis Abner is not a tiger.’ This was my reply: […]

  • Pat Hobaugh

    ‘This series explores the subject of sexuality via contemporary still lifes. These paintings at once demystify the sexual nature of the objects by candidly displaying them for the viewer’s eye, but then remystify their intent by divorcing them from their sexual context via arrangement in the manner of conventional still lifes. Rendered in this liminal […]

  • Foucault: The History of Sexuality

    For a long time, the story goes, we supported a Victorian regime, and we continue to be dominated by it even today. Thus the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality. At the beginning of the seventeenth century a certain frankness was still common, it would seem. Sexual […]