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UK Feminista Summer School 2011

UK Feminista Summer School 2011

Representatives from The Anti Porn Men Project will be speaking at this year’s UK Feminista Summer School. The Summer School on the 13th and 14th of August held at University of Birmingham’ Edgbaston Campus is a unique two-day event for anyone who is or wants to get active in feminism. It aims to teach crucial campaigning skills in everything from how to use the media to how to take direct action. Speakers include: Mozn Hassan (Nasra for Feminist Studies), Nesrine Malik (the Guardian), Hannah Pool (UK Feminista), Emma & Abi Moore (Pink Stinks), Rosalind Miles, Shahida Choudry (Women’s Networking Hub), Cath Elliot (Too Much to Say For Myself), Estelle Hart (NUS Women’s Campaign), Louise Jenkins (Eaves), Tamsin Omond (Climate Rush), Anna Bird (Fawcett Society), Chitra Nagarajan (GAPS…

(London) Hardcore screening – Last chance for tickets

(London) Hardcore screening – Last chance for tickets

There are only a few tickets remaining for the screening of the documentary Hardcore taking place in London this Monday the 18th July at 6.30pm. The screening is held by OBJECT and UK Feminista and will be followed by a discussion with Hardcore producer, Richard Sattin, and anti-porn activist and academic, Dr Rebecca Whisnant. Find out more and book here Please note this film is a disturbing expose of the world of pornography and can be ‘triggering’ to someone who has experienced abuse. Delegates are welcome to attend the discussion alone if they do not wish to see the film. Read the recent Guardian article by Julie Bindel ‘The Hardcore truth about women in porn’ UK Feminista is to rescreen the 2001 documentary Hardcore that offers a horrifying…

Stop Porn Culture – Conference Papers

This week Stop Porn Culture‘s third annual conference was held in Boston, MA (US). The six-day conference finished yesterday. Below are some details about the event and links to download some of the papers given. Radical Feminist Seminar: Saturday and Sunday (25-26th) saw two days of radical feminist education, organizing, and networking. Classic and contemporary radical feminism was discussed as well as the development of local and international strategies for building a feminist resistance movement. Readings and papers from Sheila Jeffreys, Gail Dines, and Lori Watson given at the two-day semiar are available to download from here. On Monday and Tuesday (27-28th) at the Wheelock Media Institute showed participants how to develop media literacy curriculum for children, youth, and adults, as well as strategies on…

APMProject at Conference ‘Building the Good Society’

The Anti Porn Men Project will have a representative speaking at the Compass ‘Building the Good Society‘ conference in London this Saturday. The Project is taking part running a workshop entitled ‘Resisting Porn Culture’ alongside representatives from UK Feminista and OBJECT. Tickets for the entire conference are from £25 and there are a few left so you can still book here.

(London) HARDCORE: 10th Anniversary Screening

UK Feminista and OBJECT are to present a 10th anniversary screening of the groundbreaking documentary, Hardcore. Hardcore is a shocking, moving documentary which charts a young British woman’s attempt to break into the porn industry in Los Angeles – the city where ten thousand pornography movies are made every year. The result is a rare glimpse into the reality of working in the sex industry. “Hardcore is not a film that will leave any illusions about the nature of porn undisturbed.” The Independent The screening will be following by a discussion with Hardcore producer, Richard Sattin, and Dr Rebecca Whisnant from the University of Dayton (with more speakers to be confirmed). Here are articles and reviews of Hardcore from the Independent, the F Word, and…

Playboy Club Protest June 4th

Playboy Club Protest June 4th

A new Playboy club is opening in Mayfair, London on June 4th 2011. The new club comes 30 years after its predecessor establishment, which was also based in Mayfair , closed after a police raid for suspected gambling irregularities. Playboy clubs are just one of a myriad of products licensed by Playboy Enterprises, an international pornography corporation whose outputs include a mix of pornographic films, websites, TV programming and children’s stationary. Playboy is a multi-million pound, multi-national porn empire which makes its money out of exploiting and degrading women. It markets its brand to children through playboy pencil cases and bed covers, and it grooms young girls into porn culture. In its clubs women are objectified and sexualised as fluffy animals who are marketed as…

News: Investigation of HIV in porn industry hurt by ‘limited cooperation’

Read the entire article in the Los Angeles Times Health officials say two male porn actors were HIV-positive when they had sex with Derrick Burts, an adult film performer whose HIV diagnosis in October caused several large production companies to suspend filming. The report indicated that adult film companies were stymieing the public health investigation into the HIV infection. “Limited cooperation from many adult film industry companies restricted this contact investigation. Rarely did industry legal counsel give information for investigation,” the report said. The report… illustrates how public health officials have been unable to conduct an extensive, thorough investigation quickly… Making the investigation difficult is the refusal of adult film companies to cooperate and the prolific use of pseudonyms by performers, which can make it…

Pink Cross Foundation welcomes Hustler fine

Shelley Lubben, President of the Pink Cross Foundation, welcomes the news of Hustler being fined for not giving actors condoms. Ex porn stars from Pink Cross Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to offering porn stars a way out, are satisfied that something is finally being done to stop the illegal and unsafe work practices of porn companies. “They took our complaints seriously and enforced the laws,” says Shelley Lubben, former porn star and President of Pink Cross Foundation. Complaints were made in August, 2009, by ex porn stars that joined with AIDS Healthcare Foundation as part of its ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in porn films. “I was a porn star living the glamorous life. Drug overdoses, herpes, suicide attempts and abuse at…

Hustler fined for not giving actors condoms

Californian workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video $14,175 and another porn producer, Forsaken Pictures $12,150, for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease. Larry Flynt, who launched Hustler magazine in 1974, has said in the past that audiences don’t want to watch porn in which actors use condoms. On this story: The Associated Press and BBC Newsbeat

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