09 julij 2009
15 junij 2009
XXX-Politics at Istanbul Pride 2009
Independent Porn as a Critical Response to Mainstream Porn - Workshop / Discussion / Film Screenings at Istanbul Pride 2009!
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009, 20:00 – 23:00 at the Çıplak Ayaklar Dance Studio. Address: Firuzağa mah., Çukurcuma cad., No: 6/ 3, Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey; phone: 0212 252 30 13
http://prideistanbul.org/schedule.html
http://www.ciplakayaklar.com/index.html
The discussion/workshop is going to focus on independent pornographic films that can be labelled as political, feminist, queer or simply different from what the mainstream porno industry has to offer. Like all porn, independent porno films are about sexually explicit imagery intended for sexual arousal of the viewer. But the difference is significant. There are many amateur and professional film-makers who deliberately ignore, resist, laugh at, comment on or are bored with the persistent male-centered gaze, misogynystic scenarios and reproduction of heterosexual norms in the mainstream porn industry.
Independent porn is a direct and critical response to mainstream porn production. It is providing our horny and queer, role-playing and bisexual, lesbian and gay, submissive and dominant, transgressive and straight desires with a show-and-tell alternative. It is about reclaiming the right to sexual pleasure as we like it, to the beauty of bodies like yours and mine. It is about resisting sexual humilation, violence and exploitation in porn as a symptom of rather than the reason for the sexual and gender violence in society. It is not about liberal relativizing, but about respecting mutual consent. About ethics.
Is independent porn political? From a feminist point of view, it is politically correct because queer people with queer bodies are in it having queer sex. But porn can never be completely politically correct, because our fantasies are not. That's why watching and producing queer porn opens up a field of difficult questions that an unconditional anti-pornographic stance doesn't allow us to face. Barbara DeGenevive, one of the filmmakers that will be presented during the workshop, puts it this way:
"Porn is made to get people off. In order to do this, bodies must not only be highly sexualized, but objectified, fetishized, exotified and made to accommodate very particular individual kinks. Political correctness has become an intellectual prison within which an extremely limited dialogue can take place, and in fact where monologues and diatribes are usually the discursive practice. Embracing the need to objectify and be objectified, to fetishize and be fetishized, to play the willing victim as well as the victimizer, opens up a mine field that will be difficult to traverse, but it is a more intellectually provocative and honest terrain from which to understand who we are as complex sexual beings."
During the workshop we will show and discuss excerpts from the following independent porn films:
- Watching Lesbian Porn (dir.: Dayna McLeod, 2001, 10'18'', Canada, excerpt, Turkish subtitles
- Headshot (dir.: Jennifer Lyon Bell, Blue Artichoke Films, 2006, 9'00'', NL/USA)
- Trans Entities – The Nasty Love of Papi' and Wil (dir.: Morty Diamond, 2007, USA, excerpt, Turkish subtitles)
- The Crash Pad (dir.: Shine Louise Houston, Pink and White Productions, 2007/08, USA, excerpt)
- The Raspberry Reich (dir.: Bruce LaBruce, 2004, Canada, excerpt)
- Love Hotel (dir.: Barbara DeGenevieve, 2009, USA, excerpt)
Your questions and critiques are most welcome. The workshop is moderated by Anna Ehrlemark and Tea Hvala, the 2009 Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (Ljubljana, Slovenia) porn film screening curators.
To apply, write to info@prideistanbul.org
The workshop is going to be in English. Simultaneous translation to Turkish is going to be provided. The number of participants is limited to 30 people. To help us prepare for the workshop we would be grateful if you enclose your reply to the following questions:
Why do you watch porn? Or why not?
What do feel is lacking in mainstream porn?
For stimulation, here are some missing (porn) links: http://rdecezore.blogspot.com/2009/03/xxx-until-dawn-missing-links.html
18 april 2009
CALL FOR ACTION
This is a call to our friends and allies for solidarity and action! This call is rising from our frustration on the nonstoping hate crimes and deep worries about the closeure case on Lambdaistanbul.
On April 29th, one day before Lambdaistanbul’s last hearing, we as LGBT activists will take our place on the streets of Istanbul and demand our rights once again.
With this call we ask from our friends and allies around the world to support us on the same day, by demonstrating in front of their local Turkish Embassies and creating international pressure.
Please contact: Rüzgar from Lambdaistanbul (rggozum@gmail.com) and Kemal from Kaos GL (kord_ek@yahoo.com) about the actions.
Although being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is not criminalised in Turkey, discrimination practices and persecutions of LGBT people are commonplace. Therefore, in this call, we as Kaos GL Cultural Research and Solidarity Association, Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association and Pink Life LGBTT Solidarity Association in Turkey, ask for solidarity and urge human rights NGOs and groups in Europe to take necessary actions against human rights violations of LGBT individuals in Turkey. [These official bodies will be provided with possible strategies by us with a separate attachment when they are e-mailed.]
Below, you will find the current major problems of LGBT people in Turkey, explained with real cases. In addition, the demands of LGBT rights organizations from the Turkish government.
A. HATE CRIMES
1) LGBT people have been facing attacks and murders and unluckily, these crimes have increased contemporarily. Here are some examples of hate crimes from the passing year – both in the form of attacks and murders [You will find an extra document in which hate crimes against LGBT individuals in two years are listed in detail]:
- Ahmet Yıldız, a gay man, was shot to death on 15 July 2008, in İstanbul.
- Dilek İnce, a transsexual woman, was shot to death on 12 October 2008, in Ankara.
- Ebru Soykan, a transsexual woman, was stabbed to death on 10 March 2008, in İstanbul.
- Özkan Zengin confessed under police interrogation that he killed six gay men [Mehmet Naci Zeyrek, Ercan Coşkun, Enes Arıcı, Yaşar Mızrak, Aziz Taşdemir, Tarık Güzeller] in a year, from 2008 May to 2009 March.
- Melek D., a transsexual woman, was stabbed to death in her house on 11 April 2009, in Ankara.
2) We, as Kaos GL, Lambdaistanbul and Pink Life Associations are worried, since the number of hate crimes is increasing and the Turkish government does not take any necessary action in the form of enacting legislation and implementation. We urge the Turkish Government to:
- Find the attackers and murderers of LGBT people.
- Define attacks and murders against LGBT individuals as “hate crimes”.
- Stop decreasing the sentences based on “provocation” while punishing murderers or attackers of LGBT people.
- Amend the Turkish Penal Code (Article 122) in order to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Amend the Turkish Constitution (Article 10) to give equal rights to LGBT people.
- Eliminate discrimination against transgender individuals in employment and develop programs that will open employment opportunities outside the sex work, which is carried out in dangerous conditions.
B. CLOSURE TRIAL OF LAMBDAISTANBUL LGBT SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION
1) There have been several issues with the freedom of organization in relation to LGBT associations in Turkey. In particular, the process of registration is depending on the goodwill of the administrative authorities. Contemporarily, the case opened against Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association is in the main agenda of LGBT rights organizations, with current hate crimes.
Lambdaistanbul gained legal status in April 2006. An official demand to ban Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association was lodged on June 9, 2006, on the basis that the concepts of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite and transsexual” (LGBTT) listed in the name of Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association and the aims of the association listed in the 2nd article of its charter were against general morality of Turkish society and Turkish family structure. The prosecution office in Istanbul reached a decision in February 2007 to allow the group to continue to operate. But after the prosecution rejected the demand for a closure trial in the name of freedom of organization, the Governor’s Office appealed. On 29 May 2008, the 3rd Civil Court of Beyoglu of First Instance ignored an expert’s report and dissolved the association on the grounds that it was inconsistent with “general morals” and “Turkish family values”. The 7th Judicial Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned the ruling of Istanbul’s 3rd Civil Court of First Instance, which had decided to close down the Lambda Istanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association for a “violation of general morals”. The appeal court’s decision was taken on 25 November 2008, but in a six-page decree the court ruled that “sexual identity and orientation are facts that people do not choose of free will, but that stem from birth or upbringing and a person has no control over.” Ironically, we concerned that the Supreme Court of Appeals stated in its decision that " ..... the dissolution of the defendant association could still be demanded, if it would act counter to its charter, in the ways of encouraging or provoking lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite and transsexual behavior or acting with the aim of spreading such sexual orientations" because such a statement may lead attempts to limit the freedom of association of LGBT individuals in the future.
The following case against Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association will be seen in the 3rd Civil Court of Beyoglu of First Instance, on 30 April 2009.
2) Kaos GL, Lambdaistanbul and Pink Life Associations urge the Turkish Government to:
- Eliminate the prohibition against “obscenity” in the Turkish Penal Code or, at the very least, clearly define what constitutes “obscenity” and ensure that the definition applies equally to homosexual, bisexual and heterosexual people.
- Amend the Turkish Constitution in order to give equal rights to LGBT people. Article 10 of the Turkish Constitution contains a list of groups that must be treated equally before the law. This list must be amended to specifically guarantee the equal rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
- Amend the Turkish Penal Code (Article 122) in order to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
17 april 2009
Vstaja nevidnih delavcev sveta
Za garantiran dohodek in svobodo gibanja!
Nevidni delavci sveta in IWW vabijo na srečanje - in razpaljotko - v SC Rog, 18. april 2009 ob 20h.
Pridružite se snovanju 27. aprila na ulicah Ljubljane in pri oblikovanju osvobodilnega partizanskega gibanja - eksodusa iz usrane, ponižujoče, enodimenzionalne in absurdne družbe dela.
Predavanje 'Koncept čarovništva: med terensko raziskavo in teorijo'
ISH obvešča, da bo imela dr. Alja Adam v postopku izvolitve v naziv docentke javno nastopno predavanje z naslovom:
Koncept čarovništva: med terensko raziskavo in teorijo
V predavanju bodo najprej predstavljeni intervjuji iz terensko raziskovalnega tabora iz Kostanjevice na Krki, v katerih so julija 2008 vaščani in vaščanke opisovali lik vaške čarovnice. Coprnica, »ženska, ki je kriva« oziroma »grešna koza« je pomemben del vaške strukture, saj predstavlja objekt, skozi katerega ljudje kanalizirajo svoje strahove ter negativna čustva, predvsem ljubosumje in zavist.
Predavateljica bo nato spregovorila o zgodovinskem in mitološkem kontekstu čarovništva in pokazala, kako se predpisane lastnosti čarovnice reproducirajo skozi čas. Koncept čarovništva bo povezala tudi s prakso babištva, ki se je razvijala v srednjem veku. Iz zgodovine so znani številni primeri (še posebej iz 15. stoletja), ko so kot čarovnice sežigali babice, torej ženske, ki so imele dostop do ginekološkega znanja. Cerkvene in posvetne oblasti so s tem, ko so iztrebile babištvo, prevzele kontrolo nad »proizvodnjo ljudi« in nad žensko seksualnostjo.
Predavanje bo v torek, 21. aprila 2009 ob 12.00 uri v prostorih ISH, Slovenska cesta 30a (Knafljev prehod), Ljubljana.
Izšla je deveta številka revije Narobe
Dosegljiva je na netu (www.narobe.si), na Facebooku (išči "revija Narobe"), na običajnih mestih ... in po novem lahko tudi v vašem domačem poštnem nabiralniku (glej zavihtek "naročanje" na www.narobe.si). Z novo številko smo prenovili spletno stran Narobe - oglejte si "Narobe-blog" in "Narobe-obvestila".
Na voljo je tudi prvi Narobe-video: kako smo papežu pošiljali kondome [http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Iz vsebine:
* Intervju z Ano Dragičević, ki so jo starši zaradi spolne usmerjenosti prisilili v petletno psihiatrično zdravljenje
* Intervju z Andrejem Karolijem z Vala 202: "Pastirji in ovce"
* Tema: Medvedja subkultura
* V središču: GLBT-politiki in Eleanor Roosevelt - zamolčana ljubezen prve dame sveta
* Test spletnih svetovalnic
* Slehernik: Marko Popovič
* Raziskava: GLBT-mladi v Sloveniji
* Boris Vezjak: Čez planke in zaplankanost
* Te(r)orija: Al' prav se reče gej/lezbijka ali queer
* Medišit: Alka Vuica - strokovnjakinja za transseksualnost
* Predstavitev novih glbt-knjig, filmov, gledaliških predstav ...
* Drag: Čaj z Afrodito
... in še veliko več :)
Predavanje 'Umetnice in njihove poti v času'
dr. Lev Menaše, umetnostni zgodovinar, kritik in teoretik
torek, 21. april 2009, ob 18.00
Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Strossmayerjeva 6
Na začetku predavanja se bo dr. Lev Menaše posvetil problemu "ženske umetnosti" in vprašanju, kdaj in v kakšnih okoliščinah se je ta pojem sploh uveljavil. Nadaljevanje bo posvečeno primerom nekaterih ustvarjalk iz preteklosti zahodnoevropske likovne umetnosti, tako starejših kakor modernih. V zaključku naj bi obravnaval primere iz (bolj ali manj) sodobne slovenske umetnosti in ob tem opozoril na nekatere osnovne - eksistenčne in druge - probleme, s katerimi se umetnice srečujejo danes.
Dr. Lev Menaše je likovni kritik in teoretik. Bil je dolgoletni profesor predmeta Umetnost novega veka zahodne Evrope na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Je tudi avtor številnih razstav in katalogov ter pisec monografskih publikacij, mdr. Umetnostni zakladi Slovenije; Marija v
slovenski umetnosti: ikonologija slovenske marijanske umetnosti od začetkov do prve svetovne vojne; Images of God; Akt na Slovenskem 1; Slikarstvo in Akt na Slovenskem 2, Kiparstvo.
Vstop prost.
Umetnostna galerija Maribor
Strossmayerjeva 6, 2000 Maribor
T 02/ 229 58 60, 02/ 250 25 43
M 041/ 658 473, F 02/ 252 77 84
http://www.ugm.si/index.php?id=25&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=634&cHash=9eecd9ec8c
