This is the Beginning

Happy New Year to all!!! This is just a short introduction to my new blog.

I know no one reads my blog but when the new race of people come and look into our blog culture even they will know that I have been a lazy bitch. For the last two month I haven't been in the best mind. I just finished my masters and thinking I am the smartest bitch going, I realized I am the most stupid person I know, who can't manage her life and the last part of the year has been a complete blur. I am not kidding I can't remember anything until I said have a good new year to a customer and realized, fuck where have I been!!! I have had these blogs waiting to go since November but my stress, laziness, work, laziness, IBS and more laziness has got in my way.

With my crazy laziness this is what my bed has looked like, (Tracey Emin, Bed 1998)

So with my new pumped up resolution vibes I am ready to get these blogs out there and January is the perfect way to start talking positively about, The Body.

So through December they tell you, it's fine eat, drink be merry but in January

DON'T EAT!!

YOU'RE TOO FAT!!

EXERCISE MORE!!

This needs to stop all year round and women need to be educated about these beauty myths, this is what I want to do with art. With my next few blogs I want to do a series of blogs about the female body. I have a pile of books I am slowly (very slowly) getting through and I am starting with my feminist writings. The Beauty Myth and Fat is a Feminist Issue.  

I am half way through The Beauty Myth, (written by Naomi Wolf) and it's scary how much it is still relevant. Wolf argues that women are oppressed by the pressure to fit into a myth or false ideal of beauty. With the impact of the second wave feminism and how many changes happened in the 1960s and 70s to women's right,  The Beauty Myth explores themes of yes we won new rights but we are still held back by an obsession with physical appearance and a very narrow definition of beauty. If you are fat, not white, old, too skinny, have stretch marks, curly hair, straight hair, bad skin, back fat etc etc...

YOU ARE ALL FUCKED.

Even though Fat is a Feminist Issues is more about the body they both go hand in hand with why do most women feel so shitty about their appearances. The Beauty Myth came out in 1991, I was two years old so The Very Hungry Caterpillar was more up my street. I am now 27 and have been interested in feminist theory and issues for the past few years. Whilst reading this book I thought a lot of the issues would be dated, unfortunately many of these issues are still the same old story.   

So with this inspiration from these books (by the end of the series I will have read fat is a feminist issue) I want to look at different artists who use their body and have themes of body identity in their work and how our society deals with anyone who doesn't look like a supermodel and breaking the perception of what a body looks like.

The next entry, which will be out in the next few days will be called, Reclaiming our Bodies: This is What a Real Body Looks Like. I will be looking at three different artist who use their body to show the public what different interpretations of beauty is out there.