Ephemera: 21 Questions

Right so my project is all about my not wanting to have children but also the way that decision is viewed by our society as a whole. Ive decided to try and get questions off people, the kind of things they would ask a woman in her 20s who says she doesnt want children, questions about how i came to my decision, about motherhood or my family or contraception at least thats what im hoping for. Ive got a box in the class at college for people to leave questions and an AskFM that ive posted on Facebook to try and get some attention so heres hoping. Im going to be answering 21 questions, one every night just as i take my birth control pill. It was originally going to be 28 days to include my 21 day pill cycle and the 7 days off you have your period in but im running out of time to do four weeks of filming plus i think the 28 days of the birth control are more important than the 7 days off the pill when im menstruating.

Cliteracy

Ive been doing a bit of research for my Internal Ephemera project, thinking about what my call to action is. I decided to take a look at a project i had seen ages ago and saved on Pinterest by Sophia Wallace called Cliteracy. 

CLITERACY is a new way of talking about citizenship, sexuality, human rights, and bodies. The project reveals the – phallic as neutral – bias in science, law, philosophy, politics, mainstream and even feminist discussion, and the art world - which is so saturated with the female body as subject. -Sophia Wallace.com

I love this project its so good, and it demonstrates its point in the fact that I've learned all these weird clitoris facts at 25 that i never knew about my own body. I want my project to have this combination of humour and educational value and a little fuck you to the patriarchy of course.

If you're interested in learning more about the project the HuffPo have this cool little Cliteracy mini site here.

Internal Ephemeral

ephemeral

ɪˈfɛm(ə)r(ə)l,-ˈfiːm-/

adjective

adjective: ephemeral

1.

lasting for a very short time.

"fashions are ephemeral: new ones regularly drive out the old"

synonyms:

transitory, transient, fleeting, passing, short-lived, momentary, brief, short, cursory, temporary, impermanent, short-term;

Its been a wee bit since i last blogged anything, been winding down from the Non-Place brief. Next up we're picking a brief from a choice of three, the first one was based on punctuation which didnt interest me (too cold), the second was based on the concept of Newspeak from Gerge Orwells 1984 which is a bit overwhelming and ive never actualy read the book despite wanting to (too hot). The final brief is internal ephemera which involves recording your thoughts over a period of time (just right).

My concept is basically about the way people discuss womens fertility as being ephemeral and encourage women and push women into having children, which is what ive seen. I really dont want children and never have at any point of my life so far and yeah i could change my mind but that doesnt change my thoughts at the moment and how much i try to avoid pregnancy. I suppose ive always found it really condescending the way people use the 'you'll know when you have your own kids' line, like the way your being talked to like an adult and talked at like a child at the same time fucking infuriates me.

So yeah keeping it nice and light this time.