Yes, we publish the texts of video essays here on the website, in case you want to see it in writing.
FOUR ROCK-SOLID REASONS WHY ABORTION SHOULD BE LEGAL
Under all the angst, the abortion debate isn’t really about when life begins. It’s a dispute over who has a right to violence, on whom, and …
This is the text of the video as it was eventually uploaded—a new and improved version of the original essay. I’ve left the text of the lost video up as a record; particularly attentive critics might be interested to compare them.
WOMEN VS PPL WITH WOMBS (REDUX)
Last month I promised that this month we’d …
I’m uploading the text of the video originally scheduled for March here, but you won’t see the video until we’ve reshot it later in April – the raw files of the March shoot were lost in a hard-drive catastrophe.
We do, however, have Paula K’s marvellous behind-the-scenes photos of the day, two of which I’ve added …
Screenshot from A time to grieve…
I know very little Latin but somehow these words came to mind when I tried to sum up this month’s news – lacuna, a hole, a gap, and lacryma, tears. My father died, and my Director of Photography lost the entire collected files of March’s video shoot on a defective …
Here is the text of February’s video, for perusal, dissection, discussion, debate, and the like.
(Apologies for any undetected last-minute changes.)
GENDER, INTEGRITY AND YOUR BODY
Integrity. What exactly is that?
In modern usage the word has two distinct meanings: I want you to consider how intimately they’re related.
1. firm …
Our second video premiered on the last day of January and we’re a little late with the text version but here it is. We’ll always publish a written version of the text, to aid close analysis and detailed discussion—just in case anyone’s up for it 😉
(Apologies, as always, for any undetected last-minute script changes.)
GENDER …
Philosophilia’s first major video premieres to Jack’s patrons today so here, as promised, is the text of the video. We publish this to enable concentrated perusal, analysis, discussion and, when necessary, worked-through clarification of what’s said in the videos – replies will be monitored and Jack will often respond personally.
(Apologies for any undetected last-minute script …
I had a great idea for this month’s post: list a bunch of ways people, especially women—contemporary or historical, real or fictional—have responded adroitly to sexual assault or harassment, and ask for reader contributions on the topic. The idea was to help us overcome the “freeze” moment, when a victim might appear to accept …
For Donald Horne, with love and regret
The political right, patriarchy, and the politics of penetration
Six long months ago, when political staffer Brittany Higgins went public with her account of rape, cover-up and ostracism inside Australia’s Parliament House, the nation was shocked. Australian women, though, felt a familiar unease. A tiresomely persistent problem—often dismissed as men, …
Time for some cunning linguistics
In case my first post didn’t make it clear, you’ll find quite a few profane words on Philosophilia (vagina isn’t a swear word; do you find it profane? I do—more on that in a moment). When your subject is the ways in which civilised societies exaggerate, entrench and enhance the structural …