What We're Digging

Amanda Tilger, an artist from my hometown of Rowlett, TX and a personal best friend of mine, has been an inspiration to me for as long as I've known her. Over the years her art has evolved from pastel colorings and more simple paintings into breathtaking watercolors of sometimes nameless, and always nearly faceless women. Finally, she has put some of her art up for sale on the open market, and you can check it out HERE!

Have a safe and exciting new year's eve, and be sure to check back soon for more info on Lip Service 2009.

Tonight on Lip Service

Tonight on Lip Service we read pieces that inspire us and things we've written! Yay. This was our last show of the semester, check it out by clicking on the link!
[download here]

Jensen's homage to Dworkin

Now that I'm on Christmas break I finally have time to read again, so I've been tearing through Robert Jensen's Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. I was a bit skeptical at first, but the book is actually less moralistic and personal than I had expected it to be. Jensen essentially targets society's expectations of a socially constructed masculinity as the source of violence and woman-hate within pornography. Rather than placing blame on any one group, he asks that we move away from masculinity toward a world where we can simply be human.

Jensen was very much inspired by Andrea Dworkin, one of my favorite radical feminist authors and activists. Many people (feminists included) think that Dworkin was too bold, too offensive, and too radical, but I think otherwise. The only real feminism is radical feminism--fuck sugarcoating the issues to appease the mainstream. Dworkin was an activist who spoke out and acted against rape, domestic abuse, and pornography. She fought adamantly against the left-wing liberals and libertarians who insisted that porn was about freedom and self-expression, an argument that I have never been able to comprehend. One of my favorite quotes from her sums up my bewilderment totally: "In pornography we literally see the will of women as men want to experience it." As long as we live in a patriarchal society, porn will never reflect the true sexuality, experiences, desires, thoughts, hopes, dreams, will of women.

The ladies and I will be reading our own writing as well as pieces that have inspired us tonight on the show! I will be reading some of Jensen and Dworkin, so be sure to listen in!

What We're Digging

It's no secret that I dig Kleenex/LiLiPUT, and have dug them for a while. Here's some songs + rad clips of women in punk from the 70s-80s. Enjoy!


KLEENEX - KRIMI/YOU (1979)




LiLiPUT - EISIGER WIND (1981)

Welcome to the brand new Lip Service blog!

Lip Service is a gender & sexuality talk show hosted by Zoja, Megz, and Emily (+ a few other very awesome people) every Wednesday night from 9 - 9:30 pm on 91.7 KVRX, Austin and kvrx.org (Fall 2008 time, right after In The Know). We do not currently know about our timeslot for Spring 2009, but keep your eyes and ears open for more info!

Our last show of the semester will air next week. We'll be reading pieces that have inspired us, papers we've written, and a whole plethora of other things.

Here's a few show's we've already done this semester that you can download:
[Interview with TexFem, UT's new feminist group]
[Interview with Big Star Burlesque]

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please feel free to comment on this blog or send an e-mail to megzeazez@gmail.com. Thanks!

xoxo,
Lip Service