Fighting Porn & Purity Culture Through Body Art with Victoria Gugenheim

Host Elly Arrow speaks to Victoria Gugenheim, a world award-winning body painter, feminist, and women’s rights activist, about her work focused on healing after sexual trauma, fighting purity & porn culture, desexualizing the female body, ending the policing of survivor activists’ appearances and cultivating joy within the movement so that dealing with heavy subjects doesn’t lead to burnout.

Links

• Victoria Gugenheim’s Website and socials:

• gugenheim.co.uk 

• thatvictoriag.substack.com

• instagram.com/victoriagugenheim

• x.com/quirkathon

• facebook.com/GugenheimGlobal 

• Women Create:  womencreate.co.uk 

• Painted Powerful: paintedpowerful.substack.com 

• Article in the Radical Notion: theradicalnotion.org/the-body-as-boundary-painted-powerful 

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the “flow state”: cgu.edu/people/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi

• TED talk about the "flow state": youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs?feature=shared

• Maryam Namazie: maryamnamazie.com 

• Body Riot - Protest Against Mandatory Hijab: imago-images.com/search?suchtext=Topless+woman+activists+protest+Iranian+regime+in&imagepage=on&db=stock

• Note: Despite being successful on social media, this was censored on both YouTube and X. facebook.com/share/p/T9vArH9ye5vET6bb/?mibextid=qi2Omg

• Matriarchal/Matrilineal tribes who wear makeup:

• Asante people of Ghana: mmstudies.com/matriarchies/akan 

• Mosuo women in makeup: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6b5514fb18201758b96c7f/1602524611344-H2A0ZK37VJHYNEVA4I8Y/DSCF2858.jpg 

• Historic examples of freer body culture for women:

• Minoans of Crete: jstor.org/stable/jj.15136008?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&refreqid=&searchKey=

• Minoan women in high positions of power, topless snake goddesses, topless women in Fresco Art: blog.thesyntopiahotel.gr/minoan-crete-the-women-rulers

• On Bare Breasts in Ancient Greece - private parts and patriarchy: rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/20/on-bare-breasts-in-ancient-greece

• Talk: Matriarchies as Egalitarian societies: youtu.be/_rHijP0C7WI?si=QEZXKwAgWDP-LDht 

• Free The Nipple: campaignsoftheworld.com/outdoor/free-the-nipple

• Our episode on spy cam porn: “Korean Women Fighting Porn Culture”

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