tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17961929710604664162024-02-17T19:50:34.118+11:00Pearl Red Moon ArtMixed Media, Textiles and Womens Clothing. Anti woke commentary on cancel culture. Femalist.Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.comBlogger423125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-27565994690336924392023-12-22T19:28:00.009+11:002023-12-22T19:33:23.347+11:00Partridge in a Pear Tree<p> I am still maintaining a presence on the interwebs, despite efforts to shut me up!</p><p>Anybody still reading this artefact blog who is interested to know what I'm currently doing, making and saying - nowadays I can be found over at Substack, writing as Cosmic Pearl</p><p><a href="https://pearlredmoon.substack.com/">https://pearlredmoon.substack.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinL0-tWemOboXb_1rzwDwHLiSPIKCCrNJS1GZn8M5ZIhVHEE18-gcVpgynslYkDuEnppmLr0yCWww0h5cMu1eFQclWfNVHQS4Cm6sjo49GZF1-aKvOT2s9uD829EQNUY36xMJUJ6_IUtgqMPwdOVziwbdmjNOMfk5jm21yf4srhUmi8fJJAFWPcXA4duU/s4624/20231218_065424.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinL0-tWemOboXb_1rzwDwHLiSPIKCCrNJS1GZn8M5ZIhVHEE18-gcVpgynslYkDuEnppmLr0yCWww0h5cMu1eFQclWfNVHQS4Cm6sjo49GZF1-aKvOT2s9uD829EQNUY36xMJUJ6_IUtgqMPwdOVziwbdmjNOMfk5jm21yf4srhUmi8fJJAFWPcXA4duU/w375-h499/20231218_065424.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><p>Posted to my YouTube channel today</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/l1rKI5tbp_I?si=bTwzbvQTI2Fesk6r">https://youtu.be/l1rKI5tbp_I?si=bTwzbvQTI2Fesk6r</a></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-17832080916252305032023-08-23T08:59:00.001+10:002023-08-23T09:03:33.089+10:00A close look at Wedding Gown and see it in San Francisco<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyWo5NGT20_p4whoOnQQHqwelpUonXNzHq8Ik62hDBMyer3LWLgolqWVtElUaraEhTZRiXmhXfHjIO1mekCUKjBqDJT3lHhSEMP_60WZ48fNskt3KVXSg7_kWnO6ApwN1fx8EEUsdeM_oe_xFY6nzZ1V-YBDUli-ZfH-H-Kcj2ezNm3LdHN5Wh-VXXPM/s640/288500647269592716.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="288" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyWo5NGT20_p4whoOnQQHqwelpUonXNzHq8Ik62hDBMyer3LWLgolqWVtElUaraEhTZRiXmhXfHjIO1mekCUKjBqDJT3lHhSEMP_60WZ48fNskt3KVXSg7_kWnO6ApwN1fx8EEUsdeM_oe_xFY6nzZ1V-YBDUli-ZfH-H-Kcj2ezNm3LdHN5Wh-VXXPM/w250-h555/288500647269592716.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><p>This video was made the day before I went to Queensland for the Wearable Art Festival. It shows a close up detailed look at the surface of the garment.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL9-KCw6_zQ&ab_channel=PearlRedMoonArtist" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Wedding Gown for a Woman to Marry Her Garden</span></b></a></p><p>After getting back from Queensland I packed up Wedding Gown and sent it to the United States. During the 7 weeks I had been expelled from the Wearable Art Festival I had been contacted by an art collector who bought the dress to show in an art exhibition in San Francisco in September. The exhibition is called</p><p><a href="https://womensdeclarationusa.com/wdi-usa-2023-national-convention/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> A Nasty Piece of Work; The Art of Dissident Feminists</span></b></a></p><p>It opens on September 16th 2023 (open until October 15th) in conjunction with the Womens Declaration International conference. If you are interested to see it in reality check out the Saturday 16th schedule for the conference where the opening of the exhibition is advertised at 7.00pm. Entry to the opening night comes with paid registration to attend the conference and the venue for the exhibtion is not currently being advertised due to concern for attracting anti womens rights protestors. After the WDI conference the exhibition will remain open for a few more weeks with viewing available by appointment.</p><p>My work will be represented along with these other women artists from around world who have all been cancelled and vilified in various ways for attempting to speak out about how womens rights and child safeguarding comes into conflict with trans gender ideology.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 0px 0px 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Laura Becker </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">candio. </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Claudia Clare </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jess de Wahls </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Melissa Gwyn </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Laura Ichikawa </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rosie Kay </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sarah Vaci </em><em style="font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </em></span></b></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nina Paley </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Famous Artist Birdy Rose </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Beverley Talbott </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiSgn3G_USzNFKKf4qfak32dZb6HiywfvTjGVX0VE79_I-_7lAajnqQGj80Fa1dTpIpiVmb43v1tuKq9cZO90pK6KlQm23Gj8bS96OOAf6ScFfA5sFP4zXRWwGRk_xN4bvcr9fbwS8ubyBbOUytOFBPajHYDD-7gQKVEAaooSProeUT61azzGMMNSPog/s4624/neckline%201-07-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiSgn3G_USzNFKKf4qfak32dZb6HiywfvTjGVX0VE79_I-_7lAajnqQGj80Fa1dTpIpiVmb43v1tuKq9cZO90pK6KlQm23Gj8bS96OOAf6ScFfA5sFP4zXRWwGRk_xN4bvcr9fbwS8ubyBbOUytOFBPajHYDD-7gQKVEAaooSProeUT61azzGMMNSPog/w597-h447/neckline%201-07-23.jpg" width="597" /></a></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></em></div><p></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Last month I spoke in Brisbane at another Womens Declaration International seminar with these other redoubtable women. Moira Deeming is on the left of me, psychiatrist Jillian Spencer first to the right and Hobart City Councillor Louise Elliot to the far right. I'll publish a transcript of my talk on my Substack in a few days time.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://pearlredmoon.substack.com/" target="_blank">Cosmic Pearl</a></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilL22fWAqVUe0pHG9Q_GIjkEpL5yvyqo-J85O70nU04SE0Y3gHjsUxkveV2vsRCvuMdZY4px-OM7KbivKVvw7NcISwsWG69LtdCkjm_2iQ6voxO0umpgqpPYR7EdPkh0cn22U5ex8xn69ZesPvkXU-rs1mbxYwY7_jkADCIEeMQuMz4scBYSAYfD6yWGQ/s4624/Pearl%20at%20Q%20seminar,%20blank%20background.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilL22fWAqVUe0pHG9Q_GIjkEpL5yvyqo-J85O70nU04SE0Y3gHjsUxkveV2vsRCvuMdZY4px-OM7KbivKVvw7NcISwsWG69LtdCkjm_2iQ6voxO0umpgqpPYR7EdPkh0cn22U5ex8xn69ZesPvkXU-rs1mbxYwY7_jkADCIEeMQuMz4scBYSAYfD6yWGQ/w649-h292/Pearl%20at%20Q%20seminar,%20blank%20background.jpg" width="649" /></a></div><br /><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Remember, </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=don%27t+let+the+bastards+grind+you+down+handmaid%27s+tale&rlz=1C1UEAD_enAU1044AU1044&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgAECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxAjGCcY6gLSAQoxNzMwNDdqMGo3qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:451ededb,vid:jPui3nKymhs" target="_blank">Nolite te bastardes carborundorum</a></span></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></em></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="background-color: white; font-size: calc((var(--large-text-size-value) - 1) * 1.2vw + 1rem); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></em></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-65942764903305475012023-08-14T07:40:00.004+10:002023-08-15T10:36:22.624+10:00Garden Wedding Gown in the Wearable Art Festival<p> Just a reminder for anybody following my art - I can only be followed here on my blog or on my YouTube channel</p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdImzXldUiDL-PLerVAXBg" target="_blank"><b>Pearl Red Moon Artist</b></a></span></p><p>I am banned from Instagram due to being a Gender Critical Feminist. If you search you may find my artefact account there, but I am locked out, meaning I have no control over it. Since March 2023 I've been unable to publish anything, nor can I delete it or start a new account. Meta decides who is allowed to use its platform and I've been expelled due to being designated a hate speaker, bigot and nazi. Nowadays this can be considered a normal consequence for speaking your honest opinions or to defend womens rights. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6QzPc1mnfOcL9DIyN4p5D9bcw7JfOoIY_dncO2HKg_Ps5ahdaCexJSgw4AvP9xJKYqTEJzvtFKX1KxT45pSZb06vlzTua010L6iI-sgtpKS_g8bCKOgrGt4gouXKevffBo1Ksq6GtPansjt_bE74NXORNskZRZT6Z01jl7a5dCQyDmXEHjBVkYWmyGU/s4624/Kinsey%20on%20Friday%20at%20AWAF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6QzPc1mnfOcL9DIyN4p5D9bcw7JfOoIY_dncO2HKg_Ps5ahdaCexJSgw4AvP9xJKYqTEJzvtFKX1KxT45pSZb06vlzTua010L6iI-sgtpKS_g8bCKOgrGt4gouXKevffBo1Ksq6GtPansjt_bE74NXORNskZRZT6Z01jl7a5dCQyDmXEHjBVkYWmyGU/w471-h628/Kinsey%20on%20Friday%20at%20AWAF.jpg" width="471" /></a></div><br /><p>Over this weekend I had the immense delight of being able to present the garment I'd entered to the Australian Wearble Art Festival on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. I had the great good fortune to have the most beautiful young woman volunteer to model the dress. Her name is Kinsey and she is on holiday from Taiwan on a working visa until later this year.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx-jIzlORpjgOem6Pp69kdhOchxZcHE48j6aa5SuIpkh2NNZCUG49Fq8d7jn5jHbNLkaHHlUV9-dH3BmBZWeA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She was an awesome model and I'm so grateful to her for the wonderful way she presented it. Thankyou Kinsey! I hope you enjoyed the very special experience.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Over the next few days I'll show many more pictures and talk more about the wonderful festival.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-86306425967900757782023-06-22T09:19:00.001+10:002023-06-22T09:19:19.493+10:00Garb Age tour<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/aDB2za_-x2A" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Walk through of my wearable art exhibition at the Old Tattersalls Hotel, Murrurundi in April 2023. The show was called "Garb Age" as a play on the word garbage as all the fabrics and fibres I used to make the clothes was stuff salvaged from the waste stream. comprising mostly used clothes, homewares and unused fabric remnants taht had been donated to thrift shops.</div><div><br /></div><div>Many of the garments on show at Garb Age, less the ones that were sold and a few more I've made since, can be seen in my upcoming Sydney exhibition - Tangled Webs She Wove - opening Saturday 8th July, at Balmain Space, 79 Beattie St, Balmain, Sydney. The completed wearable artwork that was banned from the Australian Wearable Art Festival, "Wedding Gown for Woman to Marry Her Garden" will also be displayed.</div><div><br /></div><div>We'll be having an opening celebration in the gallery all day long on the 8th, so pop in for horse doovers and champers and admire some of the most accomplished works of wearable art you'll ever see. I spent 45 years getting this good.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Sunday 9th, between 1-3pm, I'll be teaching a class in the gallery about stencil printing and embellishing cloth with hand stitches. Fabrics, threads, paints and all materials will be supplied, attendees are required to bring only dressmaking scissors and wear protective clothes. Class will be repeated on Saturdays 15th and 22nd July. Cost is $65 and and book if you wish (through Balmain Space Facebook page) or just turn up.</div><div><br /></div>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-67524874501483922822023-06-20T21:05:00.000+10:002023-06-20T21:05:34.567+10:00Wedding Gown for Woman to Marry Her Garden<p>Work in progress</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypnTVzMP4Ig&t=26s&ab_channel=PearlRedMoonArtist" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Wedding Gown For Woman to Marry her Garden</span></b></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjC0-hItsKJrI3sbcr-yB06hjjqBwwwfkdSVxr9JAQ6RbCDOK5Dgocbp7JQXEpu5dnLQvrA7btbNjI5Au-Vp9OwpQAMOfnxXs72LIbDulSorXQrnVeB0nof32TDGlWEtd6-emuO2K0bdCgCBxLDIzOMfjrwh8zDmDfAk7S8GrVAPTWWf52WRgHsgUi-fI/s4624/20230618_161405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjC0-hItsKJrI3sbcr-yB06hjjqBwwwfkdSVxr9JAQ6RbCDOK5Dgocbp7JQXEpu5dnLQvrA7btbNjI5Au-Vp9OwpQAMOfnxXs72LIbDulSorXQrnVeB0nof32TDGlWEtd6-emuO2K0bdCgCBxLDIzOMfjrwh8zDmDfAk7S8GrVAPTWWf52WRgHsgUi-fI/w461-h615/20230618_161405.jpg" width="461" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><p><a href="https://unherd.com/thepost/three-women-in-australia-cancelled-for-gender-critical-views/?=frpo" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Australian women under the pump</b></span></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJ6IklleUidoi3PKRxBjz_DE_dZpJJCltcaUDdsxp2vqJpzZqcG5Ze-uJOOvJBjeXgqhCFy_MKqvVYwokMT176dUV4U5oa1XUj_mrZ9KunuY0ZEhrlQqo0VmQq7-bDHYWSiXEpATwNe3lxGeV9YZSIufPxXH5abY6N0AjY92gRrh6Bdesw65HKPXMSwU/s4624/20230618_161437.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJ6IklleUidoi3PKRxBjz_DE_dZpJJCltcaUDdsxp2vqJpzZqcG5Ze-uJOOvJBjeXgqhCFy_MKqvVYwokMT176dUV4U5oa1XUj_mrZ9KunuY0ZEhrlQqo0VmQq7-bDHYWSiXEpATwNe3lxGeV9YZSIufPxXH5abY6N0AjY92gRrh6Bdesw65HKPXMSwU/w464-h619/20230618_161437.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br />Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-92093583233561359102023-06-15T07:58:00.000+10:002023-06-15T07:58:00.488+10:00Tangled Webs She Wove<p> My next exhibition of wearable art called “<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Tangled
Webs She Wove” </span>will be at </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/balmainspace/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Balmain Space</span></b></a></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal">opening Saturday 8<sup>th</sup>
July and closing Sunday 23<sup>rd</sup>.<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">The gallery is located at 79 Beattie St,
Balmain, Sydney, Australia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BYbCZbFQHDCdcssAN7CqOqhieXKo94TUrPXt3dw9KP1A70diCTqbm2xmG5AAjOr_7rD3LCZiJtoMc5hXz_KnvuMZ09zVCI1QLKsm-cxpdPxMUn3YnPS2L4pxhWztJgfBpjLi7UqvB_wZjrIvSHU_rAIZMbzikjUQTZoO2_Vuj-vLfUU1fxlO1l8a/s3864/TWSW%20Sampler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3393" data-original-width="3864" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BYbCZbFQHDCdcssAN7CqOqhieXKo94TUrPXt3dw9KP1A70diCTqbm2xmG5AAjOr_7rD3LCZiJtoMc5hXz_KnvuMZ09zVCI1QLKsm-cxpdPxMUn3YnPS2L4pxhWztJgfBpjLi7UqvB_wZjrIvSHU_rAIZMbzikjUQTZoO2_Vuj-vLfUU1fxlO1l8a/w582-h510/TWSW%20Sampler.jpg" width="582" /></a></blockquote></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">I will host 3x 2 hour classes on Sunday 9<sup>th</sup>/16<sup>th</sup> and
Saturday 22<sup>nd</sup> July, from 1-3pm. If you wish to come along please contact Robin the
curator, through Balmain Space Facebook page for more information and to book in. We will play with one of my most favourite techniques, stenciling onto cloth, cutting and patching it together and building up layers of embellishment with hand stitches.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDvg9PccBywL7BwHJ_cWLaOdqTUvkD36p5xOksmuqFqhIDTWUqaiUr_B4N7KbYFm5PoIQGGMg3x4ctgaDDiekTMtNmsmEwsgtzCtDX6HwDoMVSj_DwPEtBQaDLrkUZobdNT7V8jN-I2a6tg70aoiswmsDgrCjUzmpw9kJ9TgIXnvznxwc4tFs02KP/s4624/20230523_123549.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="654" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDvg9PccBywL7BwHJ_cWLaOdqTUvkD36p5xOksmuqFqhIDTWUqaiUr_B4N7KbYFm5PoIQGGMg3x4ctgaDDiekTMtNmsmEwsgtzCtDX6HwDoMVSj_DwPEtBQaDLrkUZobdNT7V8jN-I2a6tg70aoiswmsDgrCjUzmpw9kJ9TgIXnvznxwc4tFs02KP/w491-h654/20230523_123549.jpg" width="491" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding my expulsion from the Australian Wearable Art Festival, 4 days ago I sent this email to them but haven't heard anything back at this point</p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Wendy and Helen<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Since receiving your email of June 4<sup>th</sup> saying AWAF
did not intend to represent my work in the festival I haven’t replied back.
However, if you’ve read the blog posts I’ve made over the last week I think you’ll
appreciate the anger and hurt I feel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In March when I was notified of being selected I wrote
back indicating my concern that AWAF was aware of my public outspoken support
for womens rights. Here is a quote from Wendys reply<i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"I've been personally following you for a while and I am
aware and have absolutely problems with your women's rights activism.
Australian Wearable Art Festival is apolitical and we value each artist for
their art - no problems. Thanks for the heads up about potential issues
though. I will keep an eye out and deal with any comments as/if they
arise."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Getting that acknowledgement was a
huge relief to me and gave me confidence to go ahead with investing the time, energy
and resources to develop my concept. To date, I’ve spent at minimum 60 hours
working on “Wedding Gown for Woman to Marry Her Garden”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I hope that AWAF will reconsider its
decision to expel me as a finalist. I’m under the impression a number of people
have contacted AWAF on social media saying they support me being in the
festival, regardless of what my beliefs might be and to say they believe my
expulsion was unfair. Many people have contacted me to say those things which leads
me to feel I have significant support. Most Australians still believe ordinary
people are entitled to hold beliefs that shouldn’t be the cause of getting discriminated
against or result in having an opportunity withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Though still not finished my
garment is beautiful and I’m so proud of it. People who have seen it in
progress in the studio are impressed. I hope we’ll be able to reconcile and that
my artwork will be showcased on the runway along with the other finalists in
August.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I look forward to hearing from you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pearl Moon</span></p></blockquote><p>___________________________________________________________________________</p><p><br /></p><p>At present I'm continuing to work on Wedding Gown for Woman To Marry Her Garden and the finished artwork will be on display as part of the Balmain Space exhibition. </p><p>I have some amazing news I'm busting to tell about Wedding Gown but are bound by confidentiality at this point! All can be revealed sometime in the next week or 2!</p><p>Sometimes shit turns into compost which can grow something extrordinary.</p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-58206154934378456412023-06-11T09:49:00.001+10:002023-06-11T11:10:16.225+10:00Expelled from the Australian Wearable Art Festival, part 4<p> I am grateful to
internationally famous screenwriter Graham Linehan who has publicised my story
on his Substack a few hours ago</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/FMfcgzGsnBdFgTWWkzTpLHxxzPVfpZdL" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">JL on the Glinner Update</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graham Linehan is the much beloved creator of satirical sitcoms
Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd and much more. As a person in the arts he
has also been vilified, deplatformed and regularly attacked for his defence of womens
rights. Along with his Substack publication, <a href="https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b>The Glinner Update</b></span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span>he has an irregular YouTube
podcast called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+mess+we%27re+in+glinner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">The Mess We’re In </span></b></a>where he chats with with Irish feminist Helen Staniland and Canadian LGB activist Arty Morty.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you’re wondering what the hell is going on in the world please
check out and follow Grahams channels.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx47nHaxPo2NirUcbnBq4rpV3xulTfERujUTEqyteQgepl-ECoZHWjYcnNDJ_Qcumrclxw3c6ZWL-0K2ublh_qeB651tOHYEw80C_1ieX5VT3HJK_Ekpr5TG7h5Nn0rPRULQGjGmhOiJLJktX3OUOEmJjGe8ZVkvlmVn9Je4RKKgHqwUzjs1O9_EgJ/s4624/20230523_124402.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx47nHaxPo2NirUcbnBq4rpV3xulTfERujUTEqyteQgepl-ECoZHWjYcnNDJ_Qcumrclxw3c6ZWL-0K2ublh_qeB651tOHYEw80C_1ieX5VT3HJK_Ekpr5TG7h5Nn0rPRULQGjGmhOiJLJktX3OUOEmJjGe8ZVkvlmVn9Je4RKKgHqwUzjs1O9_EgJ/w419-h559/20230523_124402.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">What has happened to me is part of a much larger story of how
Australian women are being vilified and silenced when we try to talk about our
concerns how the political agenda of Trans/Queer/Non Binary activists are regressing
womens rights.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Below is a list of Australian women who are daily experiencing
backlash from trans gender ideologues. Please google their names and follow
their social media platforms to learn more and support them. These are some of
the Australian women who are speaking out to stop our rights from being taken
away and to uphold child safeguarding. We are not, and have never been “anti-trans”.
Trans identifiers have rights, none of which they are being deprived of – it is
their demand that women must give up the traditional and status quo rights and
spaces that our female forbears fought for that we are questioning and
resisting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>List of high profile womens rights activists in Australia</b></i></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Angie
Jones, Kathryn Deves, Moira Deeming, Kirralie Smith, Stassja Frei, Sall Grover,
Professor Holly Lawford Smith, Edie Wyatt, Janet Fraser, Rachel Wong, Jasmine
Sussex, Anna Kerr, Jenny Kyng, Kat Karena, Nina Vallins</span></b></i></span></blockquote><p></p><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/?utm_campaign=moira_2305_un_u02_s&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wfa" target="_blank">Womens Forum Australia</a><a href="https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/?utm_campaign=moira_2305_un_u02_s&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wfa" target="_blank"> </a></b></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="(https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/Binar/FMfcgzGsmrJzJsHbFCrRlJzGJJbNJmpj)" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b>Kirralie Smith, convener of Binary</b></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://gigglecrowdfund.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Sall Grover and Giggle crowdfunder</b></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNbOGzEicw0cwKglVrTVVyX3MpQQN7G5n5bBkQimWAY3nUJgxjZJFBpk6fagKeD2k7QW82dkbAJnmbD6dR9Hs3Yp9LgE7cQhaqCHPbwtOkZhD-ra_gOBRqupwaaMj35nYPQ1yf2IuX38My5RU4kUXd1yM2_RwMxNtfFDftQW7gwJE5lCYV5cDX_A5/s4624/20230523_124016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="523" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNbOGzEicw0cwKglVrTVVyX3MpQQN7G5n5bBkQimWAY3nUJgxjZJFBpk6fagKeD2k7QW82dkbAJnmbD6dR9Hs3Yp9LgE7cQhaqCHPbwtOkZhD-ra_gOBRqupwaaMj35nYPQ1yf2IuX38My5RU4kUXd1yM2_RwMxNtfFDftQW7gwJE5lCYV5cDX_A5/w392-h523/20230523_124016.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Thankyou to the people who contacted <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://australianwearableart.com.au/" target="_blank">The Australian WearableArt Festival</a> </span></b>to give them feedback about my expulsion. I heard that the contact
form on their website is now disabled. I think AWAF are hearing from people on
their Facebook and Instagram social media but obviously negative comments are going
to be moderated there too. Somebody observed that if you go to the “buy tickets”
menu on their webpage there is a contact option there that still works. I am
not seeking to be personally reinstated (cobblers chance) but hope you will let them know if you believe it is wrong and unfair to dump a woman artist who was selected on
merit because they fear my belief that men can’t turn into women is going to
cause upset to people who do believe that humans can change the sex they were
born as.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="352" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PfIjxB1h_zg" width="423" youtube-src-id="PfIjxB1h_zg"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It seems to me the Wearable Art Festival thought I was a lone woman with unusual and wrong opinions and that once discarded no one would notice or care. Perhaps they thought I would just go off quietly goosestepping into the sunset, feeling ashamed to be such an opinionated woman? (Vote Daniel Andrews out of govt, he who cynically slurred women speaking up for their rights as "nazis") In one of their emails to me they opined piously that I should reflect on my cancelings and deplatformings as to whether it was time to consider my opinions were wrong. Along with millions of women before me I am glad to be one those women who won't shut up, behave or stop making a fuss when there is justifiable cause. I think AWAF might be surprised to find out I am part of a vast international network of women and men who are actively resisting the incursions of Critical Social Justice Theory. Far from being alone and alienated I believe I am the mainstream.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHYbisI07HpNzGXC8zYUHWztilNK2Bvf6QsWd2D1jJ8uJte0-tAiKZIn7BtwHfuTdw9fMmm1q-5jdaL-kR_YmS8XA4k5q3pniNtdNzS4lkG5aJ6w9i8y7hay8F6HNpifS2ohz48I9YOSqJblk6xaGtc2Or2Xt8hqOWCdhCjaGm94wC-u2oXZP3Ypji/s4624/20230523_122401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHYbisI07HpNzGXC8zYUHWztilNK2Bvf6QsWd2D1jJ8uJte0-tAiKZIn7BtwHfuTdw9fMmm1q-5jdaL-kR_YmS8XA4k5q3pniNtdNzS4lkG5aJ6w9i8y7hay8F6HNpifS2ohz48I9YOSqJblk6xaGtc2Or2Xt8hqOWCdhCjaGm94wC-u2oXZP3Ypji/w477-h358/20230523_122401.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My art has
never been the least bit political. I’m not a post modernist and have never
desired to plaster political slogans on my work. I am a woman textile artist
working with the traditional mediums of women and interpreting textile
embellishment in a contemporary paradigm.</span> Until 6 years ago in all the
decades of my art practise there was never any inclination to make public
political statements. I kept personal my far left opinions and having voted Greens for 40
years as it had no relevance to my art making. It is only because I am truly
alarmed that the ascendance of Critical Social Justice Theory is a massive
threat to womens rights and the stable, successful flourishing of our
democratic societies that I’m motivated to come forward wanting to talk with
others who have the same concerns.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuuO0S-04--TmXsDM6-7GHekXPvCc-o95c733FDsvuMk8BYQ85c1A7Kqwsub8cEmllX7ry8xB3nN90bkOtXXrY29XS1Dtgo5tR5Wxgh1CP12-ZFxitAUW-VvvZKGJQpx9wcDlEfqzmGEI58DQG0fVrmOmdrDcgRdI0T4PukRsNV3ndDWQ244c1_fQ/s4624/20230605_115533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuuO0S-04--TmXsDM6-7GHekXPvCc-o95c733FDsvuMk8BYQ85c1A7Kqwsub8cEmllX7ry8xB3nN90bkOtXXrY29XS1Dtgo5tR5Wxgh1CP12-ZFxitAUW-VvvZKGJQpx9wcDlEfqzmGEI58DQG0fVrmOmdrDcgRdI0T4PukRsNV3ndDWQ244c1_fQ/w419-h558/20230605_115533.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">I am
overjoyed to let readers know there are still curators and gallery owners that
don’t bend over to accommodate the bullying and intimidation tactics of anti
womens rights activists. My Sydney exhibition “Tangled Webs She Wove” will
still be shown at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/balmainspace/" style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Balmain Space</a><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">located at </span><span style="color: #222222;">79
Beattie St, Balmain, opening on Friday July 8</span></span><sup style="color: #222222;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I intend to
complete the wearable artwork that AWAF would have shown on the runway at the Gold Coast Festival – Wedding Gown for Woman to Marry Her Garden – and the finished garment will be on
display in the gallery. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You can also book to attend a 2 hour workshop on Sunday
9</span><sup style="color: #222222;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">/16</span><sup style="color: #222222;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> or Saturday 22</span><sup style="color: #222222;">nd</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> July with me to learn some
of my textile art technique. All welcome, including trans/queer/non binary,
though I won’t use your preferred pronouns.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-92002188165700854292023-06-08T12:48:00.005+10:002023-06-09T08:26:57.959+10:00Expelled from the Australian Wearable Art Festival, part 3<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyK6M_w668A&lc=Ugx5h_-Ntj56x8-9Zv94AaABAg.9qe9ANGvkIq9qg0ORxPncZ&ab_channel=Reasoned" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> TERF WARS - the Women the Left Fear the Most DOCUMENTARY</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">I doubt there is any possibility I could be reinstated as a
finalist in the Australian Wearable Art Festival 2023. Selected on merit then dumped for having a “hot potato” belief. I get the impression the organisers
hope their problem is contained in just me personally and now that I am
expelled everything will be just hunky dory and dinky di. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Problem solved – now
that the woman with the reprehensible beliefs has been thrown overboard they can get
on with navigating the passenger ship through the ice field.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyU8Qm1EfHeXLzO80y3QHlWIYEMWqhMTuw8a8N915o1PFzn0J40hfeTmlaUZl1nDm70Ss_7tr9m3lqlhhaVS0a67LO0kYHFZjYaH8t68LyVdy_C0n5cyJJSdW8qamiXBr-Lj83OByVsW1ytXcY8odtbmIJqiNuXA_IRlrw9odJ6JmFT_NC1sphBGs-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyU8Qm1EfHeXLzO80y3QHlWIYEMWqhMTuw8a8N915o1PFzn0J40hfeTmlaUZl1nDm70Ss_7tr9m3lqlhhaVS0a67LO0kYHFZjYaH8t68LyVdy_C0n5cyJJSdW8qamiXBr-Lj83OByVsW1ytXcY8odtbmIJqiNuXA_IRlrw9odJ6JmFT_NC1sphBGs-=w318-h318" width="318" /></a></div>generated this in AI<br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">I think the "she's right now, mate" hope will likely end up as wishful thinking. In
workplaces, organisations and communities around Australia people are being
confronted and polarised by what trans gender ideology is demanding we believe.
Its their way or the highway. It was conceded in emails that my views made them
fearful of disruption from LGBTQUIA+ and dumping me was a way of trying to protect the
Wearable Art Festival from public controversy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It anguishes me that the organisers and myself find
ourselves in this situation where they believe there is the possibility of an
existential threat to their business that I might be the cause of it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In future, textile artists applying to enter AWAF will need
to understand that believing men can’t turn into women makes it possible their application
may get rejected because that belief is too “hot potato”. Perhaps it
will become necessary to trawl through each applicant’s social media postings
in case they have ever said anything vaguely critical of Trans/Queer/Non Binary
identifiers? By expelling me AWAF have demonstrated that a finalist who supports
Gender Critical Feminism is likely going to be unacceptable and they fear being
associated with them. In this way, they are propagating to others the same
fears they have already taken on.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgRFYfRExY7KQgGUmVPO1-OvfWk8eo1nKCiPIcg2wLZTumATwoiSxFzipHFdVjvotQPWAa4bn4NcmFRmTVS6pN6a-nEPvEdXScSAkm9_rkpD5blIVMuJTbqTqpoEV0Qlt38HeYSZ0X4ePtUEGEQKWRkWacWjRlB7yh4-eYqIz-KNF10CgiJZtsPQ-/s4624/AWAF%20P%20Moon%20Headdress%20right%20side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgRFYfRExY7KQgGUmVPO1-OvfWk8eo1nKCiPIcg2wLZTumATwoiSxFzipHFdVjvotQPWAa4bn4NcmFRmTVS6pN6a-nEPvEdXScSAkm9_rkpD5blIVMuJTbqTqpoEV0Qlt38HeYSZ0X4ePtUEGEQKWRkWacWjRlB7yh4-eYqIz-KNF10CgiJZtsPQ-/w372-h496/AWAF%20P%20Moon%20Headdress%20right%20side.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Its surreal that Wendy and Helen view me as a potentially disruptive
problem for the Australian Wearable Art Festival. The three of us share a
passion for textile art. I started making art to wear clothes around 1983 and work
full time as a textile artist. Wendy and Helen are significantly invested in a
business that promotes art to wear. Wendy told me she is an admirer of my art
and has followed my blog for some time. Sadly, along with 945 others she can no
longer follow my account on Instagram after it was hacked and shut down in April by a mens rights activist going by the moniker “Dr Panti Bliss Cabrera”.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During our phone chat I discovered Wendy had been in the audience
at the old “Benson and Hedges Fashion Awards” back in New Zealand in 1986. The
B&H was an early forerunner of the now world famous ‘World of Wearable
Art” still held in New Zealand (I am a NZer by birth). I was in the audience
too as one of my garments had been selected and got modelled on stage. I called
it “The Aviator” and the ensemble had a close fitting fabric helmet that is the
same pattern I used for the headdress made for my AWAF entry. Regrettably I’ve
lost all the pictures I had from that time and can’t show my original Aviator
to readers. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Heres some pics of the headdress for “Wedding Dress for Woman
Marrying Her Garden”. The tall sides are supported by being stitched to the
close fitting cloth helmet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFJtvf_an4Y18d8DL9sMFNbxJbl4BDM7TmAm1_Y4AoEflrbnfTf2gSQFzAyHUx844lRYPiTnvthlQ7tyOo02KVZx37qHWmMibZ_-wMqInzlsvSDq9DtGBQk81httuwJuSiEFWa8msvPWlYb-Ed3iaWZtgarAow71JWP3K8TIncjAdaf8Mrai2_Oslm/s4624/20230521_152025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFJtvf_an4Y18d8DL9sMFNbxJbl4BDM7TmAm1_Y4AoEflrbnfTf2gSQFzAyHUx844lRYPiTnvthlQ7tyOo02KVZx37qHWmMibZ_-wMqInzlsvSDq9DtGBQk81httuwJuSiEFWa8msvPWlYb-Ed3iaWZtgarAow71JWP3K8TIncjAdaf8Mrai2_Oslm/w361-h481/20230521_152025.jpg" width="361" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNwqLGKMVtJ2kiBUu0D9D0m1XkdNgbdLubF6xPxQ8VXnjk9sjpRNAz5qdZAiv9vMpO63s1FWfBW4Q8F0I8uC7XnED_hI_iCwWyWQP7KTLjA-6hLlF35HGFrmZvFSyK9OQxWBFnHWB1mhObU_4KumN26dbbagBVuXGiclVP9NqwfTIEXN4inM6R2UT/s4624/20230521_152346.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNwqLGKMVtJ2kiBUu0D9D0m1XkdNgbdLubF6xPxQ8VXnjk9sjpRNAz5qdZAiv9vMpO63s1FWfBW4Q8F0I8uC7XnED_hI_iCwWyWQP7KTLjA-6hLlF35HGFrmZvFSyK9OQxWBFnHWB1mhObU_4KumN26dbbagBVuXGiclVP9NqwfTIEXN4inM6R2UT/w369-h492/20230521_152346.jpg" width="369" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Diving deep into my closets yesterday I pulled out this cape
that I wore on the night of the 1986 B&H fashion parade. I handpainted it on
silk chiffon, the square in the centre is where it is put over the head. I wore
it over a straight white sheath dress that was sashed at the hip, catching down
the front and back hems of the cape, with a wide band tied in a bow (in the picture below, its photographed sideways, pegged to my clothesline with a blue sheet behind it)</p><p class="MsoNormal">Many people
admired my ensemble and I wonder if Wendy noticed it too. How uncanny that now she
probably feels only antagonism toward a woman artist she admired up until
recently.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEcgrvx87zl82qjUj01P0x_CAZnLE86ilPFoCYQgLPq6RrXarlqXkPssV1B5a5g5ZTGECk_S-Jlfvy-tMH4Vv2mmnZ71zUYQ_7aEkE-Wiu5MHZ0cce1MP6f_xvTSuAOPZtbT0qUc-xU9h_ychuLqP4gmCR9ORPv-zYaxYaafdInp--tqMJof28_fFB/s3121/Cape%20from%20NZ.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2158" data-original-width="3121" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEcgrvx87zl82qjUj01P0x_CAZnLE86ilPFoCYQgLPq6RrXarlqXkPssV1B5a5g5ZTGECk_S-Jlfvy-tMH4Vv2mmnZ71zUYQ_7aEkE-Wiu5MHZ0cce1MP6f_xvTSuAOPZtbT0qUc-xU9h_ychuLqP4gmCR9ORPv-zYaxYaafdInp--tqMJof28_fFB/w521-h360/Cape%20from%20NZ.jpeg" width="521" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">I have another exhibition of wearable art due to open in an
inner city Sydney gallery on 8<sup>th</sup> July – “Tangled Webs She Wove” – now
only a month away. I’ve been literally too afraid to announce or talk about it due to fearing anti womens rights activists will target myself, the curator
or the owner of the gallery with their outrage that I get public recognition for
my art.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trans Gender Ideology is not only polarising society between
the believers and the questioners, it actively demonises anyone who resists their
beliefs by slurring us as people who intend oppress and harm LGBTQUIA+. The ideology press
gangs individuals, workplaces and organisations into furthering its dogmatic beliefs by cloaking itself as a “social justice” movement. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I feel like I'm the one who has been harmed, not them.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-26687049624542869262023-06-06T12:34:00.001+10:002023-06-06T12:46:47.933+10:00Expelled from the Australian Wearable Art Festival, part 2<p>Apologies to the Upper Hunter Valley Shire Council and those who
attended the Sustainability and Upcycling talks at Murrurundi Library yesterday. I pulled out
due to the mental health crisis instigated by the cruel and unfair treatment of
the Australian Wearable Art Festival. I felt too shattered to stand up in
public to give my presentation. I should be OK for the events tomorrow and later this month. They will be held at the public libraries in these towns.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0cm;"><b style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Wednesday 7 June: Scone 10am and Aberdeen 2pm</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Wednesday 21 June: Merriwa 10am and Cassilis 2pm</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1f497d;">The picture below is a jacket I made from upcycled denim and</span><span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d;">cotton plaid fabrics in 2020. The pattern is my PDF sewing pattern </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/644978634/zambeesi-jacket-womens-pdf-sewing?click_key=5856f9168b47d818f548e12502d0eede45efedc6%3A644978634&click_sum=4c2d5f82&ref=shop_home_active_16" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">"Zambeesi Jacket"</span></b></a><span style="color: #1f497d;">.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1f497d;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw4rr54Jm7bemH8_il5GXJafneYtjQ3X6V7iIdaJ6eQGBc9xTOs_eKnzNLAHafB-qpE8rpU0PTLUHRxB3JMp9uYnhs1MVsDfw9mXJigTzhUx9AMmmNSH2EgIqfBqBWtImoydtv7KETACfovF6m8K7KRiTFLtP0Q1JBfRXlfDuW-QSUyrJJFziUrGR4/s5152/DSCN2793.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw4rr54Jm7bemH8_il5GXJafneYtjQ3X6V7iIdaJ6eQGBc9xTOs_eKnzNLAHafB-qpE8rpU0PTLUHRxB3JMp9uYnhs1MVsDfw9mXJigTzhUx9AMmmNSH2EgIqfBqBWtImoydtv7KETACfovF6m8K7KRiTFLtP0Q1JBfRXlfDuW-QSUyrJJFziUrGR4/w501-h376/DSCN2793.jpg" width="501" /></a></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">________________________________________________________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve written this blog since 2008 – 15 years – and it may
possibly just disappear into the ether without explanation, in a similar way to
how I’ve been silenced, excluded, banned and blocked from other social media
platforms. Here’s a link to YouTube channel Womens Declaration International, to a video where I discuss in detail my cancelation from social media.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-UrsYEsJ1g&t=14s&ab_channel=Women%27sDeclarationInternational%28WDI%29" target="_blank"><b>Pearl Red Moon statement on Womens Declaration International</b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If the blog gets nuked and you’re curious to know what happens to
me, here is a link to the Substack I publish. Substack is currently a platform that seems impervious to shutting
down counter cultural views - so far….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pearlredmoon.substack.com/" target="_blank"><b>Cosmic Pearl</b></a></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d;">___________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d;">Please watch this to get a sense of the enormity of how
women are being silenced in Australia when we want to speak about our issues. It was published only a few hours ago....prepare to be horrified.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPFtufRYs14&t=1s&ab_channel=TheCourtoftheEDIJester" target="_blank">Court of the EDI Jester</a></b></span></p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;">Incidentally, I left a public comment about that video and it has already been removed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;">__________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;">For anybody who might wonder if I am just a nutty old crone, vegetating in a basement and hating on trannsexuals...here is a link to John Anderson, ex Australian politician who was shadow Deputy Prime Minister in the Liberal government. Anderson has 337,000 followers to his YouTube channel and shares the view that humans cannot change sex and that Queer Theory is a threat to womens rights and the stability of our society.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;">This is a clip, but the whole video is worth watching.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3CeQ6qQlJ8&ab_channel=JohnAnderson" target="_blank"><b>The truth is transphobic</b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;">________________________________________________________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Now to continue explaining my expulsion from the Australian Wearable Art Festival...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">In February 2023 I applied to the Australian Wearable Art
Festival to have my work showcased at their event. I was ecstatic to be advised
on February 26<sup>th</sup>, 2023 that the concept I’d submitted was successful in getting selected. In good faith I proceeded to start
working on my garment. Over the next few months AWAF and I exchanged routine emails about our mutual preparations.</p><p class="MsoNormal">On May 23<sup>rd</sup> I got an email indicating they had concerns that a thing I believe might be a “hot potato”. Obviously this made me
very anxious and I sent 5 emails over the next 9 days seeking to clarify my status.
None of those emails was acknowledged or addressed so on May 31<sup>th</sup> I
rang Wendy and asked to talk. In the phone conversation Wendy told how she had
heard about Kellie-Jay Keen (or Posie Parker, she referred to her as) for the
first time at the end of March this year in relation to the Let Women Speak rallies
in Auckland, New Zealand when Kellie-Jay was mobbed and driven out of the
public park where she had a permit to have a rally. Wendy referred to
Kellie-Jay as “anti trans” and in other comments she made I felt it was implied Keen was an awful woman who
got what she deserved when she was attacked. This left me aghast as I understood
that awfulness was probably getting transferred to me. Eventually we arranged
that Wendy, Helen, my husband (who I often need as an advocate and support
person because I’m autistic) and I would get together for another phone
discussion sometime over the weekend. <o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNEm2Ts4hJDrp_sAF7-Og4SDbg40eu-reH6IxhYl2vYaayFiI1-DdgdvYjg0FAbtOMBrUUbsbp5c-PnXaFeaE4M7sl_lEZndGd89vqhhyrNvs-a_IJuROnzkGgivpVR8FKgGEAMTOh5hyvWRdGO4M6nNE9Zm3WWo2-bRiGzbiM0fS5sc8QfQtsGaE/s4624/20230228_114329.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="571" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNEm2Ts4hJDrp_sAF7-Og4SDbg40eu-reH6IxhYl2vYaayFiI1-DdgdvYjg0FAbtOMBrUUbsbp5c-PnXaFeaE4M7sl_lEZndGd89vqhhyrNvs-a_IJuROnzkGgivpVR8FKgGEAMTOh5hyvWRdGO4M6nNE9Zm3WWo2-bRiGzbiM0fS5sc8QfQtsGaE/w428-h571/20230228_114329.jpg" width="428" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress made from fabrics recycled from a collection of stripey teeshirts</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal">At 3.36 pm on Sunday, June 4<sup>th</sup> I received an email
from them stating I was expelled as a finalist in the Australian Wearable Art
Festival. I presume this is due to having a “stance” that other participants in
the event might disagree with.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As a finalist in AWAF I was one of 40 entrants who were
selected on the merit of their artistic concept. </p><p class="MsoNormal">I wonder how the other 39 feel about my
dumping? I wasn’t invited to join the private WhatsApp and Facebook groups that
the other finalists were given access to. I asked to be joined but it wasn’t
acknowledged. I find it hard to believe that every single one of my fellow 39 finalists
might disagree or find offensive my view that men cannot turn into women. In
truth, I think more than a few of them might be in strident agreement. However, now that they see what the consequences are if they don’t keep quiet it means having to stifle saying anything or get dumped too. Even if they think my view is wrong they might have wanted to just publicly support that I’m
allowed to state my beliefs in a democratic country without getting ejected. If any finalists share my view I wonder how they feel being in a position where
they are required to tacitly endorse Queer Theory?</p><p class="MsoNormal">Having experienced the bullying and silencing tactics of anti-womens rights activists I understand why probably none of them are going to publicly support me. I wouldn't be surprised if they are already hearing from AWAF specifying what they are allowed and not allowed to say publicly.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGFAvu8qVPeHpAw9qHP5Y5sLPbJQJ9WvA5ctRLYDzf0vQypWZNET9Zvw17I04DXW2V1hSHxZeGwnTh5sPKWL3w9H46-7a85A1ns9Fm2d7eHqKzmreOpw7p542SFWbIzUC_RvlhYdIRbIJT0opbH1YiSoqffFyK5rMHGN0oV09blFzULDxh5Q77G6hA/s4624/20230311_090348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGFAvu8qVPeHpAw9qHP5Y5sLPbJQJ9WvA5ctRLYDzf0vQypWZNET9Zvw17I04DXW2V1hSHxZeGwnTh5sPKWL3w9H46-7a85A1ns9Fm2d7eHqKzmreOpw7p542SFWbIzUC_RvlhYdIRbIJT0opbH1YiSoqffFyK5rMHGN0oV09blFzULDxh5Q77G6hA/w431-h575/20230311_090348.jpg" width="431" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">I went to two Let Women Speak rallies in Australia, Sydney
and Canberra. I spoke at the Sydney rally addressing my concerns at how trans
ideology is regressing womens rights. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the rally address I spoke a lot about Critical Social Justice Ideology
(CSJ) and how its adherents take on the mission to “queer” everything in
society they disdain as normative, and especially despised is anything “heteronormative”.
The roots of this transgressive ideology go right back to the mid
20Cth and started out as something fairly anodyne called “post-modernism”. I was
an enthusiastic young acolyte of it myself until the late 1980s. Then four
years of living in the notorious cult “Centrepoint Community” gave me the lived
experience of what happens when heteronormative gets queered. Essentially women
and children got sexually exploited by men who insisted normative boundaries are
limiting Kumbaya being realised. Love is love! </p><p class="MsoNormal">I learned boundaries are good and necessary to protect women and
children. I am fighting for them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">_____________________________________________________________________</p><p class="MsoNormal">If you feel I have been unfairly treated by AWAF and want to let them know you disagree with my expulsion, here is a link to their contact form.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://australianwearableart.com.au/contact/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">AWAF contact</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also, you might like to take a look at the Australian Wearable Art Festival Facebook page. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/australianwearableart/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b>AWAF Facebook</b></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you attend the event I hope you'll enjoy it and probably best not to wear your teeshirt that says "Adult Human Female". Those words are now considered transphobic and women have lost their jobs for wearing them in public.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I'll have more to say tomorrow.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-8214073599463334482023-06-05T13:36:00.000+10:002023-06-05T13:36:56.617+10:00Expelled from the Australian Wearable Art Festival, part 1<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday, about 15 minutes after publishing my Going Nowhere blog post, I received an email confirming I am expelled as a finalist in the Australian
Wearable Art Festival.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My expulsion is due to my public stance defending womens
rights. The organisers of the festival, Wendy and Helen feared there would be
backlash from the Trans/Queer/Non binary (TQ) people involved in the event if I was
present. A particular focus of their concern was ensuring the backstage area
should be a “safe space for everyone”. The backstage is of course where the
models change into the garments that are going out onto the runway and get
their makeup done. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocqfRqot6oF9_1oJ6IHf_FW71_Ns8asQse4zoz0K3B8dOHV1gk_AXr3moC6tsfFQ54L6gFzJw8pEx0eEBkTN6v5eN4i7f4V-93fcvUyRXrPNLM6_lebRa5YPONRsx01oXF6IAqcFaDS-WGGwL3Sdk-SuojjryloJ3kAh7g0lxXA_Ko98TwrfEJ1kQ/s4624/20230605_115547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="699" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocqfRqot6oF9_1oJ6IHf_FW71_Ns8asQse4zoz0K3B8dOHV1gk_AXr3moC6tsfFQ54L6gFzJw8pEx0eEBkTN6v5eN4i7f4V-93fcvUyRXrPNLM6_lebRa5YPONRsx01oXF6IAqcFaDS-WGGwL3Sdk-SuojjryloJ3kAh7g0lxXA_Ko98TwrfEJ1kQ/w524-h699/20230605_115547.jpg" width="524" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Initially Helen, Wendy and I were going to have a phone conversation
on Sunday but I got the email cancelling me instead so there wasn’t a chance to
have a discussion about what happens backstage. If it had happened I did plan to
ask what were the privacy arrangements for women who are getting dressed
and undressed. It seems likely that backstage there may be men who say they
are women, identifying as trans women and non binary. I am pretty sure the
toilet facilities will be unisex and that correct pronouns may be enforced.
And if any or all of that is true, it would have made me uncomfortable.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The foremost thing that makes me uncomfortable is that there
is no consultation with how women feel being put in that possible situation. While some
might have no misgivings at all, others may feel differently. A conservative
Muslim woman would most definitely not allow herself to be in that position. Therefore
a conservative Muslim woman would either not apply to enter the Wearable Art
Festival, or have to make other arrangements backstage for her dignity, privacy
and religious obligations. What happened to the much vaunted TQ assertions that
they uphold “diversity and inclusiveness”?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqyQs1dSd8-6R9ZKNd5tKkUVR6YL9A8qHNsCHsFljI7KLyrWnSDT4JbTBE0KY63XeXic2CTlqmTgSXHA3aqHXRBowfSctP-YlP4aFtJKvtgYHIVx3QlB1XMI2sPhJJo6_6EYDmVsKWm62KtotjgVUpGHdH5n-m3rmD2BJzC5d0iB9moFo6t6wa9fU/s4624/20230605_115533.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqyQs1dSd8-6R9ZKNd5tKkUVR6YL9A8qHNsCHsFljI7KLyrWnSDT4JbTBE0KY63XeXic2CTlqmTgSXHA3aqHXRBowfSctP-YlP4aFtJKvtgYHIVx3QlB1XMI2sPhJJo6_6EYDmVsKWm62KtotjgVUpGHdH5n-m3rmD2BJzC5d0iB9moFo6t6wa9fU/w464-h619/20230605_115533.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">This scenario neatly encapsulates many of the problems I
have with the imposition of TQ ideology. Women are put in circumstances where
we are directly impacted and not consulted about how we feel about our right to
privacy and dignity. If we express discomfort or concerns we are scorned as bigots
and transphobes. If we express them too publicly, you can lose your job or be
cancelled off social media. Or get expelled from the Australian Wearable Art Festival.
That we have a right to speak and not be shamed or coerced into going along
with things we disagree with is not given any respect. It seems that the right of
men to claim rainbow identities will always override the concerns of women and
give them a free pass into spaces that have been segregated exclusively for
women until recently.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUX_zCu83x6ByWNHqUsrIpiU8vxp2VSYNVOb1nIW4DGqYbanJP31eXZ9wDUsEMVP5L7OIts0zbTYFZmelvZUmN3eSpzXgQEyn2bL-lL4gNVo9mh0Hqvjnh9l7VK7-cVYQc-tUUz_Oa9bYZhzYnuTrVmd6cAivD8qTYd9nDoEuN4iTCt1JP1XsQy3L0/s4624/20230605_115627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUX_zCu83x6ByWNHqUsrIpiU8vxp2VSYNVOb1nIW4DGqYbanJP31eXZ9wDUsEMVP5L7OIts0zbTYFZmelvZUmN3eSpzXgQEyn2bL-lL4gNVo9mh0Hqvjnh9l7VK7-cVYQc-tUUz_Oa9bYZhzYnuTrVmd6cAivD8qTYd9nDoEuN4iTCt1JP1XsQy3L0/w468-h624/20230605_115627.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">I’ll continue this blog post tomorrow as I'm still in a state of extreme distress and upset. </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m incredibly grateful
to the people both online and in my local community today who are rallying around to
support me.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Below is a link to the contact form of the Australian Wearable Art Festival. If you think I have been unfairly discriminated against please send the organisers an email to let them know you think they made a wrong decision.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://australianwearableart.com.au/contact/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Contact AWAF</a><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-83843327061578166952023-06-04T15:20:00.000+10:002023-06-04T15:20:00.085+10:00Going nowhere<p>Various forces are working very successfully toward completely obliterating my presence on social media and anywhere else in public.</p><p>It is with sorrow that I doubt my artwork "Wedding Gown for a Woman Marrying her Garden" will ever get modelled in public.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybdjZfeDDnww3YU52yC5uKr__iK_05O7LRDVHtU_hYByzD5mr8v_A0R795SluW0_PD7CPNJpx2bHsz664aHA-fuSgVHRqg_V-ueF-qdIcWEdQWHMJlhJb6SJOWFw3CPEA80qAee8pWArekJTpCAUj95r_ZHDNgbkh1NqOwAMLo4-NODFMNSBMSmNT/s4624/20230604_133900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybdjZfeDDnww3YU52yC5uKr__iK_05O7LRDVHtU_hYByzD5mr8v_A0R795SluW0_PD7CPNJpx2bHsz664aHA-fuSgVHRqg_V-ueF-qdIcWEdQWHMJlhJb6SJOWFw3CPEA80qAee8pWArekJTpCAUj95r_ZHDNgbkh1NqOwAMLo4-NODFMNSBMSmNT/w448-h597/20230604_133900.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This picture of my workspace shows how hard I work to make sense out of chaos.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBYyEqaBWEWyaM4_81CMLF_rrWNCJ6vixZO_KrgKvQHzqyhiGKVO6IVY2wNXKNiM1dsaX4FbSrixCLVymhLHGF62dUgWrlXTF0gUdFvdKikSzdbTHobNXXh89hv_HupQ0NgYUb2DL9-_l4eoDcOTlBfwov6pUdd1n423bjkvv4542dd40BQaRBFyjZ/s4624/20230604_133847.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBYyEqaBWEWyaM4_81CMLF_rrWNCJ6vixZO_KrgKvQHzqyhiGKVO6IVY2wNXKNiM1dsaX4FbSrixCLVymhLHGF62dUgWrlXTF0gUdFvdKikSzdbTHobNXXh89hv_HupQ0NgYUb2DL9-_l4eoDcOTlBfwov6pUdd1n423bjkvv4542dd40BQaRBFyjZ/w448-h597/20230604_133847.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><p>But sometmes the forces of chaos cannot be constrained and when powerfully driven by male-volent forces little things are always going to get overwhelmed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-24325539925030564892023-06-02T12:28:00.004+10:002023-06-02T12:28:57.055+10:00Local sustainability talks and Garden Wedding dress update<p> Local followers of my blog may be interested to know I've been invited back by the Upper Hunter Shire Council to give another talk for World Sustainability Day, as I did last year too. I'll be talking about why I base my art practise on principles of environmental sustainability, especially in regard to upcycling clothes and textiles. The talk will last about 10-15 minutes then I'll show and discuss some my latest upcycled fabrics and clothing and answer any questions people want to ask me. </p><p>It would be wonderful to meet any of you in person if you were close enough to come along.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2JbCy6kFwRXqOiKIUcNmHmBKh0LZU_NUUa_oup9d9Ps61WSWxf8mEHznWFv7VnqXhplYQUQ3-GTb2ctpMatlRVloD8HKsviLtoUGjrcbfOJ727DbqvYd21smpZ9Mp1Mo7KN8b81LMlKRKPK2pdzw4AEfzfVNm_tTWXnhomKl5laZtsxqq3LvZZGn/s3646/Sustainability%20poster.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="2718" height="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2JbCy6kFwRXqOiKIUcNmHmBKh0LZU_NUUa_oup9d9Ps61WSWxf8mEHznWFv7VnqXhplYQUQ3-GTb2ctpMatlRVloD8HKsviLtoUGjrcbfOJ727DbqvYd21smpZ9Mp1Mo7KN8b81LMlKRKPK2pdzw4AEfzfVNm_tTWXnhomKl5laZtsxqq3LvZZGn/w429-h575/Sustainability%20poster.jpeg" width="429" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>This picture of the promo poster advertises the other speakers and what their specific topic will cover. Our first event is at Murrurundi Library on Monday June 5th next week. Then we will bring the discussion to other public libraries of these other Hunter Valley towns on additional dates -</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;"><b style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wednesday 7 June: Scone and Aberdeen</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Wednesday 21 June: Merriwa and Cassilis.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p>Meantime....back to labouring on the farm...I did a lot of work yesterday on the garment I'm making for the <span style="background-color: white; color: red;">Australian Wearable Art Festival </span><span style="background-color: white;">- despite Lulus best efforts to peck everything apart!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Its gotten to the stage where I was able to pin it to one of my dress forms with stiffening inserted at the hemline to make the front, back and sides stand out rigidly so that the sculptural form I had visualised in the original concept is</span><span style="background-color: white;"> getting closer to being realised.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="426" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PfIjxB1h_zg" width="512" youtube-src-id="PfIjxB1h_zg"></iframe></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-33061561974861535972023-06-01T11:15:00.003+10:002023-06-01T16:23:43.632+10:00My apprentice is totally a Galah<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/DG5zbUZSQT8" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DG5zbUZSQT8/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p>My husband and I love birds and keep 14 of them as pets.</p><p>Lucy Lou, is an Australian native parrot that we call a Galah. Americans usually refer to her species as a Pink Breasted Cockatoo. Galahs are numerous in Australia and as I live in a rural area there are literally flocks of them in my yard most days. Along with King Parrots, Rosellas and all sorts of adorable little finches.</p><p>We've had Lulu for nearly a year, since she was about 6 weeks hatched (when we first got her I had to hand feed her liquid formula) and she is extremely tame. Lulu, and another one of our parrots, Rozita, who is an Eclectus female, live freely in our house and have never been caged.</p><p>Lulu interacts with us during the day as we go about doing things in our house. She absolutely loves beads and textile art. She is so naughty I literally can't do any beading or stitching with her in the room as she will want to take the scissors or needles out of my fingers. She will bite, screech and fight to take fabric, beads and needles off me. To get any textile art done without harassment I have to shut her in the conservatory or leave the house altogether and go to my studio to get any hands on work done.</p><p>This morning I made this video of Lulu playing around on my part made garment for the Australian Wearable Art Festival which is hanging in my lounge room.</p></div>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-81822905061858133592023-05-27T16:35:00.002+10:002023-05-27T17:51:56.864+10:00Progress on Garden Wedding Dress<p> A week ago I started creating the dress that is my entry for the <a href="https://venue114.com.au/events/australian-wearable-art-festival/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">Australian Wearable Art Festival.</span></b></a></p><p>I want the surface to be very textured so that motifs look raised and floating above the background.</p><p>For inspiration I consulted one of my favourite textile art refernce books - The Art of Manipulating Fabric, by Colette Wolff. This book is brilliant but for anyone seeking it out it may be hard to find as the original edition was printed in 1996. As I have been doing textile art for nearing 40 years I have accumulated quite a substantial reference library and note many books in the collection have been out of print for decades.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jVjOsgxP1Kl-06KmP5Q77lA-eAyVKfyR2_aQPh9Q-M40agZPH2H9G-ZOp5omd2KqxUKZEjwGC5wJbaZYiNoG6dLkFvYByG3so7z82U1fJmdHEoOFaflGw7yxKGFwBidjgU9URtW6ZB2VpWxtyM3jTFuMcLyi0NnPCfd7XW0WUSzIOtbN4oI9kAQS/s4035/whole%20dress.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4035" data-original-width="3399" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jVjOsgxP1Kl-06KmP5Q77lA-eAyVKfyR2_aQPh9Q-M40agZPH2H9G-ZOp5omd2KqxUKZEjwGC5wJbaZYiNoG6dLkFvYByG3so7z82U1fJmdHEoOFaflGw7yxKGFwBidjgU9URtW6ZB2VpWxtyM3jTFuMcLyi0NnPCfd7XW0WUSzIOtbN4oI9kAQS/w451-h534/whole%20dress.jpeg" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8M84n69zy9iGFI63bppeozTQ3K7nCaTcI2PLfRpMVvuxDD2byiWPr0gw6OgtEIeGo3qrBzJcf-TcntDYPAVgE2o6Itzh74xbVsXVOHOg7f_PMAwVgZ9W7cRFt6IYTOua97jVyPuohCg7gxV_Ew2ld00CYfOzfVqv1E6p40RqvD37lL0ZW5Aa9vr4/s3768/lower%20skirt.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3768" data-original-width="3410" height="521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8M84n69zy9iGFI63bppeozTQ3K7nCaTcI2PLfRpMVvuxDD2byiWPr0gw6OgtEIeGo3qrBzJcf-TcntDYPAVgE2o6Itzh74xbVsXVOHOg7f_PMAwVgZ9W7cRFt6IYTOua97jVyPuohCg7gxV_Ew2ld00CYfOzfVqv1E6p40RqvD37lL0ZW5Aa9vr4/w472-h521/lower%20skirt.jpeg" width="472" /></a></div><br /><p>At this very early stage the dress looks quite soft and limpid but if you refer back to the illustration of my concept garment in the blog post previous to this you can see how the hemline at completion will be a rigid square. That will be quite easily achieved when the surface is finished by making channels along the hem that will have stiff plastic threaded into them. If necessary to achieve a very structured look I could also make vertical channels along the seams to make the dress stand out from the waist down.</p><p>The pink background fabric was a nylon curtain. Its there as backing to support all the decorative elements as they get stitched on.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtG6h3iiiBzVzfBQfux_DTSznOxC5Qj1L-e2KRvsCCFocTc29kQsyjb1lMe_XUutRpbPCCJm0igrWnSePX3LBeHjPmSyn94TGdthsU0FeFS4wdjeCYvPhkjHSmoL6kLVZIcjOC6535LDfXAKHCkG_oXZZCD1oiCagr2xgOw7lgKOvWoIVwwSYaXkAD/s4624/spread%20on%20table.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtG6h3iiiBzVzfBQfux_DTSznOxC5Qj1L-e2KRvsCCFocTc29kQsyjb1lMe_XUutRpbPCCJm0igrWnSePX3LBeHjPmSyn94TGdthsU0FeFS4wdjeCYvPhkjHSmoL6kLVZIcjOC6535LDfXAKHCkG_oXZZCD1oiCagr2xgOw7lgKOvWoIVwwSYaXkAD/w591-h443/spread%20on%20table.jpg" width="591" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>I'm really happy with progress so far but anticipate working on for another couple of weeks yet as I want the surface to be really dense with embellishment.<br /><p><br /></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-81866700891298307032023-05-22T13:01:00.004+10:002023-05-22T16:41:06.093+10:00Australian Wearable Art Festival 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmn5Yr3Ib4HiRIzD4CCxlqQTx4rdsgAy8EFuV5BrSHquKm5ilFjIsLy5Gwd4YaH4gp20BTQm_oDWA_nEs2SkatdsGOS_CgXV-7wi8baRhJTCC_we_Gyt7Ni8a-RfJlfZqWgYEOON9_Tk-d4qWE7wz5pXfB_XZtYoIt06xXtwVGQjQ4uYK_BfgpTK0U/s4139/AWAF%20P%20Moon%20entry%20concept.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4139" data-original-width="2509" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmn5Yr3Ib4HiRIzD4CCxlqQTx4rdsgAy8EFuV5BrSHquKm5ilFjIsLy5Gwd4YaH4gp20BTQm_oDWA_nEs2SkatdsGOS_CgXV-7wi8baRhJTCC_we_Gyt7Ni8a-RfJlfZqWgYEOON9_Tk-d4qWE7wz5pXfB_XZtYoIt06xXtwVGQjQ4uYK_BfgpTK0U/w373-h616/AWAF%20P%20Moon%20entry%20concept.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> I'm proud to announce having been selected as one of 40 finalists for the <a href="https://australianwearableart.com.au/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Australian Wearable Art Festival 2023.</span></b></a> This awesome event will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland over 2 days on August 11/12th, 2023.<p></p><div>Above is the concept picture I submitted when I applied to enter. The picture was a collage created by gluing on pictures of other surfaces from garments I've made in the past. Mostly they were taken from my 2019 coat called "Coat for a Bohemian Princess".</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OaNWevDWi3pL6YhzHOxd4vFheRUjRulLwT9XU2NZSxGQ3oWHkeoX7bBjy9o7Sr3t_6rXnQWbNPssW5ExqVXKY-G70s9Spxf9Iut4VnHsPC0u4GGTn81veDL8FisoQJnW4PfAJn89q77d4FOIj130cyrwlhwmMQvbdJFGHYqyuy3bQVTsSKi5JSHD/s5312/20190511_192738.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5312" data-original-width="2988" height="708" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OaNWevDWi3pL6YhzHOxd4vFheRUjRulLwT9XU2NZSxGQ3oWHkeoX7bBjy9o7Sr3t_6rXnQWbNPssW5ExqVXKY-G70s9Spxf9Iut4VnHsPC0u4GGTn81veDL8FisoQJnW4PfAJn89q77d4FOIj130cyrwlhwmMQvbdJFGHYqyuy3bQVTsSKi5JSHD/w398-h708/20190511_192738.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><br /> </div><div>At the time of entering my vision for AWAF I was uncertain what to name the concept garment, but after much brain racking I've settled on "Wedding Gown for a Woman to Marry Her Garden".</div><div><br /></div><div>In the last week I finished the headdress and have now started making the dress. Though the dress looks simple in the illustration, it will be quite an epic production. The most challenging bit to construct will be the hem as it is square and rigid. The garment will be effectively hang suspended from the models shoulders. Rather than making the dress from conventional cloth pieces I've built a frame and have started filling in the spaces which comprise the 4 sides.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm somewhat restricted in what I can show as part of my committment to help the Festival succeed is not to reveal the entire finished garment until the night of the parade on August 11th.</div><div><br /></div><div>So here is one picture only of the headdress to serve as a little tantaliser.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDOtx4RBAQclw4gMSNd87B2ZGu9l2ZLx-2z0lDrnQWPO4miec7uGBRXPFTOUbOzqfOWDtZXA3345B9xf2YmEVzqu3AwykMzqmtbgx8LxWg1JFHqcMn5zfIt3s8h-2bpDHS_i-p8RKYBuNJ3lFH9ikMs0dya8NE-xpDd07Pl_h8ruNo8P-bh0SnMtYH/s4402/AWAF%20P%20Moon%20Headdress%20front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4402" data-original-width="2935" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDOtx4RBAQclw4gMSNd87B2ZGu9l2ZLx-2z0lDrnQWPO4miec7uGBRXPFTOUbOzqfOWDtZXA3345B9xf2YmEVzqu3AwykMzqmtbgx8LxWg1JFHqcMn5zfIt3s8h-2bpDHS_i-p8RKYBuNJ3lFH9ikMs0dya8NE-xpDd07Pl_h8ruNo8P-bh0SnMtYH/w386-h580/AWAF%20P%20Moon%20Headdress%20front.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-46060454228629269512023-04-23T14:37:00.001+10:002023-04-23T14:39:33.268+10:00Garb Age exhibition, the full tour<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://rumble.com/v2jwrvi-video-tour-of-garb-age-exhibition.html" target="_blank">Garb Age exhibition, full tour</a> </b></span></p><p>I'll be gradually shutting down my YouTube channel - Pearl Red Moon Artist.</p><p>Due to my wrongthink political opinions I have already received 2 strikes on YouTube and are currently shadow banned, so its likely only a matter of time before they delete my entire channel. </p><p><br /></p><p>Going forward I'll be uploading videos to my newly started Rumble channel - </p><p>Pearl Red Moon Textile Artist.</p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-21805647356026888612023-04-23T13:36:00.000+10:002023-04-23T13:36:01.198+10:00short Tour of Garb Age<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/bX97M-Balcg" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Short tour of my wearable art exhibition.Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-41428991854715461562023-03-28T17:05:00.006+11:002023-03-28T17:17:02.489+11:00Beautiful things and sewage<p>Its five
days until the opening of my art show in Murrurundi. The picture shows the hours it will be open. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9c_Bg7Om5VP0LuulD_FRcj-UFjqrRfz-vRAqFsVsCPv47_fZWyGKFzzMEcNIWVELQQF9WXfENH9RN5Kw8wVjvMxqJlrlyyrK77wIdn8XWB8eRv0iYtTvgjxCpdoj-zE3rRyCMjmxfuM-3qBtalxxKgoV38qQkrPjaY2esh_1A40JM24RsZyUTHPsw/s1243/times.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="1243" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9c_Bg7Om5VP0LuulD_FRcj-UFjqrRfz-vRAqFsVsCPv47_fZWyGKFzzMEcNIWVELQQF9WXfENH9RN5Kw8wVjvMxqJlrlyyrK77wIdn8XWB8eRv0iYtTvgjxCpdoj-zE3rRyCMjmxfuM-3qBtalxxKgoV38qQkrPjaY2esh_1A40JM24RsZyUTHPsw/w423-h422/times.jpeg" width="423" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p>The venue is the lovely historic Old Tattersalls
Hotel, located on the corner Adelaide and Haydon Streets at Murrurundi, NSW.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaxxswb_BBu_SucXbCWmsZXVh_RLm0nw_lDchRLy9X7KB7b2VAy-q7ajSLfY5Lesdu1aN__6kbrb20bEokR3aSQesbOsbOQwuwJUabp3FeS7DP3Qn0pfNccw5L_ELg3Rgok3MDepNkpBKLNj5gcVjTrSDco8Yh_lYrSiCZUz7nQlS3-bfDRvsWzz_/s4257/Tattersalls.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3193" data-original-width="4257" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaxxswb_BBu_SucXbCWmsZXVh_RLm0nw_lDchRLy9X7KB7b2VAy-q7ajSLfY5Lesdu1aN__6kbrb20bEokR3aSQesbOsbOQwuwJUabp3FeS7DP3Qn0pfNccw5L_ELg3Rgok3MDepNkpBKLNj5gcVjTrSDco8Yh_lYrSiCZUz7nQlS3-bfDRvsWzz_/w562-h422/Tattersalls.jpeg" width="562" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I’ve shown quite a few of the garments made for the show here, but not all. I
try to video record the process of making many of the pieces but as I always
struggle with the video cam technology and the editing programs, quite a few
videos end up failed.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzzGtzXmrmET20N0s9AglfQmR24_x0oUI8cnAF93ifgIDPWzTespuhB77pwNi7E2keB5SZmoiS_ZP0HNPV8hpIhRz5s2ZZGGRDiJF4a0krrRT9PPZTjZ1Wz5yJfnQXh80y6kUuk2SpmDpkHKK4yJ-k4myhWpWYrDGry2scO6YdB9KQgkLQNE4eGsZ/s4624/detail%20close.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="603" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzzGtzXmrmET20N0s9AglfQmR24_x0oUI8cnAF93ifgIDPWzTespuhB77pwNi7E2keB5SZmoiS_ZP0HNPV8hpIhRz5s2ZZGGRDiJF4a0krrRT9PPZTjZ1Wz5yJfnQXh80y6kUuk2SpmDpkHKK4yJ-k4myhWpWYrDGry2scO6YdB9KQgkLQNE4eGsZ/w452-h603/detail%20close.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">My husband
and I will be manning the gallery floor so if you have a chance to call in it
would be lovely to meet you and talk about textile art.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Before the show finishes I will load
up a video tour around the gallery floor. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fsndPnMfMjya_tAaeUvYw--UNQ_32jcjiYX-1q_W3G6_nJ7gOHk2Ur_Dh4ulKJ_K4wwZQ1NjBtzB_f29lwBzc6MiTZUkLuS4iPhpJNW6dHVRRsCsmuq01TcD4hXhOdwSX431cstJwTljo5FYOADDChtysrZb7RKFKy2VK64qwyzFDEhqXfYr4GTD/s4624/Squiggly%20bodice.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="599" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fsndPnMfMjya_tAaeUvYw--UNQ_32jcjiYX-1q_W3G6_nJ7gOHk2Ur_Dh4ulKJ_K4wwZQ1NjBtzB_f29lwBzc6MiTZUkLuS4iPhpJNW6dHVRRsCsmuq01TcD4hXhOdwSX431cstJwTljo5FYOADDChtysrZb7RKFKy2VK64qwyzFDEhqXfYr4GTD/w450-h599/Squiggly%20bodice.jpg" width="450" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Long term
followers might realise I have been through some weird shit over the last 5 years –
starting with the appropriation and mass manufacturing of copies of my work, my
inability to assert my legal copyright to have the platforms enabling the sale of the
fake garments to take down the images, being accused of being a racist during the kimono fracas, various
cancelations around social media, more, more…
Dealing with all this stuff has been seriously distracting to my art practice,
has lead to heightened levels of anxiety and at times left me feeling quite
fragile and broken. The common factor in having been exposed to all this is
social media. A great deal of the time I feel its like a open sewer running
through my home. Fetid and stinking. Being on the spectrum I have a tendency to
fall into obsessive compulsive thinking. This is actually a benefit in my artmaking
as I have an inherent ability to focus intensely and a passion for organising tiny
details. But when it comes to social media I can’t separate as a passive
observer and it activates an addictive response in me where I feel compelled to
keep seeking solutions to the problems in front of my eyes. In the last few years I’d reasonably calculate having wasted at least 50% of the time I could have spent far more productively
and joyously on my artmaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVhjinQqcn9XBIQXhkrFAI4DRr8DN7UaIn_uxXHQJeWfzoqjlRdvR2bwGesQSpN5rUTR2j4FVvJh1uBHDx1r6MqR103Lnd48-BGs0QnTQfFtVcIjguEg1jiZlsE3d8qVa51RFABoXvPe3qPvTtpHVYPukmUrM_j6kUliiRESftZ6jAJJmHeO10lNc/s4087/Squiggly.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4087" data-original-width="2770" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVhjinQqcn9XBIQXhkrFAI4DRr8DN7UaIn_uxXHQJeWfzoqjlRdvR2bwGesQSpN5rUTR2j4FVvJh1uBHDx1r6MqR103Lnd48-BGs0QnTQfFtVcIjguEg1jiZlsE3d8qVa51RFABoXvPe3qPvTtpHVYPukmUrM_j6kUliiRESftZ6jAJJmHeO10lNc/w393-h580/Squiggly.jpeg" width="393" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So I intend
to make it a goal to limit and start to wean myself off the time I spend on it.
One platform has already been removed completely whether I choose or not!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Four days ago my Instagram account.
@pearlredmoonart, was hacked and taken over and I am locked out, without any
control over it. The bad actor who hijacked it is sending out malware virus to
my followers. If you follow my Instagram I recommend to unfollow. I’ve sent 5 notifications requesting urgent help from IG without any action or
acknowledgement. I am well aware of not being a valued user so perhaps they intend never to unlock
my account? Frankly I've gotten to a point where I hardly care, it causes more problems than being enjoyable. It controls me rather than being a tool I use to make my life more interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGICdkyfVHgiyJeWuA0XkbcC5YTzo6MZFqiYattcvL-EVrH1oYQwp3roPwpeEgaJ-zxM6-_LPWpBLwuEv1211SHxhk-PLGDiJSFEgPO0udOuRL5zVTE_4Xr6rntmRqukqc6YBBr2D-D4XwGxjhCpdVqDlB8l-12KUBWJan8HFHEDEQSwDBfbhnuPmO/s4624/Coat%20front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGICdkyfVHgiyJeWuA0XkbcC5YTzo6MZFqiYattcvL-EVrH1oYQwp3roPwpeEgaJ-zxM6-_LPWpBLwuEv1211SHxhk-PLGDiJSFEgPO0udOuRL5zVTE_4Xr6rntmRqukqc6YBBr2D-D4XwGxjhCpdVqDlB8l-12KUBWJan8HFHEDEQSwDBfbhnuPmO/w442-h589/Coat%20front.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p>I’m mulling over some possibilities which
will allow me to divorce from social media, spend lots more time on artmaking
and still be able to share what I make and sell my produce. For example I want to
develop the YouTube channel in a much more sophisticated way and perhaps offer
fee paying classes. As soon as the show is up this weekend I'll start work on publishing an illustrated booklet showing the garments made for exhibitions this year, in the same way I did for Thirty Coats in 2020. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBHVVAFFGJSZfavqLU5xw56N87x9VY5CS78imhGum1ezeg3XJXywA-ThDvHqy_hm-b3qk56buLCutWgDLPnwKUuMkYg-B1SZ1IfOKlqazqSO2wBsfceiINtzAJTL32nPMQp7J_KkLi-O1_IJUuiHjPJIJg7e_FU52t38gYMNzh4h5PbNS4umKAL2b5/s4042/Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4042" data-original-width="2988" height="637" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBHVVAFFGJSZfavqLU5xw56N87x9VY5CS78imhGum1ezeg3XJXywA-ThDvHqy_hm-b3qk56buLCutWgDLPnwKUuMkYg-B1SZ1IfOKlqazqSO2wBsfceiINtzAJTL32nPMQp7J_KkLi-O1_IJUuiHjPJIJg7e_FU52t38gYMNzh4h5PbNS4umKAL2b5/w472-h637/Cover.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Thirty Coats is </b></span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/798226909/thirty-coats-softcover-book?click_key=a03c5ae287e471bc79c19c92bd44b23316a05ac3%3A798226909&click_sum=9f0d7ab8&ref=shop_home_active_13&frs=1&crt=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b>For sale in my Etsy shop. </b></span></a><br /><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHWLiPap1f9jKy266JkXgiVBvVZhP9MHu5JhbXDgaiHeuaz6zBISi8BGhJLuTG6fdnrHNQNIBtPIhJk2qors7ApLpbHdHDskQWUZhdUXsjbkBzGXoeKwLk-jGYSU0jXMcQusZh2sZe4G7hSobGZhxScRdNgvMFJDQ0LtIBJNwgOEOZBNM6nLWVH5I/s3752/Nirvana%20and%20Spirogyra.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2903" data-original-width="3752" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHWLiPap1f9jKy266JkXgiVBvVZhP9MHu5JhbXDgaiHeuaz6zBISi8BGhJLuTG6fdnrHNQNIBtPIhJk2qors7ApLpbHdHDskQWUZhdUXsjbkBzGXoeKwLk-jGYSU0jXMcQusZh2sZe4G7hSobGZhxScRdNgvMFJDQ0LtIBJNwgOEOZBNM6nLWVH5I/w551-h427/Nirvana%20and%20Spirogyra.jpg" width="551" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And
I’m thinking on expanding on that by publishing specific art garment projects
with both technique and patterns. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The 3<sup>rd</sup> enterprise I’m considering to develop is something I’ve thought about for 2 years. And that would be to offer “Art and Garden”
tours of my beautiful garden and home studio where artworks can be offered directly
for sale to visitors. That would be by appointment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Next blog to write up after the show opens this weekend will be back to the more dreary subject of my politics and the latest round of social media cancellings and castigations. </p><p class="MsoNormal">I really must redirect the social media sewer... <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-44909644742155607802023-03-13T14:14:00.003+11:002023-03-14T11:14:49.489+11:00Let Women Speak<p>This is a very long post that is more about my involvement in the Gender Critical movement than my textile art. I am including pictures of some recent work as I understand that is the main thing some people follow my blog for and I want you to enjoy that. At this point in time I'm getting increasingly leery about showing my work anywhere on social media, due to the complete lack of control I have over what happens to my intellectual property after that. Those of you who read the speech published further down here will find out that my Verified Merchant Shop was closed by Pinterest due to them intending to silence my support for womens rights. Trans Rights Activists mass complained about "poor shopping experience" with the intention getting my shop closed and affecting my income because they don't like my opinions.</p><p>The bitter irony is that Pinterest users have pinned images of my art 100s of 1000s of times. Now they won't be able to find my shop by tracing who generated those images. Pinterest feels perfectly entitled to use images of my work to make their platform a success but not to give me credit for publishing those images. Pinterest was also one of the social media companies that refused to recognise my copyright and remove images that ChicV International fraudulently appropriated. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPzRScMLjDCgRUROOPM5j_SfLmQ4eGQB5trIHpOclB8BPqaTBOyO1VaOkZh5q45i1TURz888r0oOO6RxXPoRj7NZd7f5BYkQDdh9Wx9emT9DD0BOfDupingi6A2U1ak12DMBQse4dp8Yfc0P8ajLNptCBVhlur-0w88KB3EjdzpYSCIUyI4P0F1CX/s4624/20230126_133543.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPzRScMLjDCgRUROOPM5j_SfLmQ4eGQB5trIHpOclB8BPqaTBOyO1VaOkZh5q45i1TURz888r0oOO6RxXPoRj7NZd7f5BYkQDdh9Wx9emT9DD0BOfDupingi6A2U1ak12DMBQse4dp8Yfc0P8ajLNptCBVhlur-0w88KB3EjdzpYSCIUyI4P0F1CX/w508-h381/20230126_133543.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><br /><p>Those of you who've followed my blog for a while (and its been going 15 years now) would have noticed my posts have become increasingly political since the great kimono kerfuffle in 2018. </p><p>Politics has always been a small part of my interests, but never so front and centre as it's become in the last 5 years. For most of my life I felt it would have been peculiar and unnecessary to discuss my personal politics in public. </p><p>Around 2017 I started noticing odd conversations going on in the international sewist community. In one group I was a member of, the "Sewcialists", people were having discussions about men who called themselves women joining our sewing conversations and how some women felt comfortable with that and others not. There were people arguing that women sewists needed to change their traditional language and sewing terms to make trans women and non binary identifiers more comfortable. A prime example were those who advocated to stop using the words bust/breast, to be substituted with chest. </p><p>A number of women in the Sewcialist group were fiercely defending what they felt was the right of a man who said he was a woman to participate in a Brassiere making challenge. Sewing challenges were a regular feature of the group, covering all types of garments that hobby sewists like to make, with the inetntion of discussing patterns that worked well or not, and sharing skills and knowledge. I personally felt very uncomfortable about men who had joined these groups. In the way they had online conversations I picked up that their real interest was in being validated as female, rather than improving their sewing. It creeped me out that these men needed brassieres becuse that had grown breasts due to taking estrogen of had had surgical implants.</p><p>By the time a few months later the Social Justice Activist Emily Ito started criticising non Japanese women for using the word kimono I knew that something uncanny was afoot in the world.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8e-6ZpG2quDZPNG3yoJusaxtVCn_tifKfLI6jnZDWPtoItk6485dcPekF6wdFvScW4VeGhRB_Ys4SAi0tUbUMlo1GccVNOdjVnZmvbiJymOlj2QnFddaj6BLSoy8ahbSkqFcK05tyEz6VkfleRbs8tVpeEJVeYqvtaaiDfiHoaVAhv-V8AtLP_wr/s4624/20221219_085714.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="601" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8e-6ZpG2quDZPNG3yoJusaxtVCn_tifKfLI6jnZDWPtoItk6485dcPekF6wdFvScW4VeGhRB_Ys4SAi0tUbUMlo1GccVNOdjVnZmvbiJymOlj2QnFddaj6BLSoy8ahbSkqFcK05tyEz6VkfleRbs8tVpeEJVeYqvtaaiDfiHoaVAhv-V8AtLP_wr/w451-h601/20221219_085714.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><br /><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>I am proud to describe myself as an advocate for womens rights involved in the international grassroots Gender Critical movement pushing back against governments that have facilitated the legal fiction of "self ID". Self ID, which will shortly be legal in all Australian states except New South Wales, means any man can change his sex to woman by paying a small fee to Births, Deaths and Marriages. On gaining that documentation he is entitled to go into places that have been sex segregated, play in womens sports, serve a criminal sentence in a womans jail (yes, even for sexual assault, rape or pedophilia), apply for grants, jobs and scholarships that had been created specifically for women, enter womens refuges and rape support groups and so much more.</p><p>Kellie-Jay Keen is a British womens rights advocate I started following a couple of years ago and she is currently touring Australia to organise venues where women can come together and discuss their concerns about Trans Gender Ideology.</p><p>I attended the first rally in Sydney on March 11th and spoke. Below is the transcript of my speech and a link to a video of the whole #StandingForWomen rally.</p><p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxWSM5cz0YT7qE35uHp4MNIkKKoESyOL4N" target="_blank"><b>Last words of my speech</b></a></span></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><u>Pearls speech at the Let Women Speak rally</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk128480987"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am going to speak today about how I’ve been cancelled on
social media for talking about my views on trans gender ideology. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am not here hoping to get sympathy
for things that have been done to me personally. What I’ve experienced is happening
right now, every day to all people that have dissenting ideas, and the silencing
is going to keep happening and get worse if we don’t fight for our right to
speak. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In all my life, and as a person who
has always had a serious interest in following politics, this is the first time
I have felt compelled to make a placard and join a political rally. And that is
because…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Womens rights are under threat!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">My question to you today is….why is a
64 yr old Australian grandmother being told what she can and can’t say in
public? As a citizen of this country I’m in the most law abiding demographic
segment of the population who are least likely to cause public nuisance or
offence. Now it seems my opinions and words have become so dangerous I must be
silenced. It is with the intention of silencing me that faceless ideologues
half a world away are generating algorithms to moderate and expunge what I’m
allowed to say in the internet public square. Why do they feel the need to
surveille and control what I say if the words I express my opinions in aren’t
anything that breaks the laws of my country?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m a wife, mother of 2 sons and
grandmother of a 16 yr old who says she is attracted to girls so perhaps she’ll
grow up to live her life as a lesbian woman. My granddaughter has been anxious
and depressed during her high school years due to the bullying of peers and
teachers who try to convince her to believe she is non binary or a trans man.
It has affected her happiness and mental health and distracted from her focus
on studying and doing well at school, which she always excelled at previously.
Now I fear not only is her ability to matriculate well being negatively
affected by the trans gender ideology radicalised environment, but she may be
living out her 20s trying to negotiate her way in a community of same sex
attracted women which has been devastated and traumatised by a forceful
invasion of mentally ill, entitled men who designate themselves to be women
with penises.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am an artist and therefore part of
a community of highly sensitive people with progressive values. People who are
attuned to living creatively, people who frequently exist in imaginary worlds
deliberately concocted. Nurturing this ability to dive deep into the
unconscious and bring forth new ways of seeing to share with others has been a
driving aspect of my life. But even in my personal devotion to bringing forth
uncanny visions – I have been able to learn the difference between what is
looking outward to the stars and what is looking inward into the heart of
darkness to draw on nihilistic despair and paraphilias.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I have been expelled from The Surface
Design Association, an international arts organisation due to “incompatible
values”. Additionally I was blocked from following the Instagram account of the
craft magazine Seamwork that I had a paid subscription to because they objected
to me telling a woman who described herself as non binary; a woman who publicly
discussed using chest binders to flatten her breasts, I told her that I would
not swap using the technical word “bust”, used in sewing patterns instructions,
to the term “chest”, on the basis she said it was offensive and harming her. It
is a very sinister ideology with authoritarian leanings when artists and women
who sew are being censored and deplatformed for non conformity to the
zeitgeist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">From her 2022
Reith lecture the writer </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #404040; font-size: 14pt;">Chimamanda
Ngozie Adichie warns<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 15.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt 15pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #404040; font-size: 14pt;">“This new
social censure demands consensus while being wilfully blind to its own tyranny.
I think it portends the death of curiosity, the death of learning and the death
of creativity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am banned from TikTok after a
tranny reported me for hurting his feelings. He took offence when I told him my
vagina is real and magnificent and that his cosmetic imitation is disgusting
and fake. It offends me that he appropriates the word vagina to refer to his
flayed and inverted penis. Men do not have vaginas – only magic could get them
one because there is no cosmetic surgery that can create a thing that never
existed. Men claiming they have a vagina is an affront to all women, we do not
take pride in being called “people with a front hole” as trans activists suggest
we should. Women are women and there is no subset of women that are men. Men can find
another word for describing a hole surgically engineered in their male perineum,
I suggest perhaps mangina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I got banned on Twitter for saying
men cannot turn into women. My first account was banned in mid 2022, then
reinstated later that year after Elon Musk became boss, then it was suspended
again on the first of January this year …so apparently he hasn’t flushed all
the authoritarians out of the moderation unit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I have had 2 warnings on YouTube,
where I host a channel, meaning that a 3<sup>rd</sup> warning might result in
my channel being deleted. The penalties were for making comments supportive of
womens rights. The channel I host is about my art practise, its not a political
channel devoted to discussions about trans ideology - but simply because I have
links to womens rights issues that has put me in violation of their community
standards policy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I have been removed from Patreon for
discussing feminist and child safeguarding issues. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">On Instagram, I have had content relating
to womens rights removed. I’m not permitted to start a business account because
they say I have made too many comments that offend people who believe they have
changed sex. Its apparent that my Instagram account is also shadowbanned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128480987;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">At the beginning of March I had my
merchant shop on Pinterest closed and this is why it happened</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">During the
federal election of May 2022 I posted several messages on my Instagram account
in support of Kath Deves, who was the Liberal party candidate for Warringah.
This was rather surprising even to myself as until 2021 I had never voted for
any political party other than the Greens, in local or federal politics for 40
years. Until 2018 I was a rusted on lefty progressive. However I have
comprehensively turned my back on both Labour and the Greens since I discovered
these political parties willingly gave themselves a lobotomy when they decided
men can self declare themselves to be women. Essentially this means Women do
not exist as a sex class. So how can these political parties make legislation for
a class of citizens they do not believe exist? When any man can declare himself
a legal woman there is no such thing as adult human females. Except of course,
trans ideologues claim that adult human females must now be designated cis
women and trans women are real women. How does that logically work? If a trans
woman is a woman then why am I not a trans woman?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">When I
posted my public support of Kath Deves on my Instagram and outed myself as a
woman who does not believe men can transmogrify into women I received many
abusive responses and lost about 10% of my followers, that being about 100
people. In the text of my support message I urged people who wanted to find out
more about trans gender ideology to search out my Pinterest account and go
through the links I had saved on a board called “Gender Critical”, where I had
amassed nearly 500 links collected over 4 years. All of that material was
perfectly legitimate, there was nothing illegal or shonky, it comprised of
links to newspaper articles, journals, podcasts Substacks, YouTube channels, TV
stations, and such like. Many of the links were to well known and respectable
academics and authors like Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Douglas Murray, Helen
Joyce, Kara Dansky, Helen Pluckrose, Kathleen Stock, Abigail Shrier…all these people are
published authors who have never had any of their books banned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A week after
mentioning this collection of Gender Critical material on my Pinterest the board
was removed. Pinterest said it was due to infringing community standards and claimed
that the content represented “hate speech”. I was warned if I did it again,
even if saving links to a secret board that nobody else could see, the consequence
would probably be having my acct shut down. How Orwellian is that, that this
social media platform told me I can’t collate materials that nobody else can
access?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Then in February
Pinterest advised me they were closing my online store. They said it was due to
multiple complaints, which they would not specifiy other than that I failed to
provide something described as “quote- shopping experience quality” – unquote”.
It amounted to a summary closure with no process for review. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It is
chilling that a privately owned social media company feels entitled to censor
users who accumulate content that is freely available on the internet and
doesn’t contain anything illegal. None of the videos or journalistic items I
collected have been banned or removed elsewhere and can still be searched out.
My online store didn’t get cancelled because of any problem with my products,
it was removed because Pinterest did not like my political views. The Gender
Critical board had been started in 2018 when I took a deep dive in researching
trans gender ideology and it had existed for almost 4 years until a trans
rights activist was alerted to its existence through my Instagram message of
support to Kath Deves. That activists distaste for my opinions overrode my
right as a citizen of a democratic country to keep an online library of
legitimate sociological reference materials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It makes me
wonder what this world of social justice that these activists believe they are
bringing about will look like when the utopia is achieved. I cannot know the
number of people who have lost their jobs or been cancelled or deplatformed by
TRAs but I’m sure at this point it would be in the 100s of 1000s and growing
daily. Then there are probably many more people who have seen the consequences
of expressing views that aren’t supportive of trans ideology who let themselves
be intimidated into silence, perhaps because they value their friends or can’t
risk losing their job, and then, through being unable to question or say no,
they are coerced further into compliance with things they don’t believe or feel
comfortable about. Like coerced use of pronouns or having to share what were
previously single sex toilets or change rooms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve
experienced how cults work. As a young woman I lived for many years in one of
New Zealands most notorious cult communities, Centrepoint Community. CP ran on principles
that come directly from the same post modernist philosophers, sexologists and
academics that are the foundation of what is now called Queer Theory. Queer
Theory teaches that transgressive behaviours are required to dissolve boundaries
as the way to make a better world. Some of the boundaries they intend to break
down are what defines heteronormative relationships and the conventional family.
The way this worked at Centrepoint resulted in undermining the normal instincts
of women to avoid behaviours that were harmful to them and their children. In
real life I saw how child safeguarding was dismantled bit by bit so that a within
few years the sexual exploitation of women and children had become normalised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Queer Theory
is a trojan horse ideology pretending to be social justice that is a spearhead
for malevolent forces that intend to exploit the vulnerability of women and
children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">If trans
ideologues achieve their definition of a social justice utopia – by silencing
everybody who doesn’t support the belief that men can become women, by threatening
people that they will lose their jobs or by cancelling and deplatforming
dissenting voices on social media…when this society is achieved by force do
they imagine it will function with goodwill and trust? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Part of what
makes democratic societies flourish is that all citizens have equal freedom to
speak and discuss how they want their communities to interact. Through free
discourse we identify what are majority and minority views and try to find a
way all community members can have their positions respected. Through open discourse
it is communally decided the best way to instigate rules, laws, and codes of
conduct to bring about what has been argued through that process of debate to
be the fairest outcomes for everybody. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">So I'm
curious to know how its going to work when a portion of society, and from my
observations I believe it would be more than half of the community, is actively
prevented to speak freely and punished if they do so? This doesn’t sound like a
social justice Utopia to me, but maybe more like North Korea, Afghanistan, Maoist
China or Stalinist Russia. Societies that have to force their citizens to shut
up about issues they don’t want discussed are on the slippery slope to authoritarianism.
Surely there are people who support trans gender ideology who understand the
importance of debate and if their beliefs are solidly anchored in reality and
human rights, as they claim, why are they not welcoming debate and confidently
outlining what their principles are?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">However, the
reality is….as you can see from the group of people who have come here today to
yell at us, the idea of women being allowed to speak their views freely is being
angrily opposed right at this moment. In democratic countries it is considered
a right for citizens to instigate grass roots activism and to come together to
march, rally, form groups to lobby the govt and get involved in other
strategies to create discourse over political issues they believe need to be examined.
But there is something sinister and deeply authoritarian about ideologically
driven groups and businesses who use silencing tactics intending to oppose
grass roots citizen dissent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We gather
here today to say it is our right as women, as members of our communities and
as citizens of Australia to call for an open debate about how our lives are
being affected by federal and local govts adopting the legal fiction that men
can become women. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We reject
this Queer attack on reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">There is no
such thing as a trans child<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Non binary
is not a real thing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trans women
are men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Men cannot
become women and we demand that this travesty be stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDSe3ot5EmE&t=2175s&ab_channel=Kellie-JayKeen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><br /></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDSe3ot5EmE&t=2175s&ab_channel=Kellie-JayKeen" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Standing For Women rally, March 11, Sydney, Australia</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><u><a href="https://www.standingforwomen.com/events" target="_blank">Standing For Women Events in Australia and New Zealand, 2023</a></u></b></span></p>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-68465816539824007072023-02-28T20:04:00.001+11:002023-02-28T20:04:59.748+11:00Adapting River Weeds to a dress<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ROip2Ee05cs" frameborder="0"></iframe>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-87562700658510486372023-02-26T07:12:00.000+11:002023-02-26T07:12:04.277+11:00Standing For Women rally<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/N_qJoalSlfo" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p>I will be attending the Standing For Women rally with UK womens rghts activist Kellie-Jay Keen in Sydney on Saturday 11th March at Victoria Park. Kicks off at 12pm.</p><p>All welcome, including those who don't feel they really understand what is going on with the spread of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its evil twin, Trans Gender Ideology (Queer Theory), collectively and colloquially known as "Woke".</p><p>All women are invited to address the gathering to talk about how the infiltration of trans gender ideology into their workplaces, public/social lives and families is affecting them. I plan to give my own little speech outlining how I've been cancelled on social media and what my fears are as this pernicious ideology becomes more and more embedded into our daily lives.</p><p>The Standing For Women rally on 11th March in Sydney will be Kellie-Jays first event and then she will go on to visit 6 more Australian cities. I hope to get the last in Canberra on March 23rd too,</p><p><a href="https://www.standingforwomen.com/events" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">List of Standing for Women events in Australia in March 2023</span></b></a></p><p>Scroll down to March, where the Australian dates and venues are given.</p><p><br /></p></div>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-2211472030046582802023-02-19T13:09:00.001+11:002023-02-19T13:09:31.347+11:00Queens Speech Episode 32 - THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF STURGEON!<div><br /></div><div>I love these guys and watch them every week on YouTube.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here they discuss what happened to the Sturgeon that swam too far up shit creek. Hopefully Australian politicians will be taking note of the backlash when the public wakes up to getting sold down the river. For example, the egregious Attorney General of Queensland, Shannon Fentiman who has introduced the same self-ID legislation into Queensland. Women of the states of Queensland and Victoria be warned, its now perfectly legal for any bloke to say he's a woman and have this legal fiction be upheld. So next time theres a bloke in the change room of your local pool waving his whizzer around, think twice about complaining as you may be the one who gets in trouble for being a transphobe bigot.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the last part of the video things get dark as they discuss a new book about to be published by British journalist Hannah Barnes who has done an explosive investigation into what was happening to kids under 18 at the Tavistock gender clinic who were referred for counselling.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: red;"><a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/time-to-think-hannah-barnes/book/9781800751118.html" target="_blank">Time To Think</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Hv5CZLSuibg" width="480"></iframe>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-43730792437959923372023-02-19T09:31:00.000+11:002023-02-19T09:31:07.375+11:00Part one, Blue Ziggy<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/vzjJkMvOgxg" frameborder="0"></iframe>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-67680561521121599312023-02-05T13:45:00.001+11:002023-02-05T13:45:45.154+11:00Tour the Olive Grove dress<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Hg-GcpGHa40" frameborder="0"></iframe>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1796192971060466416.post-89827848172043085592023-01-13T19:15:00.002+11:002023-01-14T07:35:21.577+11:00Lulu the Galah parrot embroidering<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/yALCBZsRtIg" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yALCBZsRtIg/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Inter species child labour. </div><div>Another crime to add to my multi various sins against humanity - transphobe, racist, bigot et al...</div>Pearl Red Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820622674301454183noreply@blogger.com0