Visualising Menstruation

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes. In today's episode (part 1 of a 2-part special) join Bee to explore how artists have shaped the aesthetics of menstrual blood, from the language of disgust and stigma to imagery that celebrates blood’s beauty, power, and symbolism, and work that uses menstrual blood as a metaphor for social and political violence. We’ll talk about art made by men about menstruation, think through how some works link menstrual blood to universal ideas of femininity, and others that totally reject that framework to make bold political statements. It’s a conversation that goes way beyond the bloody binary — we hope you enjoy.  Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS Follow us on Instagram @visualising_menstruation Get involved at: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/Vc2h3dqPH8 Find out more about Bee at www.beehughes.co.uk and full show notes here The Visualising Menstruation project is supported by LJMU Faculty of Society + Culture funding.

Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes. In this episode we’re going to get into the thorny issues of the naked body in art. Why has femininity historically been labelled as the object, and masculinity as the subject? Is it possible to wrest control of representing bodies away from the regime of the male gaze? Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS Follow us on Instagram @visualising_menstruation Get involved at: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/Vc2h3dqPH8  Find out more about Bee at www.beehughes.co.uk and full show notes here

In the first full episode Bee talks about why they think it's important to paint the airwaves red with menstrual talk, they discuss some of the ways menstruation has been theorised by art historians and other academics, and discuss examples of art projects by Jen Lewis and Vanessa Tiegs. Full show notes here. Visualising Menstruation is written, hosted, edited and produced by Dr Bee Hughes. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS

In this episode get to know Bee, find out how you can get involved & discover Bee's thoughts on menstrual liminality. Full shownotes: https://linktr.ee/visualisingmenstruation  Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/flow-state License code: KL36RERAGRJTA1OS