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Free Thinking : The city

From Liverpool, playwright Esther Wilson

All entries in this category: The City of Ideas

1. 'The Great Make-Over'.

   • Esther Wilson
   • 25 Oct 06, 04:14 PM

   
   
   Another guest blogger for your perusal.

   Mandy Romero is a Live Artist, working in the area of transgender and based in Liverpool. She is the self-appointed Liverpool Queen Of Culture and her recent book, 鈥淭he Great Make-Over鈥�, a free limited edition art-work, can be obtained by visiting her web-site at.

   
   The men are at it again! Ranting across the divides of the world, threatening each other with their dangerous toys, preaching division, or unity as long as it鈥檚 their unity.

   Oversensitive, aggressive, self-pitying 鈥� why do we bother with them? The answer is ancient 鈥� they help make babies.
   It seems that genetic engineering may eventually relieve them of even that useful function.
   It seems to me that as America slowly slides from domination, we are in danger of being crushed under the collapsing body.
   I can see the Bush boys working so, so hard to make masculinity work, and the more they try the less they succeed. 鈥淏eing powerful is like being a lady, - if you have to say you is, you ain鈥檛鈥�, as I believe Jimmy Hoffa once said.
   And with the realization that violence and coercion aren鈥檛 bringing results we have a further male nightmare, the Man As Victim.

   
   

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1. City of ideas

   • Esther Wilson
   • 27 Sep 06, 02:33 PM

   As Liverpool inches nearer to 'City of Culture' in 2008, how can we ensure that the variety of artistic ventures on offer are 'accessible' to those not usually equated with the arts?
   

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