LGBTIQ Initiative of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb AUT will organize a forum “Feminism and Pornography – A Love Story”. The forum will be held on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 8 p.m. on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (Ivana Lučića 3), in lecture room 3.
The connection between feminism and pornography has always been a contesting issue, and precisely for that reason it was necessary to open this discussion. Throughout the history of feminist theory and practice, pornography has always had ambiguous status – some feminists wanted to ban pornography, some to (secretly) watch it, while others wanted to make it. While conservative critics present pornography as a harmful and immoral vice which destroys the sanctity of marriage and sexual purity, and some liberal critics point out the representation of woman and sexual and gender minorities in pornographic films, the participants of the forum discuss pornography through feminist, film and alternative lenses, trying to find in it some space for subversive resistance, visual celluloid pleasure, or practical realisation of feminist theory.
Participants of the forum and titles of their lectures are as follows: Asja Bakić, poet, feminist and porn activist: A Feminist Introduction to Mainstream Pornography; Mario Kozina, film critic and expert on pornographic genres of the seventies: Pornography and Gay Identity of the Seventies; Anja Plazonja, student of Russian Language and Comparative Literature: Feminist Pornography.
Everyone is invited to participate in the forum.
