Pissing Women

by Sophy Rickett, Hettie Judah, Patricia Nilsson

Pissing Women ABISBOOK CHEERIO Publishing.

Paperback

Reviews

[Nasty_reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love women pissing as a political statement because I am a woman adjacent and I love to piss

[Tim Florian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pissing Women is Sophie Rickett’s series of women taking a piss in public. In this essay collection various artists (musician, poet, photographer, filmmaker, comedian) comment on the images.
This collection started off strong with shrewd thoughts on what it means for women to piss publicly. I really enjoyed Hettie Judah’s statement that the cityscape’s not built for women’s bodies and needs. As well as Patricia Nilsson’s analysis of how it is now acceptable for women to act like men in corporate situations, yet even then they are expected to conform and meet certain standards. Even when women adopt traditionally male behaviour and looks, they are not afforded the same freedom. She states that breaking taboos holds revolutionary potential.
Numerous authors explicitly included trans women in their essays. For this reason, it is particularly troubling that two of the essays (by Juno Calypso and Chila Burman with Darren Biabowe Barnes) were deeply cisnormative, reducing gender to the assumption that men have penises and women have vulvas.

[isabella · Rating 3 out of 5]

with this being so short and all the segments in such different styles it's hard to rate this. i was most interested by sophie duker and hettie judah's inputs, how this work grates up against class and race and its place in the art scene at the time. some other sections just seemed so pointless and stupid and at times verging on bioessentialist.