Manchester based publicly funded arts centre offers Glitter Tit painting for self-identified women

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Owl and Coconut is a Mindful Arts centre in Manchester funded by the Big Lottery, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Santander, Manchester City Council and the Manchester Wellbeing Fund. They have advertised a session using your tits to make glitter paintings as an empowering workshop.

They apparently deleted their post on twitter advertising the session because they were overwhelmed by the number of responses they were getting.

There is a screenshot though.

Twitter would like to know what safeguarding they have in place for an event where women are exposing their breasts and making art with them alongside self-identified women. They haven't responded.

Also I'm not sure how putting glitter on your tits is empowering.

Ah
The old whop out your boobs for booze chestnut.

DD1 just said "you better not be thinking of going mum, it sounds like something you'd Do! "

Cheek

They may as well stick a PERVERTS WELCOME - NO QUESTIONS ASKED on the front door of the venue.

The wording (for all self-identifying women) makes it sound like it is for biological males only anyways.

It is the kind of thing that Waxmyballs would turn up at and then sue them if he got turned away. And, knowing that, this shower would ensure that they would never challenge someone like Waxmyballs. They would just meekly let him in.

Empowerment? Someone on twitter suggested that they had misspelt 'arousal'

This just sounds like an excuse for men to perve on women's breasts.

Hate to be a killjoy but scientists are calling for the banning of glitter as it is a micro plastic and very harmful to the environment.

So may pose a bit of an ethical dilemma for our Green self-ID friends.

Having owned a pair of breasts (my own, that is, not ones off the internet) for ooh, 40ish years now, I have zero interest in making 'art' with them. I think the clue is in the 'self-identified' bit - it's for men.

Can you imagine after you've finished painting, you have to clan up as best you can with some wet wipes. You have to put your painty glittery moobs/tits back in their clothes. You grab your damp glittery painting, and go home on the bus, breathing proseco over your fellow passengers and trying not to smear paint on them or ruin your handywork.
They just don't think these things through.

It does sound as if the event is for transwomen. I've no problem with that, just as long as they extend the same courtesy to women.

Finger painting for kids-great fun
Silicone implant breast painting for men-not cool.

I wonder if men cover their dicks in glitter for self empowerment?

Glitter, tits and Prosecco.

Yep, that just about sums up the self ID fantasy view of womanhood.

It would be wonderful if only men turned up.

Does anyone know which venue had agreed to host this nonsense?

Own and Coconut is based at the Nest in Levenshulme Old Library according to their website

Has anyone ever painted anything with their breasts ever ever
😂😂😂
I mean who the fuck would actually want to do that

They've taken down the original tweet but decided to clarify the event:

twitter.com/owlandcoconut/status/1087044840813223936
Ever painted with your hands, your fingers, even your feet? Well how about your bare chest!

In this fabulous body positive mindful art workshop, we'll be exploring how the simplicity of print making with the body, contrasts to heavy fetishization of the female form in the media.

Besides all the other things that don't sit right for me with this 'empowering activity' (though it would be right at home at some of the fanjo-steaming, discover-yourself workshops elsewhere, I guess) it's this constant inequity and desperate rush to include men who identify as women in every activity for women, including ones that ironically are about challenging the fetishization of women's bodies, but not the other way round.

These tweets are about courses for men.

twitter.com/owlandcoconut/status/1084120400639021057
twitter.com/owlandcoconut/status/1083261912543125504

Not 'those who identify as men'.

Just Men.

No need for clarification. No additional qualifier to make it 'inclusive' for those who identify as men.

Why are women doing this to themselves and others? (That's a rhetorical question for this board, as we watch the pattern repeat over and over)

I did potato prints when I was a kid but for some reason as an adult woman I’ve never considered getting my baps out, covering them in paint and glitter then attempting art with them. Maybe that’s because I don’t fetishise parts of my female body.
Should be called messy play for chests. Each to their own but very strange nonetheless.

"messy play for chests"
It's billed as for "self identifying women" so I would read that as for "men". Because most actual women would have no interest in this!!

This sounds like it should be one of Jess's events - like the naked tea party and the naked veganism

I kind of imagine if you go you are probably not bothered who sees your boobs, it's hardly compulsory.

FWIW a module on my unis drama course asks the whole class to get naked and make paint prints of their bodies, together or alone (as in rolling around in bits of paper together or alone). Again not compulsory. It's very freeing.

I appreciate it's an entirely different context in a library with prosecco But it's probably more fun and less weird than it sounds. And again no one has to go.

What was the biscuit for?

It is supposed to be 'art therapy'

"We deliver Mindful Art projects and events, informed by evidenced guidelines (NICE Treatment Guidance for Depression 2009) and creative events (NICE Guidance for Psychosis & Schizophrenia 2014)"

Not really university drama students although, who knows

I loathe glitter. Of any kind.