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.

Glitter is the Devil’s dandruff.

I’m still washing the remains of my Christmas cards out of my clothes.

My breasts are rather too saggy these days to do 'painting' with, I'd be chasing them around the paper for any effect!

Who needs hands when you can just smear your boobs all over the canvas?

This event sounds like it was designed to appeal to AGPs. They're only inviting actual women because the AGPs don't particularly want to look at each other topless.

Also, glitter is scratchy and does not belong anywhere near sensitive areas.

urgh. left over glitter in your bra

no thanks. the AGPs can fill their boots. or their cups.

I do know lots of people who do like glitter - im still not sure that they would want to use anything other than hands and feet to paint with it.

I was slightly concerned that because I dont like glitter maybe im not actually woman. And then i thought I havent got time to think about this and got on with the other hundreds of things i need to do in order to live.

It would be like when you get sand in your swimsuit at the beach, but scratchier and with a bunch of drunk pervs drinking prosecco and saying "my name is Deirdre, honest".

What a pile of glittery shit.

Hope the class is full of beardy blokes with their moobs and no actual women.

At least at a pool party it might be warm. Even if you took out the perv factor why would they think anyone would want to get her boobs out on a rainy evening in Manchester?

I agree with bowl, please, please let the only attendees be male

that would be hilarious

Sadly the reality is likely to be 4 or 5 terrified young women who really desperately want to seem woke and empowered and a bunch of creepy pervs with their phones out taking pictures.

In the interest of fairness, I do have to report that my local Unitarian chapel is doing a course exploring masculinity for all self identified men called 'It's not about the beard'

I suspect this class was aimed specifically for men who identify as women, but that they have tied themselves up in knots with the wording, as to specify would go against the TWAW narritive.

This sounds like that workshop in Coventry, was it, where a transwoman was advertising a several hundred pound event for biological only women, where the presenter would encourage fondling clitorises in front of each other.

notme 🤮

I remember that! Apparently participants were supposed to do this on narrow benches, because why not be physically uncomfortable and in danger of falling over at any moment while you're being perved on by a fetishist?

Only a bloke could think this is a good idea.

It makes me think of the 1990s with all that new age 'Spirit Horse' bullshit. A bloke I know went to a tantra weekend that was full of dudes and only one woman who wasn't much up for it.... I wonder why....

Oh god I'd forgotten about that one NotMe. Bleugh

So they get a grant for doing this being inclusive and all that
Then on next grant thingie they can say. Wow we’re are so inclusive

Women don’t go for this shit, surely?

Anything that says “for women” on it attracts... a certain type... of person these days. People who like lady things. For lady people.

But what if they don't have boobs? That's exclusionary. Bigots.

Their building is next door to a primary school.

I live in Manchester and I'm a little bit mind blown that people want to go to something like this. I too read it as self-identified women ie. Men. Figured its a bunch of trans people with too much time on their hands...