Several groups of fungi, standing up on nurturewood.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘TIME’S UP. We’re tired of your fuck-ups. We’ve had it with your failures! We want a world that doesn’t suck!’
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#photography #OurFuture #nature #OurFutureDay7 #resist #WeThePeople #climateAction #fungifriends
Touching beauty shot of Max, the dog. Perfect for marketing purposes.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘If you dare think about it, it really is clever marketing that shaped our present way of life. That means, it was never logical, rational or for the human wellbeing.
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#photography #marketing #nature #OurFutureDay7 #dogsky #pr #philsky #resist #climate #ThisIsOurWorld #actnow
A brown leaf in the grass with an out of focus bit of water.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘A human who is uncomfortable in their own skin and with their own desires, is a human on edge, and from there it’s a scarily short step to abuse: sexual abuse, domestic violence, child abuse.’
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #domesticViolence #childAbuse
Fallen tree trunks, inviting to slide down.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘One commentator wrote: Do we really need to climb breasts and slide down penises to heal and find something like a new beginning? Maybe.’
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#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #forest
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A tree with a cut off smaller trunk. The remains of the cut trunk look a bit like a penis.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘By this time, the media had found something new to get upset about: Giant installations of human body parts with a focus on sexual organs
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#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #organs #forest #trees
Beautiful tiny mushrooms in a sea of moss.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘As an androgynous person, I have been attacked many times, and all the more I believe we can only gain if we take the time to rethink our concepts about our fellow humans.’
🧵
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #androgynous #fungifriends #moss #trees #beauty
Two door snails gliding up a tree trunk.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘Suddenly we’re on this road where I begin to see myself live as a woman for some years & then return to some form of a man.
It was incredibly liberating to have the freedom to be someone today and someone else tomorrow.’
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #snails #gender
A forest floor still life: autumn leaves, clover, moss.
DAY 7 #quotes
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‘Let’s dig as deep as possible. Let’s have these conversations. The more of our strange behaviours we take on a rethinking ride the better.’
#photography #sexuality #body #nature #OurFutureDay7 #forest
Fomes fungi, a larger pressing down on the smaller.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘When I heard about Raha’s research, I was like: bloody hell, yes! We make so much fuss about a single organ, and worse we build whole ideologies, hierarchies, philosophies on it. Why the heck?
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#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #diability #sex #philsky #booksky #resist
Beautiful cup lichen.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘There might be a trauma to face, that’s for scientists like Raha to find out, but I can say that this open, curious, loving exploration of my body has given me a new ease and peace, I’ve never known before.’
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #sex #body #lichen #fungi
I’m not sure, but this could be slime fungi. They are reddish, small, wobbly looking, on a cut tree stump.
DAY 7 #quotes
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‘It’s quite liberating when we talk about sex with curiosity rather than shame or leering.’
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #fungifriends #fungi #forest #sex #booksky #philsky
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Three beech trunks standing intimately close together.
DAY 7 #quotes
‘I’m not comfortable speaking about sexuality, but maybe that’s part of the problem. We’ve made the most natural things, our bodies and procreation, into something weird, something to be ashamed of, something to use against people.’
#photography #sexuality #forest #OurFutureDay7
Candlesnuff fungi from an uncommon sideways perspective.
DAY 7,
connecting to women & men
Historians say that it was a succession of wars that brought darkness to the hearts of many men. Women & men tried to soothe & heal the souls of broken men, but these men were too badly wounded by the wars to allow for help. 🧵
#photography #men #fungi #OurFutureDay7
A stone wall with different kinds and colours of lichen, and moss.
DAY 7,
connecting to
Where do things go wrong between women & men?
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‘What if we become the sort of men and women we are, due to the way we treat or affect each other?’
‘We make each other into who we become?’
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#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #men #women #gender #lichen
Calm sea at dawn, the hint of a single wave approaching the shore.
DAY 7,
connecting to domestic violence
WARNING
This extract isn’t an easy read since.
It contains references to murder.
FRIENDS
book 2, travelling
www.we-need-to-talk-about-sex.org/extract-book...
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #DomesticViolence
Very small mushroom seemingly hiding in the moss.
//DAY 7,
connecting to child abuse
WARNING
This extract isn’t an easy read.
It contains references to child rape.
YOU HAVE TO FUCK
book 2, travelling
Link: www.we-need-to-talk-about-sex.org/you-have-to-...
#photography #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #childabuse #fungifriends
Sunrise, sea, in the distance flocks of cormorants.
DAY 7,
connecting to
THE PENIS TRAUMA
and other speculations
about us and our sexuality
from book 2, travelling
Now available as pdf-download. 🧵
#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #abuse #domesticviolence #cormorants #sunrise #birdsky #booksky #philsky #writing #climate
Cormorants fly across the sea, close to the surface before sunrise, the sky is red.
DAY 7,
connecting to
THE PENIS TRAUMA
and other speculations
about us and our sexuality
extract from book 2, travelling
It’s now available on the website: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEX.
www.we-need-to-talk-about-sex.org/the-penis-tr...
#photography #body #sex #OurFutureDay7 #domesticviolence
A single mushroom cornered in a hole.
DAY 7,
connecting to THE PENIS TRAUMA
Alice leaned back and closed her eyes, pondering.
Where do things go wrong between women and men?
And why?
🧵
#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #abuse #domesticviolence
Mossy tree trunks on the forest floor, with autumn leaves.
DAY 7,
prelude to THE PENIS TRAUMA
It’s best to read these speculations without knowing much about them. But I’ll say this: even if only a fraction of these speculations can be proven, it’d still make a great difference — for all of us. 🧵
#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #abuse
A small mushroom shyly breaking through the bark of a fallen birch.
DAY 7,
connecting to THE PENIS TRAUMA
‘Well, eventually I asked myself a few questions about the male body and in particular about the penis.’
‘What?’ Leo exclaimed, suddenly sounding a lot more awake.
🧵
#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #abuse
Just found these trumpet cup lichen, the first time I’ve seen them in this stage where new cups grow from the existing.
DAY 7,
connecting to THE PENIS TRAUMA
About an hour later, Alice felt a rush of excitement.
Could this be an explanation? Of sorts?
She had to talk to someone. But who? Who would be open enough to even think about this?
Of course. Leo.
#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #lichen
A pine & a beech dancing in the forest.
DAY 7
& book 2, travelling
‘I agree. Sex is a private matter. But since this private matter has led to abuse and chronic unhappiness, we need to talk about it. 🧵
#photography #body #sexuality #nature #OurFutureDay7 #abuse
Cauliflower mushroom with blue mould, breaking open the bark of a pine.
DAY 7
& book 2
‘Is there any chance of you not repeating this in public?’
‘No, Leo. This whole fuss about our sexuality is one of the major things that screws with us. We have to dig in bluntly to unearth everything we humans have made weird.’
#photography #sexuality #OurFutureDay7 #fungifriends
Very small mushrooms, sort of squeezed into a crack in a trees mossy bark.
TRAUMATIC RUN-INS WITH WOMEN
‘But, we do agree that there are loads of great women and loads of great men?’
‘Only you had a few traumatic run-ins with some women?’
‘Exactly.’
‘OK. So tell me.’
🌍
#photography #OurFutureDay7 #sex #sexuality #gender #religion #climate #nature #fungifriends #moss
board ‘Maybe you are right about the girls night,’ Devery said. ‘Maybe if we mix, we don’t get too stupid. And maybe when we’re separated from each other, there’s something missing, and we start to limp.’ ‘Wow, I like that image,’ Alice said. ‘And maybe some of that limping starts in our childhood. If we were brought up by women and men, maybe we’d be much more balanced.’ ‘True. But even if we can change that, it’ll take time to get rid of cliches and generalisations.’ ‘How about we shoot them into the universe, and they can get lost in another galaxy? Besides, where do generalisations get us? We put people with boobs in one bucket and people without boobs in another, and there: we believe we understand the world.’ ‘You do know that men have breasts too?’ ‘Alright, let me be more precise: we put milkboobs in one bucket and all other boobs in the other. And we still believe we understand the world.’
Huge white low hanging clouds drifting across a forest towards the dunes.
DAY 7,
connecting to TRAUMATIC RUN-INS WITH WOMEN
‘Where do generalisations get us? We put people with boobs in one bucket and people without boobs in another, and there: we believe we understand the world.’
#photography #OurFutureDay7 #sex #clouds #dunes #forest #gender #UnderstandTheWorld
board Maybe one day we’re so relaxed that we live happily ever after without having to outperform anyone.’ ‘I like optimism,’ Devery said. ‘Me too,’ Alice said with a cheeky twitch of her mouth. Then she added more seriously: ‘The trouble I see is that people might still be insecure about their bodies, even if gender didn’t play that much of a role any more. You know, I think we’re looking for a number of keys. Gender divisions are problematic. But I think the insecurity regarding our bodies might be too.’ ‘So you’re saying if we— What are you saying?’ ‘Not sure. But I remember my disappointment when I had a one night stand with a fifty year old, a year or two ago. And he was as insecure as a twenty year old. That can’t be right. Or another one night stand who explained to me how I like to have sex. And he was so nervous about getting it right. I mean why didn’t he just ask me what I like? Though, he was a good deal younger. But still.’ They both chuckled.
Yellow plums on a tree.
DAY 7,
connecting to TRAUMATIC RUN-INS WITH WOMEN
‘The trouble I see is that people might still be insecure about their bodies, even if gender didn’t play that much of a role any more. You know, I think we’re looking for a number of keys. 🧵
#photography #OurFutureDay7 #sex #gender #body #plums
board Did you ever want to be a man?’ Alice smiled a little, took a sip of her drink and thought about it. Did she ever want to be a man? ‘I don’t think so. I think I was fine with being a girl because of Pippi Longstocking. I could relate to her. She made it possible for me to be a girl. But being a woman or a wife or a mother never appealed to me, and it doesn’t really make sense to me either. Yet, I don’t think wanting-to-be-a-man ever crossed my mind. Though I usually relate to male characters in stories, like Sinbad, Ali Baba, Da Vinci, Cicero or Aragon. But then, maybe I haven’t read enough books or seen enough movies. Though, now that I come to think of it, being a Christian would have been more fun as a man, I think. A woman was only good enough to serve a man, but as a man you got to do real things, so to speak.’ ‘Like tyrannising others about how to live?’ ‘Yeah. A woman was only allowed to tyrannise young children — and other women.’ ‘Unbelievable.’ ‘If only it were just a story. But here’s a funny thing. I do have one other positive female image in my mind. And that’s the image of an old, deeply wrinkled, white haired and foremost very wise woman. She is very beautiful in every respect: mind, body and soul. That’s an image I could be comfortable with.’ ‘In the far future?’ Alice laughed. ‘Yeah. I’d give it another four to five decades and heaps of still deeply buried wisdom.’
A ladybug climbing among Tansy buds.
DAY 7,
connecting to TRAUMATIC RUN-INS WITH WOMEN
‘Did you ever want to be a man?’
Alice smiled a little, took a sip of her drink and thought about it. Did she ever want to be a man? ‘I don’t think so.’
#photography #OurFutureDay7 #sex #BeingAMan #gender #wildflowers #ladybug
board ‘Don’t you feel any affiliation with women?’ Alice thought about it. ‘No. I never wanted to be a woman. Being a girl was fine. Being a human is what I can identify with.’ ‘Would you say you are a woman?’ ‘Well, my body is rather female. But I identify with being a human. As for mating, I prefer male mates.’ Devery chuckled. Then he said, pensive again: ‘Is this your internalised disregard for women?’ Alice frowned with the hint of a smile. ‘I don’t entirely trust my answer to that question. But I don’t actually think so. Take Nanda or Kim. In my eyes, these two are women head to toe. And I can’t find any fault with them. I like them, and I respect them without any reservations. And I can’t imagine a situation where I’d slight or depreciate them because of a man or for any other reason. And yet, there’s this notion that they’re essentially different from me. Or I am from them. That I’m not one of them. I can’t really explain it, and it’s pretty vague. And maybe it’s just the fact that every human is unique, and therefore another human will always feel somewhat different to ourselves. I don’t know. Though in a group of women, I tend to feel like a stranger, like there’s something I just don’t get.’ ‘Hm. If you never wanted to be a woman— Is that why you never married?’ ‘You know, I once read that a bad marriage is as unhealthy as smoking or drinking. Since I used to smoke heavily, I couldn’t take my chances with another health risk.’ They both chuckled. ‘But you know,’ Alice added. ‘I dislike the gender divisions. And these bleeding men-are-evil-and-better, and women-are-victims-and-better generalisations are neither true nor helpful. We’re all humans, and we’re all absolutely capable of wronging and violating others.
Waves & setting sun.
DAY 7,
connecting to TRAUMATIC RUN-INS WITH WOMEN
‘Don’t you feel any affiliation with women?’
‘No. I never wanted to be a woman. Being a girl was fine. Being a human is what I can identify with.’
#photography #OurFutureDay7 #sex #gender #human #waves #ocean #blackandwhite
board you don’t think the world would be a better place if it was run by women?’ ‘The world would be a better place if gender didn’t matter.’ ‘Smart. But really, what’s your view on the matriarchy?’ ‘Don’t get me started on mothers.’ ‘Alice.’ ‘Alright. A world run by women. First image that comes to my mind is the women prison. Sorry. Let me try again.’ Alice fell silent. She looked at the beach and the ocean, without seeing either. Eventually she shook her head. ‘No. The world wouldn’t be a better place if it was run by women. Nor is it a better place for being run by men. Obviously. But I’m sure, it would be a better place if it was run by a good mix of people who don’t suffer from inferiority or superiority complexes, and just get the job done.’
Cormorant at the beach this summer, looking very proficient.
DAY 7,
connecting to TRAUMATIC RUN-INS WITH WOMEN
‘So you don’t think the world would be a better place if it was run by women?’
‘The world would be a better place if gender didn’t matter.’
#photography #OurFutureDay7 #sex #matriarchy #patriarchy #gender #birdsky #cormorants
