Host Elly Arrow speaks to Victoria Gugenheim, a world award-winning body painter, feminist, and women’s rights activist, about her work focused on healing after sexual trauma, fighting purity & porn culture, desexualizing the female body, ending the policing of survivor activists’ appearances and cultivating joy within the movement so that dealing with heavy subjects doesn’t lead to burnout. Links Victoria Gugenheim’s Website and socials: gugenheim.co.uk  thatvictoriag.substack.com instagram.com/victoriagugenheim x.com/quirkathon facebook.com/GugenheimGlobal  Women Create:  womencreate.co.uk  Painted Powerful: paintedpowerful.substack.com  Article in the Radical Notion: theradicalnotion.org/the-body-as-boundary-painted-powerful  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the “flow state”: cgu.edu/people/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi TED talk about the "flow state": youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs?feature=shared Maryam Namazie: maryamnamazie.com  Body Riot - Protest Against Mandatory Hijab: imago-images.com/search?suchtext=Topless+woman+activists+protest+Iranian+regime+in&imagepage=on&db=stock Note: Despite being successful on social media, this was censored on both YouTube and X. facebook.com/share/p/T9vArH9ye5vET6bb/?mibextid=qi2Omg Matriarchal/Matrilineal tribes who wear makeup: Asante people of Ghana: mmstudies.com/matriarchies/akan  Mosuo women in makeup: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6b5514fb18201758b96c7f/1602524611344-H2A0ZK37VJHYNEVA4I8Y/DSCF2858.jpg  Historic examples of freer body culture for women: Minoans of Crete: jstor.org/stable/jj.15136008?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&refreqid=&searchKey= Minoan women in high positions of power, topless snake goddesses, topless women in Fresco Art: blog.thesyntopiahotel.gr/minoan-crete-the-women-rulers On Bare Breasts in Ancient Greece - private parts and patriarchy: rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/20/on-bare-breasts-in-ancient-greece Talk: Matriarchies as Egalitarian societies: youtu.be/_rHijP0C7WI?si=QEZXKwAgWDP-LDht  Free The Nipple: campaignsoftheworld.com/outdoor/free-the-nipple Our episode on spy cam porn: “Korean Women Fighting Porn Culture” FiLia: www.filia.org.uk Andrea Dworkin “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”: archive.org/details/PornographyMenPossessingWomenAndreaDworkinPdf  Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain: ex-muslim.org.uk  One Law For All: onelawforall.org Trashing, the dark side of sisterhood: jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm The Tyranny of Structurelessness: jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy: psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-01368-000  Dancing in the Streets Book: amazon.com/Dancing-Streets-History-Collective-Joy/dp/0805057242  Kofra Women’s Center, Munich: kofra.de/layout/index.htm Vulva/Vagina Folklore: youtu.be/mYMWd467YT8?si=mZWL_GfpV-bFtW1x  How Sadness Survived - The History of Depression: www.amazon.com/How-Sadness-Survived-Evolutionary-Depression/dp/1846190134  Claudia Clare: claudiaclare.co.uk The Thin Black Line: lubainahimid.com/portfolio/the-thin-black-line Jennifer Packer: serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/jennifer-packer Orange is The New Black: netflix.com/de/title/70242311  Follow us: Facebook: ⁠@RedLightExposé⁠ ⁠Instagram: @RLE.podcast TikTok: ⁠@redlightexpose⁠ Twitter: ⁠@RedLightExpose YouTube: @RedLightExpose Disclaimer: All the information provided through Red Light Exposé is published in good faith and solely for general information and educational purposes. It is not in any way intended to serve as a substitute for professional advice. The views represented in this episode do not necessarily represent the views of other Red Light Exposé hosts or the group as a whole. Red Light Exposé makes no representations or warranties of any kind or in any form, whether express or implied