Never had a class like this in my College Days
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:28 pm
Self-described feminist Lauren Barri-Holstein shocked her students this week by showing them a video of her vagina during class.
Ms. Barri-Holstein, a PhD student and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, was introducing a new module for her class called “Theater and its Others.”
In its introduction, she showed a video from her play “Splat!” The clip, which was shown to first-year students, “shows her inserting a knife handle into her vagina and throwing red tomatoes at the blade, giving birth to a small, plastic Bambi figurine, and inflating a condom.”
Ms. Barri-Holstein told the stunned class that it was “feminist performance art concerned with the female body.”
Splat! also has scenes in it where Ms. Barri-Holstein urinates on stage and “dangles” from a harness while nude.
A student in the class told his student newspaper about the experience. “It was surreal. I honestly didn’t know how to react,” the student said.
“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look her in the eye in person, it’s just weird. It’s not even the fact we saw her lady parts, it’s the fact I literally have no idea how the clip was in any way related to this module. It was just so extreme and I don’t understand why it was in any way necessary.”
Another student, however, said that they “understand” where Ms. Barri-Holstein was coming from by showing the clip.
Ms. Barri-Holstein, a PhD student and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, was introducing a new module for her class called “Theater and its Others.”
In its introduction, she showed a video from her play “Splat!” The clip, which was shown to first-year students, “shows her inserting a knife handle into her vagina and throwing red tomatoes at the blade, giving birth to a small, plastic Bambi figurine, and inflating a condom.”
Ms. Barri-Holstein told the stunned class that it was “feminist performance art concerned with the female body.”
Splat! also has scenes in it where Ms. Barri-Holstein urinates on stage and “dangles” from a harness while nude.
A student in the class told his student newspaper about the experience. “It was surreal. I honestly didn’t know how to react,” the student said.
“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look her in the eye in person, it’s just weird. It’s not even the fact we saw her lady parts, it’s the fact I literally have no idea how the clip was in any way related to this module. It was just so extreme and I don’t understand why it was in any way necessary.”
Another student, however, said that they “understand” where Ms. Barri-Holstein was coming from by showing the clip.
Disgusting. Almost makes me embarassed that I was ever a feminist.............but my time was before the insanity and man hating began. The only thing worse than her is anyone who takes her class.