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David I. Walsh

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LISTEN UP: A LADIES LOUNGE IS BEING REMOVED DUE TO "SEXISM"

TERFS DNI - I'm trans

The Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a popular place in the state with free entry for TAS residents. But the ladies lounge is one of the best places inside. It seeks to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors, making men feel the exclusion experienced by women for thousands of years.

However, it is now being removed due to discrimination against "people who do not identify as ladies", and as someone who doesn't ID as a women (most of the time) FINE BY ME! Keep me out when I ID as a man. A New South Wales man (Jason Lau) took legal action against Mona, claiming that being denied entry into the Ladies Lounge when he visited the museum last April due to his gender was against the  Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Act (1998) 

HE DOES NOT EVEN LIVE IN THE SAME STATE

Artist Kirsha Kaechele and MONA director David Walsh

Artist Kirsha Kaechele has said:

"The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork"

Why is it being banned?

The Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Act (1998) states that you are not allowed to treat someone differently based on an attribute or characteristic like, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability. source1

But there are exceptions to this rule.

"A person may discriminate against another person in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged or have a special need because of a prescribed attribute," the Act states.

Things like women-only gyms are for women to feel safe, promoting equal opportunity, and men's sheds are to promote men's mental health. source2

Mona's Ladies Lounge, however, is not a club and has no membership.

The judgment has ordered Mona to allow men to access the installation within 28 days.

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David Walsh | AFL

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Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Walsh III with their two children, David and Peter (left to right), May 1887

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Edwin and Rose commissioned this photograph to celebrate the 21st birthday of their eldest son Peter along with his graduation from Victoria University with a degree in law. This was the first time David was ever photographed. He found the experience amusing, and the photographer was kind enough to let the blind child touch the camera very carefully. 

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Anthony Valentine as Tom in Two Stars For Comfort (1962) dir. Michael Elliott

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gay greetings from the MONA in rainy hobart 1. the underground picnic outside The Museum of Everything 2. me in the edgy bathroom 3. the human canvas, Tim Steiner

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David Walsh, Landscapes.

I’m loving artist David Walsh’s singular take on landscapes.  It certainly is always refreshing to come across something so vastly different than the norm.

Supersonic Art apparel?  Yes, please!

Found over at the amazing BOOOOOOOM!

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...as journalist David Walsh in a great Armstrong-documentary: The Program