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Flor Garduno's images (see above) draw pensive gazes.
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favorite, and what they thought it
meant. Some remained quiet, deep in
thought.
“I think it’s a celebration of women
and fertility,” said Theresa N. Ham
mond, the Director and Curator of
the Guilford College Art Gallery.
Garduno has been publishing her
photography since her first book in
1985. She has been focusing on the
photography of still life and nudes
since the birth of her second child,
Olin, in 1995.
“Photography always shows as
pects of things or of other people that
you don’t know of,” said Garduno in
Inner Light.
Whether it’s photography or any
other type of art, the Guilford Col
lege Art Gallery continues to repre
sent a broad spectrum.
“Guilford makes sure that their
art exhibits come from many differ
ent places, constantly changing and
bringing in new cultures,” said senior
Laura Dukeshire, who attended the
reception.
Hammond first found Flor Gar-
duno’s art in a search for something
to go along with Isabel AUende com
ing for the Brian series and the cur
rent celebration of Latin American
culture at Guilford.
Hammond looked around the ex
hibit the day after the opening, it’s
quiet and peaceful atmosphere con
trasting with that of the previous day.
“In each of these pictures, there’s
a story ... it’s a gift and I hope that
students would appreciate it and en
joy it,” Hammond said.
Hammond is not the only one
who finds Garduno’s work moving;
she has been called a “poet photog
rapher,” depicting countless messages
within her work.
“Powerfully suggestive atmo
spheres, people and objects trans
formed, enhanced, by the aura of the
poetic metaphor,” Volcow said about
Garduno’s work.
Garduno speaks to Volcow in In
ner Light about how most of the
women in her pictures are friends,
and the immense gift it is for them
to pose.
“It seems that the women who de
cide to pose for a picture go through
a very profound acceptance of their
womanhood and their image, they
dare to pose and feel beautiful and be
themselves,” Garduno said. “Some
thing inside becomes unbound.”
"Sex, lies, and the morning after"
By Joanna Bernstein
Staff Writer
Consent is the freedom to say ‘spank me daddy’ to your
partner during sex,” said senior Joe Pelcher during “Sex,
Lies, and the Morning After” (SLMO).
Presented by seniors Ana Martinez, Michael O’Malley,
and Madeleine Pope, SLMO was performed by Guilford
students on Nov. 1 in affiliation with Students Against Rape
Culture (SARC).
“The vignettes present very complex issues regarding
sexual assault, and consent, or shared permission for sexual
activity in a dramatically simplified form,” Martinez said.
While the crowed laughed as the actors mocked the cra
ziness of the college party scene, the motivation behind the
production of SLMO was serious.
“Only three percent of rapes on college campuses are re
ported (to the police),” Martinez said during the show. This
low number represents the shame that rape victims often
feel after being assaulted.
According to RapeHelp.com, many women feel that be-
ing raped or sexually assaulted was partially their fault be
cause they did not clearly say no or withdraw consent during
foreplay.
SLMO aimed to erase this victim guUt and show stu
dents how to clearly give or withdraw consent before or dur
ing sexual intercourse.
“We can work together to end sexual violence and
change our culture,” said senior women’s studies major Katie
Yow. “But first we need to talk about it.”
The first skit began the dramatized dialogue that Yow
insisted be started. Sophomore Mary Pearl Monnes was dis
graced when Joe Pelcher continued to fill up her cup of cof
fee after she clearly told him to stop. Monnes felt violated
that her wishes had been ignored.
During the next vignette, an innocent man, first-year
David McKinley-Ward reported being robbed.-Wh^n Mi'^
chael O’Malley, the policeman, arrived, he accused McIGhr
ley-Ward of looking as if he had wanted to be robbed. '
Suggesting that McKinley-Ward “was asking for it” by
wearing a nice jacket and shoes is similar to the explanation
that numerous rapists use when attempting to excuse their
actions. According to RapeHelp.com, many rapists and at
tackers reported that the victim seemed like, but did not say
that, they wanted to have sex.
The actors began to mock the college party scene during
the third vignette. Junior Nasimeh Easton was flirting with
Katie Yow and moving progressively closer to her on the
couch. As Easton moved in for what viewers expected to be
a kiss, she asked Yow for two hundred dollars, a metaphor
for sex.
“No!” Y)w said. Easton continued to pressure Yow, in
vading her personal space further, but Yow wouldn’t budge.
Yow made it clear that while not consenting isn’t always
easy, it s vital to maintaining self-respect and security.
While the first three vignettes featured two actors at a
time, the last two simultaneously involved all of the cast
members and directors.
In the fourth skit cast members offered various defini
tions of what consent is, and ways that it can be expressed.
Consent is fully conscious and confident intimacy,”
Pelcher said. “It’s about safer and better sex.”
The rest of the cast echoed similar messages before tran
sitioning to the final vignette.
The play concluded with “Sex Kwan Doe”, an x-rated
martial arts class. Michael O’Malley played a karate instruc
tor teaching his fellow cast members the three principles
that comprise consent.
“Communication, observation, and respect equals con
sent!” the cast shouted, mimicking their instructor.
On that collective and empowering chant, the cast joined
hands and bowed.
Bathanti to speak at Guilford
Joseph Bathanti
is an acclaimed poet
from North Carolina.
Joseph Bathanti, an award-winning novelist
and poet, will give a poetry reading on Monday,
Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Founders Galler)’: He is
currently professor of creative writing and co-di
rector of the Visiting Writers Series at Appala
chian State Lfniversity.
Bathanti is the author of four books of poetry:
“Communion Partners,” “Anson County,” “The
Feast of All Saints,”and “This Metal,’’which was
nominated for The National Book Award and
won the 1997 Oscar Arnold Y)ung Award from
The North Carolina Poetry Council.
His first novel, “East Liberty,” was published
in 2001 and was the winner of the Carolina
Novel Award. His latest novel, “Coventry,” was
the winner of the 2006 Novell© Literary Award.
“They Changed the State: The Legacy of
North Carolina’s Visiting Artists, 1971-1995”
is his book of nonfiction that was published in
early2007.
Most recently, his collection of short stories,
“The High Heart,” won the 2007 Spokane Prize
and vras published by Eastern Washington Uni
versity Press in fall 2007.
Bathanti has won numerous national and
state awards and his poetry, fiction, and non-fic
tion have been featured in publications and jour
nals across the nation.