Decolonising the Fanny: The Flesh and The Vulva of Lived Experience
Here's what my PhD would look like if I were a taxpayer-funded student
Funding: £1.2 million, Years: 2024-2028
Decolonising the Fanny: The Flesh and The Vulva of Lived Experience
The fanny is a fleshy canal whose lived experience is experienced by people with fannies.
The diverse lived experiences of people with fannies has long been underestimated in cispatriarchheternormative spaces, intersecting with phallus oppression.
After Covid-19, the need to understand the diverse and marginalised experiences of fannies has never been more pressing.
Covid-19 exposed rife socioeconomic inequities between those whose fannies have been decolonised, and those whose fannies have not.
Decolonising the Fanny: The Flesh and The Vulva of Lived Experience aims to bring together scholars, fanny experts, artists, theorists and practitioners of the vulva to examine the importance of decolonised (and colonised) fannies.
The project will adopt innovative and critical approaches to the subject to foster bodily discussions and intersectional collaborations, between The Vagina Museum and The National Gallery of Fannies.
We will celebrate the richness of the fanny, while drawing on fannies of different cultural and linguistic traditions, including non-European and indigenous fannies, alongside new and innovative fannies.
This project will help further public understanding of fannies, and their lived experience, while strengthening ties to the non-fannied world.
Some of the research will be dedicated to addressing the global environmental crisis and other contemporary challenges, explored through multispecies engagements with fannies.
The concluding conference will be accompanied by a public storytelling event in Canterbury.
On a serious note, do you ever wonder about the opportunity costs here? Imagine what some competent researchers in serious disciplines could do with the money that’s been sprayed at decolonising the fanny projects. Would that we might actually have advanced the sum of human knowledge.
I would place a small wager that as your investigations into the murky world of piss-take PhDs continues you will find that this very project is already underway. And probably with a more generous budget. Your pitch was a bit parsimonious on the money if this is to be done with the seriousness and thoroughness it merits.