PSA Archives

Four months ago the great Buck Angel released a fantastic PSA encouraging transmen to get an annual pap test in order to check for precancerous cells. I posted about this a while back while discussing some of my favorite PSAs in terms of STD awareness.

Recently Drew Deveaux worked with Buck Angel to create a new PSA encouraging trans women to get prostate exams. If a trans woman takes estrogen therapy, her chances of prostate cancer are reduced, but there is still a risk. Get yourself checked!

Drew wrote a fantastic blog post about her PSA. Drew is one of the few, but strong, queer porn activists. She fucks well on camera and educates a diverse range of people on trans rights. I particularly enjoy her work on developing the term “cisnormativity,” which you can read more about in her blog post.

For more information, click here for a quick fact sheet on health and wellness for trans women by LGBThealth.net.

As much as I’d like this post to be “yay! awareness and sex and love!” It should be noted how much shit Buck Angel, along with many others, puts up with due to his work and who he is. Recently Buck published on his twitter feed a response to his PSA:

“You fucking suck You fake piece of shit. Your twisted amusement damages too fucking much. I can’t get proper medical care because of the perversion you have taxed the doctors with Your lies, for your Halloween costumes. Men don’t have pussies it is incompatible with male chemistry asshole”

I wanted to post the hate that Buck receives to keep everyone aware. Sometimes hate and discrimination are in your face, and other times it’s a little more subtle. Get your pronouns right, people. Respect the pronoun a person uses. And don’t assume you know the pronoun. Furthermore, everyone has a right to proper health care, everyone has a right to live how they see fit. This isn’t Halloween, this isn’t for twisted amusement. This is life.

Keep yourself in check, and get checked.

(image from http://www.curriki.org/)

Europe, Europe, Europe. What have you done now?

European PSA’s have consistently, in my not-so-humble opinion, been leading in creative ways of informing the public on important health and humanitarian issues. Whether it’s through creepy, surrealist images of people doing the nasty with insects, dream-like animated ads promoting HIV awareness or satirical print ads encouraging the use of condoms in order to prevent breeding the next Hitler. And then there are some PSA’s where I can’t help but sarcastically think to myself (I like being sarcastic…to myself), “maaaaaaaybe that’s just a liiiiiiiiittle too far.”

Below is the video of a recent PSA where they have gone too far, too decadent, too scare tactic-ty and overall just making me sit there and think “really?” In the below ad, famed burlesque star Ancilla Tilla begins her sultry burlesque performance in front a dimly lit audience and just when she strips down to nothing but pasties…a fisherman pops up, clubs and begins to skin her alive. According non-profit org in Holland, this is the perfect message for informing the public that fish are skinned and gutted alive every day. WARNING: pretty damn graphic, this video is.

What? Really? We’re going to make that analogy again? Maybe I’m biased because that halibut I had last week in Bodega Bay was amazingly delicious, but that seems like a dramatic leap to me. More so, the use of sexuality, and specifically, female sexuality to grab the viewers attention is below the belt (sorry). Then add in the use of violence against women to bring up your point that it’s just like violence against that delicious halibut I thoroughly enjoyed makes it even more ludicrous to me. I’m all for humane treatment of animals, but I’m not in support of cheapening the cause against violence towards women.

What say you? Is this a valid and effective method of promoting humane treatment towards women…I mean fish…I mean, what was that ad about again?

(via http://www.popporn.com)