MADE BY SEA AND WOOD, IN DARKNESS BY ALEXANDROS PLASATIS – REVIEW

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged abuse, Alexandros Plasatis, anthropology, consent, Egypt, featured, Greece, homophobia, humour, Kavala, literature, Made by Sea and Wood in Darkness, migration, misogyny, novel, police, review, sex, sexual hara, sexual violence, surrealism, trans, translation, violence, xenophobia.

By Carmina Masoliver

Content warning: references to and short descriptions of sexual harassment, sexual violence, xenophobia, homophobic & transphobic abuse.

Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness, the debut novel by Alexandros Plasatis, weaves together a collage of stories that tell the experience of Egyptian immigrants in Greece through a variety of voices. The stories are primarily set in and around Café Papaya in Kavala, where Pavlo the waiter works nights, acting as both a main character and an observer of the Egyptian fishermen. In snapshots of a male underworld, violence dominates this narrative, as the central female character Angie the barmaid fights against being cast as a victim.

I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE REVIEW

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged arsenal pulp, art, book, care, consent, David Ng, essays, featured, gender, hope, indigenous, justice, Kai Cheng Thom, Khelsilem, massy books, Musqueam, poetry, qtpoc, queer, radical, review, Squamish, trans, Tsleil-Waututh, vancouver, writing.

by Alex Valente

Content warning: suicide

On the evening of Friday, 18^th October 2019, I attended Massy Books launch of Kai Cheng Thom’s latest book I Hope We Choose Love – A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, a collection of non-fiction and short poetic pieces that together form a net of radical hope-building for a time – and it has been a long time, as rightly noted in the introduction – when all hope seems lost. I follow Kai Cheng’s work online already, but I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the event. I’m glad to say I’m still not entirely sure what happened.Continue Reading

DON’T FUCKING TOUCH ME – THE APOLOGY

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged alcohol, apology, art, band, behaviour, consent, creative criticism, design, DIY, faintest idea, follow, gig, groping, hug, hugs, lgbtQ+, microaggression, misogyny, music, performance, personal account, personal space, physical contact, punk, queer, response, safe space, Sara Harrington, series, sexual assault, Ska, touring, women in music.

by Sara Harrington

A series exploring women and genderqueer identities within the DIY Punk and Arts scenes. In this installment Sara Harrington depicts scenes from her own experience playing in a touring ska punk band.

DON’T FUCKING TOUCH ME

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged alcohol, arts, band, consent, creative criticism, DIY, faintest idea, gig, groping, microaggression, misogyny, music, performance, personal account, punk, Sara Harrington, series, sexual assault, Ska, touring, women in music.

by Sara Harrington

CW: verbal and sexual assault

Part of a series exploring women and genderqueer identities within the DIY Punk and Arts scenes. In this installment, Sara Harrington depicts scenes from her own experience playing in a touring ska punk band.

‘Ticket please.’
Trumpet case in hand, I try to enter the venue as my bandmates breeze on by.
‘I’m playing actually.’
This is uttered with an embarrassed air, the knock to my ego glances across my face. Fair enough, I’ve not been in the band long.
‘Oh, who are you with? There’s no guest list.’
‘Sorry, I play trumpet in the band.’
Lifting my trumpet case, I point at it awkwardly. A nod as it’s decided that I pass all requirements necessary to gain free entry to a show I’m playing. I go to join my bandmates as we pile our gear into the backroom and start setting up for sound check.Continue Reading

FIGHTING THE IRON SERPENT

Posted on October 9, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #noDAPL, consent, DAPL, defend, environment, first nation, folklore, food, Illinois, indigenous people, indigenous rights, international, legend, mohawk, myth, National Guard, nature, North Dakota Access Pipeline, oil, oil industry, prophecy, protest, racism, rights, school, Sioux, solidarity, Standing Rock, tale, US, USA, water, Water Protectors.

by Teiowí:sonte Thomas Deer
Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory

When I was in Grade 2, I recall my teacher telling us a legend in class that I would hear many times later in my life. It was about this boy who lived long ago in a Kanien’kehá:ka village. While exploring around the river’s edge, he noticed two shiny things in the water. When he picked them up he discovered they were serpents – one gold and one silver. The serpents were barely alive and the boy returned home with them and nursed them back to health.

In time these serpents became healthy again and began to grow larger and larger. And as they grew, so did their appetites. The boy could no longer feed them enough so they began to consume the village’s food. The people of the village attempted to cast out the beasts, but by this point they had become too large to control and the serpents began to attack and consume the people of the village. Soon, the two serpents began to attack and plunder other villages. The people fled and made their way to the mountains. Pursuing the people, the two serpents smashed into mountains, poisoned the rivers, and ravished the earth.Continue Reading

THE RIGHT TO HATE: SEX, SCIENCE, AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged aggression, animal behaviour, biology, Blurred Lines, Carry that Weight, consent, consent culture, discourse, documentary, human behaviour, Kerry Sulkowicz, language, mating, meaning, Norfolk Police, rape, Rape culture, right to mate, SAAC, science, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, Thicke, words.

by Paige Selby-Green

TW: sexual assault, rape.

It’s time we talked about sex. Or, actually – it’s time we talked about how we talk about sex. For people who put sex in every conceivable form of media, we get awfully squeamish when it comes to talking about it like grown-ups. We’d rather let ways of talking about sex remain unchanged for decades than update them to be less 1950s and a lot more healthy.

Let’s get to the point: how is it that the same species that can build spaceships and write masterpieces such as Hamilton came up with the phrase “the right to mate?” And why is it still in common use?Continue Reading

CARTOONS AND CONSENT

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Alli Kirkham, art, Blue Seat Studios, cartoons, comics, consent, Emmeline May, illustration, respect, road safety, sex, Tea Consent, Think!, Victim blaming, visual art.

by Jess Howard

You would think that consent is a straightforward issue. If someone does not want to have sex with you, or is not able to tell you they want to have sex with you, then don’t have sex with them. Period. But, sadly, this is not always the case, and there is often a haze and grey area around the issue. So, to clear up any confusion, a number of artists have taken to drawing step by step analogies about the issue, in attempts to make it as clear as possible. But my question is: are we reducing a dangerous issue to nothing more than a doodle?Continue Reading

VICTIM BLAMING – NORFOLK CONSTABULARY AND CONSENT

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged consent, feminism, feminist, harrassment, Never OK, norfolk, Norfolk constabulary, norwich, Rape culture, Sexualviolence, UEA, Victim blaming.

Content Warning: discussions of sexual violence and victim blaming

By Jo Swo

Just like how a teacher is expected to have a clear understanding of the subject their teaching, police should have a clear understanding of the crimes they are fighting. How else can you identify the crime and help the victim? This is a very simple analogy to a very complicated issue: rape and sexual assault. The factors that protect rape and rapists are the same that perpetuate rape culture; victim blaming, lack of education, and the fallibility of consent. Over the last year I have been troubled with the Norfolk Constabulary’s attitudes towards consent and their continual victim blaming. During Fresher’s week a police officer took a photo of an incapacitated student who was slumped on Price of Wales Road, covered in vomit and unconscious, which was then uploaded onto Twitter with the hashtag ‘KnowYourLimits’ and @ing UEA and the Student’s Union.

WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH FEMINISTS AND NIPPLES?

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged American Apparel, art, artist, artwork, beauty, bodies, breast feeding, breasts, consent, design, fashion, feminism, feminist, free the nipple, media, no more page 3, nudity, page 3, sex workers.

Content warning: nudity.

by Asia PatelContinue Reading

By Carmina Masoliver

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