IS THIS DEMOCRACY?

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged abuse, acab, art, cressida dick, domestic abuse, featured, fuck the police, Home Office, killthebill, met, metropolitan police, original art, original artwork, police, police brutality, policebill, Priti Patel, rape, reclaim the night, reclaim these streets, sarah everard, Sisters Uncut, violence, women, yo te creo.

by Samantha Rajasingham

The background shows an anonymous police officer in yellow high-viz jacket over washed out black background, black gloves, blue face mask, and black UK police hat, but blacked out face; the foreground shows an orange femme silhouette, holding a placard in her right hand; the placard reads 'IS THIS Democracy?' — Image description: A visual watercolour response to the Sarah Everard case, Reclaim These Streets, Sisters Uncut and the violence of the police across the country against all women protesting for their safety and loss.
The background shows an anonymous police officer in yellow high-viz jacket over washed out black background, black gloves, blue face mask, and black UK police hat, but blacked out face; the foreground shows an orange femme silhouette, holding a placard in her right hand; the placard reads ‘IS THIS Democracy?’

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AUDACIOUS SOLIDARITY – TWISTED EAST BENEFIT GIG, GRINGOS, FEB 3RD

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged Anna Bird, benefit gig, Central America, compass children's charity, Dandelion Florence, domestic abuse, domestic violence, Fawcett Society, featured, gender equality, homelessness, leeway, live music, meinhof, music, norwich, police violence, politics, public sector cuts, punk, punk 4 the homeless, Radioactive Rats, social services, Sucking Grunts, Twisted East Promotion, violence against women, women's refuges.

by Tim Forster

Content warning: mentions domestic abuse, violence against women, violence against children

Twisted East Promotion have teamed up with Punk 4 The Homeless to put on a benefit gig at Gringos, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich on 3rd February 2018. The gig will raise money for local Women’s Refuges, Leeway Domestic Violence and Abuse Services and Punk 4 The Homeless, who support homeless children in Central America.

PENNY BEALE MEMORIAL FUND NIGHT AT HASTINGS FRINGE FESTIVAL

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Alice Denny, Carol Prior, Chris Fraser, Cut Piece, Darren Maher, domestic abuse, domestic violence, dublin, gig, Hastings, Hastings Fringe, Hastings Fringe Festival, JC McFee, Las Pasionarias, Lisa Harmer-Pope, Mellow Baku, Miranda Gavin, music, Penny Beale, Penny Beale Memorial Fund, poetry, Spinal Krapp, spoken word, Survivor, victim, Yoko Ono.

by Carmina Masoliver

cw: mentions domestic violence

At the end of September, I attended and took part in Hastings Fringe Festival and got the chance to watch Spinal Krapp by Darren Maher, a ‘stand-up tragedy’ based in Dublin in the 1980s. Although initially uncertain, I ended feeling thoughtful about the piece, which explored the impact of violence on children, as well as looking at the ‘making of a monster’. When it comes to domestic violence, whoever the victim or perpetrator, it is ultimately about power and control. It was interesting to see this prior to attending the fundraiser for Penny Beale Memorial Fund, which similarly weaved tragedy and comedy together, bringing a different kind of poignancy to the night.

The Penny Beale Memorial Fund was started by the mother of Penny Beale (of the same name), whose daughter was murdered in 2001 after years of abuse by her partner. The charity aims to offer information and advice about domestic abuse through various means. The fundraiser opened with an introduction by Penny Beale, and a song by Carol Prior, who also compered the evening. Also on a musical note, Las Pasionarias’ powerful folk songs had an uplifting effect and there was a great feeling of sisterhood as they sang together, wearing in red and white flowers pinned to their clothes. The audience joined in for a song about Mother Earth, where we were united in its message of care and respect. Mellow Baku took to the stage with a guitar, referencing having grown up in a cult. Although the details were not spoken of in the same specificity as others, the emotions of this were shown through song. Baku not only delivered songs on guitar, but also recited poetry, making use of loop pedals and her incredible voice.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS ALWAYS VIOLENCE

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, identity, male domestic violence, masculinity, men, parity, refuge, safe house, Shelter, Sunderland, women.

by Kenny Priestley

Content warning: article mentions abuse and domestic violence

This is an article submitted in response to Flashmob Dancers Demand an End to Violence Against Women.

The term domestic violence, for most of us brings to mind the image of a woman being beaten or in some way abused by a man. Rarely do we stop to think that domestic violence is also a crime committed against men. The unfortunate truth is that both sexes can be abusive and violent and even murderous toward each other.

Despite it being a fact that men also suffer domestic violence at the hands of women, it seems that this is a taboo subject. Even a search of the internet will reveal little, in comparison to a similar search regarding woman as the victims of domestic violence. When stories of the abuse of men by women are found the numbers of men that are subject to domestic violence vary wildly from site to site and report to report. The one thing that does stand out among these figures is that when abuse committed against men by women is found, the numbers of men being abused is often quoted as being lower on the sites that are almost exclusively for women, as opposed to the sites for male sufferers of domestic violence. Continue Reading

SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES – SISTERS UNCUT, YARL’S WOOD AND DIRECT ACTION

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anti austerity, austerity, campaign, campaigning, cuts, direct action, disabled people against cuts, domestic abuse, domestic violence, grassroots, immigration, international, intersectional feminism, intersectionality, london radical housing network, migration, Movement for Justice, non-violent direct action, nvda, student rent strikes, Yarl's Wood.

TW: Violence against women, domestic abuse, rape

By Abbie Mulcairn

The debate over the effectiveness of ‘traditional’ forms of campaigning like phone banking, door knocking, compared with ‘direct’ actions like demonstrations, protests and occupations, is long-running, but ultimately counter-productive. As part of this debate, direct action is often attacked for ignoring or speaking over the voices of ‘ordinary people’, or for having little impact in the ‘real world’.

REVIEW: HANNAH SILVA’S ‘SHLOCK!’

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged 50 Shades of Grey, abuse, art, BDSM, BSL, cancer, chemotherapy, deaf, domestic abuse, EL James, feminism, Hannah Silva, Kathy Acker, motherhood, parenthood, performance, poem, poetry, poets, review, sexualisation, sexuality, show, sign language, women, women poets.

by Carmina Masoliver

Hannah Silva’s work can be difficult to penetrate; there is not necessarily a fixed meaning, and in the notes given prior to ‘Schlock!‘ she quotes Kathy Acker by saying to ‘get rid of meaning. Your mind is a nightmare that has been eating you. Now eat your mind.’ This in itself requires interpretation: we place so much emphasis on meaning in our lives, this can destroy our minds, and so perhaps the best way to remove the self-doubt that I’m going to be “wrong” in my view of the work is to eat my mind, take control of the way the dots connect, and the ways they don’t.Continue Reading

‘MY CHOICE’ AND WHETHER IT IS A BURDEN TO US ALL

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged abortion, domestic abuse, education, exploitation, female foeticide, feminism, feminist, film, gender, health, Homi Adajania, India, intersectionality, kyriarchy, laxmi Narayan Tripathi, marriage, my choice, patni-vrata, poverty, Sanjuka Basu, se, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, transgender, transgender rights activist, video, vogue, vogue india, women.

by Srishti Dutta Chowdhury

Disclaimer: Mentions female foeticide, abortion, and domestic abuse.

As part of the Vogue Empower project, that was initiated in October 2014, to commemorate the seventh year for Vogue in India, Homi Adajania’s video ‘My Choice’ features some prominent faces in the country of India. Besides Deepika Padukone, there’s Adjania’s wife, actress Nimrat Kaur, film critic Anupama Chopra, and Director Zoya Akhtar, among others.

The video went viral on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, in a matter of days — which is great news except it garnered negative criticisms everywhere. The reservation against the video by feminists and gender activists is understandable. According to a large number, while the video seeks to raise questions such as ‘If men can do what they want, why should women be deprived of the same right?’, it falls short of effectively addressing the question of women empowerment.

NOT ‘JUST A STORY’: FIFTY SHADES AND AN ABUSIVE REALITY

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged abuse, abusive reality, arts, BDSM, domestic abuse, e l james, fantasy, feminism, fiction, fifty shades of grey, film, film industry, Harry Potter, media, microaggression, miriam grossman, nicola collins, rape, reality, romance, sexual violence, women, writing.

by Cadi Cliff

Content warning: mentions abuse and rape.

Fifty Shades of Grey. The Twilight fanfiction by E.L. James has sold over 100 million copies around the world. The film, with a Valentine’s weekend release, had been marketed as the ultimate date-night movie, an ‘incredible fairy-tale love story’, a piece of ‘mommy porn’. I’m going to start this by saying that yes, I have read the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy (borrowed, not bought), and no, I do not condone censorship. You are free to read and watch what you like. However there is something about the credibility given to Fifty Shades by the volume of individuals going to watch it — it took £1m in ticket sales ahead of its February 13^th 2015 release — that doesn’t sit well with this writer.Continue Reading

domestic abuse

IS THIS DEMOCRACY?

by Samantha Rajasingham

PENNY BEALE MEMORIAL FUND NIGHT AT HASTINGS FRINGE FESTIVAL

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS ALWAYS VIOLENCE

SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES – SISTERS UNCUT, YARL’S WOOD AND DIRECT ACTION

REVIEW: HANNAH SILVA’S ‘SHLOCK!’

‘MY CHOICE’ AND WHETHER IT IS A BURDEN TO US ALL

NOT ‘JUST A STORY’: FIFTY SHADES AND AN ABUSIVE REALITY

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