NORFOLK’S EASTERN MERMAIDS OF THE QUIDDITCH PREMIER LEAGUE

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Cambridge, commentary, contact, Eastern Mermaids, external, fitness, gender, Harry Potter, health, inclusive, lgbtQ+, London Monarchs, norfolk, Quidditch, rules, score, Southeast Knights, Southwest Broadside, sport, sports, torunament.

by Laura Jamieson

Last Saturday, July 15th, saw the Eastern Mermaids travel to Upton-Upon-Severn to compete in the second southern fixture for the Quidditch Premiere League. Quidditch – a real, full contact, mixed gendered sport – has rapidly grown over the last ten years, with over 500 teams across 26 countries, competing in national and international tournaments. Played using ‘brooms’ made of PVC pipe, the players aim to score points by throwing the quaffle through three hoops on opposite ends of the pitch, all whilst avoiding beaters, players armed with dodgeballs aiming to briefly knock their opponents out of the game.

After 20 minutes, the seekers and snitch take the pitch, a player from each team aiming to ‘catch’ a tag rugby style ball in a sock attached to the back of a neutral player’s shorts. Quaffle goals are worth 10 points, with a snitch catch worth 30 points and ending the game. Full contact and competitive, the sport has seen many people otherwise disinterested or alienated from mainstream popular sports become engaged and active, some going from stationary nerds to cardio and protein enthusiasts, other players having previously played sport, joining due to the appeal of a unique, inclusive sport unlike any other.Continue Reading

MENTAL HEALTH – THE GOVERNMENT’S MYTH

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged art therapy, cbt, counseling, education, expectations, external, funding, generations, good mental health, government, group therapy, headspace, information, institutions, media, mental health, mental wellbeing, Mind, mindfullness, society, student, wellbeing, work.

by Nicholl Hardwick

Content warning: article discusses mental health, depression and anxiety.

The mind has been described as ‘the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought’ The mind controls the ways in which we relate to the world outside of our own heads, or in other words, the way we connect with reality

A state of ‘good mental health’ is when an individual is able to not only psychologically manage, but also thrive in the world around them. We live in an increasingly complex society with unique pressures, therefore, good mental health means that an individual is able to understand society cognitively and respond appropriately to everyday situations with the expected level of emotion, concentration and understanding.

However, this is where it becomes tricky. What society expects from us and what society tells us are two very different things.Continue Reading

SHIVA WRITING IN HEBREW & GREEK

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged contribution, creative writing, external, Greek, hebrew, manhattan, non-binary, poem, poet, poetry, rose knapp, shiva, submission, writing.

by Rose Knapp

Ur
Obz
Both
Insane zeitgeists
Or post-modern
Odd Jung Freudian
Profitable Prophets
Salem salām kalam
Still the same Paul?Continue Reading

A FUNNY THING ABOUT AUTISM

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged aspergers, aspergers syndrome, autism, autistic spectrum, compassion, creativity, dan akroyd, differences, einstein, emotions, equality, external, mozart, newsfeed, relationship, social media, stand up, steve jobs, susan boyle, women.

by Aaron Hood

Article mentions gun violence, death, ableism, and contains strong language.

I’m taking my meme lord hat off for a second for something a bit more serious. Recently my newsfeed has consisted of dank memes, depressing Trump based shenanigans and salacious nonsense about what celebrity has indulged in whatever inanity this week. It’s strange how little chance anything that the algorithm that dictates my social media viewing has of showing me something that holds any real interest to me.

I came across a study via my newsfeed showing that we’re not far off eradicating Autism from children in the womb or whatever witchcraft those science people do now.Continue Reading

REVIEW: MOONRISE BY ELLA CHAPPELL

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art review, arts, As Yet Untitled, bad nights, beauty, book review, Crescent, Donald Trump, Ella Chappell, emotion, external, feminism, flowers, fun, good nights, happiness, independent press, learn, Lewis Buxton, love, moon, moonrise, moons, NASA, night clubs, poems, poetry, poetry review, publisher, review, scientific theory, sex, sexual fantasies, stones, zinnia.

by Lewis Buxton

Moonrise’s publisher, As Yet Untitled, is an ‘independent press that specialises in limited edition, handmade works that embrace the breadth of possibility in the book’s form’. The book is beautifully made, a fragile thing one worries about reading with a cup of tea too close. Interesting then to consider the fragility of the book’s form with the robustness of the poems. Moonrise, by Ella Chappell, is a book about sex and love and flowers and moons and stones and good nights and bad nights and scientific theories and the gravity that pulls at us all. These aren’t new themes. But that’s what I like about this book; there is at once a familiarity to it but still a newness in the words, a fresh light on the scene.Continue Reading

RESISTANCE VOICES: THOSE WHO MARCHED FOR WOMEN

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 'Nawlins, angelenos, anti-fascism, antifa, banner, Beyonce, Black Lives Matters, boston, Cardiff, class, collaboration, collective, deplorable, Donald Trump, dyke, external, fascism, feminist, femme, fight back, first they came, genitalia, global crisis, guthrie, Hallelujah, human rights, ideology, LA, Leonard Cohen, london, Los Angeles, march, marginalisation, nasty women, New Orleans, objectification, oppression, pastor martin niemöller, performance, POC, poem, police, protest, protest 101, protestors, pussy, pussy power, race, religion, resist, resistance, Rufus Wainwright, sexuality, Trump, US, US administration, US election, uterus, voices, washington dc, white feminist, womanhood, women, women of colour, womens march, wont bow.

In the aftermath of the Women’s March — a worldwide protest in resistance to Donald Trump on Saturday January 21st 2017 that saw an estimated 4.6million people take to the streets in the US alone — The Norwich Radical’s Tara Debra G and Cadi Cliff put a call out. This article is the product of that call out, which asked for thoughts from those who identified as women and who attended one of the many Women’s Marches on why they marched. These are just some voices, but they speak from across the UK and the US in an act of collaboration, solidarity, and resistance. Continue Reading

THE INTERNET IS BREAKING

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AI, alternative intelligence, archaeologists, Baghdad battery, break, civilisations, digital age, evolution, external, God, gods, google maps, human engineering, internet, ipad, life, malfunction, mortality, promethean, radio, simplify, technology, Turing test, virtual world.

by Pip Morgan

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” -Vladimir Lenin.

The internet is breaking, this news greeted my ears during the early days of last summer, the man speaking on the radio (the expert), was trying very hard to make the problem intelligible to the layman, explaining the momentary stammers and false starts. Interestingly this is the recent diagnosis that the internet received; at running the risk of over simplifying; it is ‘on the blip’.

All over the world there are anonymous administrators monitoring the waves, and giving it the occasional zap with the equivalent of a defibrillator when servers become overloaded.Continue Reading

KARL MARX DEFENDS HENRY KISSINGER BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged capitalist, chief defense counsel, class struggle, Clinton, death, distinguished public service award, drones, east timor, external, gaddafi, henry kissinger, ICC, international criminal court, iraq, karl marx, kissinger, Libya, Madeleine Albright, mass murderers, nobel peace prize, nuremberg, obama, reaper drones, satire, the hague, war hero, West, writing.

by Gary Olson

Content warning: mentions mass murder and drone warfare

Mr. Robert Walpole
Editor-in-Chief
The Onion
1000 Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Dear Mr. Walpole:

I read in The Atlantic that Cole Bolton, The Onion’s editor in 2015, said that his publication is devoted to “calling out bullshit” and has “had an anti-corporate rebellious streak throughout [their] editorial history.”

Taking that mission seriously, I submit to you the satire below.

In the spirit of speaking truth to power,

Gary Olson

In a parallel universe, Henry Kissinger is being prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Seated at the table with Kissinger is his cunning choice for Chief Defense Counsel, none other than Karl Marx.

The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor addresses the three-judge Trial Chamber, reminding them that the preamble of the Rome Statute establishing the court states “that the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished.”

She draws upon a myriad of impeccable sources, including historian Greg Grandin’s new book Kissinger’s Shadow. The judges are stunned by the prosecutor’s searing portrayal of the defendant’s alleged responsibility for so many deaths — six million in Indochina alone. An anguished look crosses the face of Norwegian judge Olaf Ingeborg as he watches some unspeakably macabre visual evidence.Continue Reading

HOW THE LEFT CREATED DONALD TRUMP

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged activisim, AFD, BAME, church of england, communist party, conservatives, credit crunch, daily mail, donal trump, ethnic minorities, external, far right, financial crisis, Gordon Brown, industrial communities, left, LePen, LGBT+, margaret thatcher, marginalised, metropolitan liberal elite, michael foot, michael sheen, middle class, neil kinnock, neoliberal, new democrats, new labour, Peter Mandelson, Port Talbot, postindustrial Britain, privatisation, racism, rise of fascism, SDP, sexism, social conservatism, social justice, Thatcher, tony blair, tory party, UKIP, Wales, Welsh, women, working class.

by anonymous

There’s something darkly comical about Michael Sheen’s intention to abandon acting in favour of defeating the far right. An esteemed actor, deeply immersed in the world of theatre and art, jetting off to Port Talbot to tell working class Welsh people, caught up in a wave of revolt against the ‘metropolitan liberal elite’, what to do. It couldn’t be any more counter-productive if the embodiment of this elitism, Tony Blair himself, had made the journey — although I suppose someone who has played him is good enough.Continue Reading

ART OF NORWICH: DOING WHAT YOU CAN TO MAKE CHANGE

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged art, art of norwich, artists, charity, disabled artists, DPAC, englightening the eye's mind, external, norwich, rus ki, st margarets church, sunflowers, super sight hound rescue, Vince Law.

by Jan McLachlan

On a chilly December evening I went to St Margaret’s Church of Art in Norwich for the opening of ‘Enlightening the Eye’s Mind’. Rus Ki, the organiser of the exhibitions there, has a history of hosting thought provoking, inclusive exhibitions that are open to all artists and with no funding from the Arts Council or any government/corporate body. As Rus Ki says ‘providing our artists the freedom to articulate and express themselves however they choose’. This was no exception, with interesting and beautiful work by local artists, several of whom are disabled artists.

I was particulary looking forward to seeing (and hearing) Vince Laws’ work. Vince is an artist, a poet, a political campaigner and an activist. His politics often inform his artwork, but recently, as he says ‘I wanted something brighter to work on alongside some of the campaigning’.Continue Reading

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NORFOLK’S EASTERN MERMAIDS OF THE QUIDDITCH PREMIER LEAGUE

SHIVA WRITING IN HEBREW & GREEK

REVIEW: MOONRISE BY ELLA CHAPPELL

RESISTANCE VOICES: THOSE WHO MARCHED FOR WOMEN

THE INTERNET IS BREAKING

KARL MARX DEFENDS HENRY KISSINGER BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

ART OF NORWICH: DOING WHAT YOU CAN TO MAKE CHANGE

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