THE PROBLEM WITH ‘FEMINIST’ INSTAGRAM

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Carmina Masoliver, cecilia nguyen, chnge, feminism, feminist, Instagram, itsfeminism, jacob castaldi, march, sam sedlack, social media, tanner sweitzer, womxn.

by Carmina Masoliver

In December, I found out that the Instagram account, simply titled ‘feminist’ is run by two cis-gender white men: Tanner Sweitzer and Jacob Castaldi.

Accounts like ‘feminist’ become popular by reposting relevant content from others without creating their own. This means they have more time to simply put out more content. The focus of the account revolves around it being relatable to their target audience, and so part of the responsibility also falls with us as the audience, to make sure we follow the tagged content creators, supporting them rather than simply ‘liking’ posts, and interrogating who is behind such popular accounts when that transparency isn’t there.

FERTILITY AS A FEMINIST ISSUE AT WOW FESTIVAL 2018

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged a fertile education, bell hooks, featured, feminism, feminist, fertility, IVF, pregnancy, relationships, She Grrrowls, southbank centre, women of the world, wow, WOW 2018, WOW Festival 2018, WOW London.

by Carmina Masoliver

Part 1 of 2

Women of the World (WOW) Festival is always place for stimulating and challenging debate on important issues of the day. It was a privilege to be involved this year with my own segment with She Grrrowls as part of Gem’s Jam on the Sunday, featuring poets Bridget Minamore and Selina Nwulu, with live music from Roxanne Tatae and DJ sets from Born N Bread, Jamz Supernova, and host Gemma Cairney.

I also sat in on three very different panel discussions. I focus on only two panels, as the third, Testimony, included confidential accounts of women’s experiences of rape – an important and powerful space for their stories to be shared. I will dedicate this part one to the first panel I attended:

REVIEW: THE MISANDRISTS BY BRUCE LABRUCE

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Bruce LaBruce, cinema, feminism, feminist, film, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, gay, genesis cinema, lesbian, LGBT+, LGBT+ film, matriarchal society, queer film, satire, sex, sexual obsession, The Misandrists, violence, Whitechapel, women.

by Carmina Masoliver

cw: mentions violence

Genesis Cinema, in London’s Whitechapel, is an independent cinema on the site of a pub-turned-music hall that first opened in 1848, and which housed a number of theatres before turning to the silver screen. As part of its Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, it screened German film The Misandrists by Bruce LaBruce. Complemented by a moderated discussion about the film, it raised a range of questions on the importance of author intent, the role of sex and violence in film, and the issue of when satire becomes mockery.

FEMINIST TOP PICKS – EDINBURGH FRINGE 2017: PART 3

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Chloe Rolfe, comedy, Edinburgh 2017, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe 2017, feminist, feminist art, feminist comedy, feminist theatre, Harry Rigby, homophobia, inua ellams, islamophobia, Laurie Ogden. Antonym Theatre, Malak Tammy Obaidi, performance, play, spoken word, stand up, The Völvas, theatre.

by Carmina Masoliver

Read part one of Carmina’s top feminist picks here.

Read part two of Carmina’s top feminist picks here.

CW: rape, sexual assault, islamophobia, homophobia

FUCK OFF, TERFS: DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERNET HATE MACHINE

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged bi erasure, female socialisation, feminism, feminist, gaslighting, gender, gender critical, gender reassignment, homophobia, intersectionality, LGBT+, men's rights movement, mental health, misogyny, Neo-Nazis, Neo-Nazism, online harassment, oppression, sex, social media, terf, trans exclusionary radical feminist, trans men, transgender, transphobia, twitter, twitter storm, women.

by Zoe Harding

Content warning: article contains strong language and mentions transphobia, rape, death threats, online harassment, homophobia, biphobia and bi erasure.

So this week a friend of mine said something on Twitter about accepting transgender people as people, regardless of genitalia. One of those reasonable discussions that occasionally ensue on the internet ensued, and ended with her getting dog-piled with sufficient angry, hateful messages to nearly crash her ageing iPhone and accusations ranging from homophobia to gaslighting and advocacy of corrective rape. While the barrage of tweets from a dozen accounts was polite by online discourse standards (for ‘polite’, read ‘no swearing but massively condescending, dismissive, pompous and worryingly intense’) the death threats and abuse that followed in private messages was significantly less so.

Once more, my friend had attracted the ire of the TERFs.Continue Reading

ROAR: RAISING FUNDS FOR WOMEN’S REFUGES

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged Anna Bird, benefit gig, cabaret, celebration, Dandelion and the Rockets, domestic violence, equality, Fawcett Society, feminist, flamenco, Hannah Tobias, Kill Bitches to Dress Foxes, leeway, Mindframe, misogyny, music, norwich, owl sanctuary, politics, punk, queer, Radioactive Rats, resistance, riot grrl, ROAR, solidarity, Spu Terrible and Puka Percussion, welfare cuts, women, Women's Refuge.

by Tim Forster

Content warning: mentions domestic violence and abuse.

As we know the Tories’ so-called austerity has been an attack on the working class — the economics of class war if you like —but cuts in public sector jobs, benefits and social services have hit women particularly hard.Continue Reading

FINE ART IN CÓRDOBA

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos, Andalusían, Andalusia, Antonio del Castillo, Arcangel San Rafael, art, art gallery, Baroque, bullfighter, Cante Jondo, Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Christian, City, cordoba, Falke Pisano, feminism, feminist, fine art, Jewish, La Copla, mathematics, Mezquita-Catedral, Monaña Negra, Museo Julio Romero De Torres, Nicoline Van Harskamp, Poemas de Córdoba, religion, religious, review, roman, sculpture, spain, visual art, warrior.

by Carmina Masoliver

The past few weeks I have been acquainting myself with the visual art that the city of Córdoba has to offer. These included the Museo de Bellas Artes de Córdoba, the Museo Julio Romero De Torres, and the Centro de Creación Contemporánea. Whilst there is still more to see, my wanderings gave me a varied picture of fine art in this part of Spain. 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

REVIEW: ROWENA KNIGHT’S ALL THE FOOTPRINTS I LEFT WERE RED

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, artivism, arts, book, Cadaverine, creative writing, Dorothy Parker, Enid Blyton, feminist, food, gender, humour, immigrant, language, Magma, metaphor, migration, New Zealand, personal, poetry, review, rhyme, Rialto, She Grrrowls, sound, teenage, terminal illness, vegetarian, woman, women, women poets, women writers, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

Rowena Knight has been making waves both in terms of poetry on the page (including Magma, Cadaverine and The Rialto) and on the stage, being a regular at poetry nights across London, as well as a team member of She Grrrowls. Self-identifying ‘Feminist Killjoy’, the collection deals with becoming a woman and growing up as an immigrant from New Zealand as a teenager.Continue Reading

REVIEW – EMILY HARRISON’S ‘I CAN’T SLEEP ‘CAUSE MY BED’S ON FIRE’

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, arts, BAR, book, Burn After Reading, Burning Eye Books, Carol Ann Duffy, characters, Chardonnay, class, collection, creative writing, critique, domestic violence, Emily Harrison, extrovert, feminism, feminist, gender, home, humour, interview, Jenn Hart, literature, Lolita, love, mental health, page, performance, poem, poet, poetry, Pulp, review, She Grrrowls, stage, TV, Vinnie Jones, women writers, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

I have seen Emily Harrison share her work countless times at Burn After Reading events, and at my own night, She Grrrowls. She never fails to amaze me in the way she is able to articulate herself, speaking out about mental health issues – amongst other subjects – interwoven with links to gender and class. When I read lines about imaging someone loves you ‘when you simply asked/during a routine blood test, ‘Emily, how are you doing today?’ I sort of imagine she’s what I would be like if I were an extrovert.

The first couple of poems are familiar to me, and it’s hard not to picture Harrison on stage delivering these words, because as much as it’s incredible to be able to read the pieces, seeing them live is an important part of the way the text works, as it tends to be with Burning Eye Books – the go-to publisher for writers who refuse to remain on one side of the page/stage divide.Continue Reading

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FERTILITY AS A FEMINIST ISSUE AT WOW FESTIVAL 2018

REVIEW: THE MISANDRISTS BY BRUCE LABRUCE

FEMINIST TOP PICKS – EDINBURGH FRINGE 2017: PART 3

ROAR: RAISING FUNDS FOR WOMEN’S REFUGES

FINE ART IN CÓRDOBA

RESISTANCE VOICES: THOSE WHO MARCHED FOR WOMEN

REVIEW: ROWENA KNIGHT’S ALL THE FOOTPRINTS I LEFT WERE RED

REVIEW – EMILY HARRISON’S ‘I CAN’T SLEEP ‘CAUSE MY BED’S ON FIRE’

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