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

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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

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