YOUNG GERMANS AND URBAN GLORIFICATION

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged AAVE, appropriation, art, ball, berlin, bigot, Brexit, City, commodification, demand, drag, exoticism, fetish, fetishisation, gender, gentrification, germany, globalisation, housing, housing crisis, identity, intersectionality, landlord, lease, lgbtQ+, liberalism, london, neocolonialism, QTBPOC, queer, race, racism, rent, renting, safe spaces, self-congratulatory, spaces, urban, West, young, Zoopla.

by Candice Nembhard

In recent years the discussion of gentrification and globalisation has become almost unavoidable – and for the most part, these terms have now been resigned as popular buzzwords in pseudo-intellectual conversations. As glib as this may sound, I shall do my best to explain.

While many a piece has been written on this subject, this is in fact not my primary focus. My intention is not to deny the lived and consequential reality of western mobilisation, but rather look towards the supporters and benefactors of this growing socio-economic practice. In particular, a generation of young people who are forgoing academic careers in favour of acquired/inherited wealth and personal development. More specifically, I will focus on my experience in post-Brexit Germany.Continue Reading

THE NIGHT TIME STROLL HOME FOR A WOMAN

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged darkness, educate, escape, external, fear, feminism, fetish, Kitestring App, liberation, lone walking, men, patriarchy, protection, rape, reclaim the night, self-defense, sexual assault, sexualised behaviour, walk home, women, womens liberation.

by Nicholl Hardwick

Content warning: this article mentions sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape.

Here is a little snippet of the continuous thoughts and actions that are applicable to many women when walking alone as the night begins to descend.

Multiple checks over her shoulder.
Trying to cover up and make your self look as undesirable as possible (pulling down top, head down, arms covering torso).
Weapon ready in hand (Keys slipped between enclosed fist, rape alarm, pepper spray etc.).
Analysing what the quickest escape route is (Your mind works like a ninja e.g. what is the quickest way to exit the park? THROUGH THE TREES!)
Being ultra responsive to sound (the snap of a twig = RUN YOU FOOL)
The old ‘I’m talking on my phone so you can’t attack me’ trick, when in reality your phone died two hours ago.
The ability to power walk like a trouper — thighs of steel — the quicker you get home the sooner you can stop shitting yourself that you’re not going to make it.
The avoidance of headphones — If you’ve got Bey on full blast then you ain’t gonna hear the footsteps!
The ability for women to have extensive knowledge of all ‘well lit’ routes in their area — THERE MUST BE LIGHT OTHERWISE IT’S MY FAULT — our minds work like twisted Satnavs.
The continuous regret that you didn’t just save money and get a taxi.

THE INHERENTLY RADICAL IDENTITY OF MULTICULTURALISM

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arts, assimilation, BAME, barack obama, Beyonce, BME, daily mail, discourse, discrimination, Donald Trump, ethnic, fetish, identity, Ijeoma Umebinyuo, institutional racism, integration, Islam, israel, JayZ, Labour, malia bouattia, Mayor of London, minorities, multiulturalism, Muslims for Trump, NUS, oppression, palestine, Piers Morgan, politics, prevent, race, racism, radical, religion, sadiq khan, sensationalism, student politics, students, West, white privilege, Zac Goldsmith.

by Julian Canlas

‘You are not alive to please the aesthetic of colonized eyes’
– Ijeoma Umebinyuo

An interesting thing happens when fully-assimilated BME in the West engage in politics, whilst retaining and proudly displaying their multicultural and racial identities as minorities—they become characterised as ‘radical’ and disruptive to the everyday function of society. Here are examples of how various politicking non-white figures have been portrayed:

Prior to Sadiq Khan becoming mayor of London on May 2016, Khan suffered from smear attacks by Zac Goldsmith. Goldsmith’s attacks included ‘Sadiq Khan won’t stand up for London’s Tamil community’ and ‘his party supports a wealth tax on family jewellery,’ with the latter based upon the uncomfortable, racist assumption that this taxation is a defining political issue for South Asians. Goldsmith also branded Khan as a ‘radical,’ belonging to ‘a Labour party that thinks terrorists is its friends’.
The newly-elected first Black Muslim president of the NUS, Malia Bouattia, depicted as an ISIS supporter for having been against a 2011 motion condemning ISIS, because of its apparent wording that demonises all Muslims, despite later supporting a revised version condemning ISIS and Islamophobia. She has also been criticised as anti-Semitic despite publicly declaring her stance as anti-Zionist due to Israel’s continued violation of human rights by its continued military occupation of Palestine.

KYLIE JENNER’S WHEELCHAIR PHOTOSHOOT

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged accessory, art, art gallery, art history, artist, BDSM, body, Daniella Sheypuk, disability, discrimination, fashion, female body, fetish, Kylie Jenner, media, medium, nudity, photography, representation, sex, Steven Klein, wheelchair, women.

by Jess Howard

The Kardashian/Jenner family are rarely far from the press. From Caitlyn Jenner’s sensational Vanity Fair cover early this year, to the recent birth of Saint West, they are seldom out of the news. Recently, it has been model and the youngest of the Kardashian sisters, Kylie Jenner, who has been in the limelight.

Causing controversy by taking part in a photoshoot in which she posed passive and sexually in a gold wheelchair, Jenner’s photoshoot, directed by photographer Steven Klein, and accompanying interview, were part of a feature in Interview magazine, and it is explicitly clear why the internet has reacted in such a passionate and infuriated way. Continue Reading

“WHEN’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH?” AND THE IDENTITY OF ‘BLACK’

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Beyonce, BHM, bisexuality, black, black history, black history month, BME, colonialism, colourism, Eurocentrism, fetish, identity, intersectionality, Lauryn Hill, LGBT+, liberation, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, misogynoir, oppression, POC, politics, power dynamics, race, racism, Serena Williams, sex worker, white privilege.

by Emmanuel Agu

Let’s face it, the history we are exposed to in this state is white-oriented, Eurocentric and frequently glamourizes the power and history of Britain’s Imperialism. School curriculum’s explain theorems, recount stories and literature of white heroes, white professors and white creatives. Our history museums and art establishments are filled to the brim of treasures looted from Africa and Asia that continue to remain in our state for claims of ‘greater accessibility’ for the rest of the world– Infact even within the castle of our Monarch sits the remains of buried princes forcibly taken from their homes. In the supremacist society we live in- white history is celebrated and panegyrized daily, don’t be so ignorant as to ask for your time of remembrance when society does not exclude you.

Black history month exists in defiance of the structures that chose to exclude those that supremacy excludes- but one must, ask what does it mean to be black?

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YOUNG GERMANS AND URBAN GLORIFICATION

THE NIGHT TIME STROLL HOME FOR A WOMAN

THE INHERENTLY RADICAL IDENTITY OF MULTICULTURALISM

KYLIE JENNER’S WHEELCHAIR PHOTOSHOOT

“WHEN’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH?” AND THE IDENTITY OF ‘BLACK’

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