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Posted on January 27, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AOC, Casey Explosion, Chuck Tingle, Contrapoints, Dan Olson, defunding, Donkey Kong, Ellen Murray, featured, fundraiser, funds, Graham Linehan, Grant Kirkhope, Harry Brewis, hbomberguy, Jim Sterling, John Romero, lottery, Lyndsay Ellis, Mara Wilson, Mermaids, Natalye Wynn, Oliver Thorn, press, Rebecca Hineman, Scotland, stream, Susie Green, terfs, trans, trans rights, videogames, Youtube.

by Zoe Harding

This is the face of a man who’s entirely unsure if what he’s experiencing is real.

It started with this. Well, okay, it started with this, which itself was just the latest flex of the UK’s weirdly obsessive and powerful transphobia lobby, personified by eh-alright-but-his-work-is-aging-fast comedy writer Graham Linehan. Plenty of people were annoyed or upset by the campaign of email-writing and general loud airing of concerns that led to the National Lottery pulling £500,000 worth of funding from Mermaids, especially given that the reporting of the issue in the Great British Press was… kinda shite.Continue Reading

THE RIGHT TO QUALITY OF LIFE: WHY A NORWICH GRANDMA SHAVING HER HEAD

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged access, activism, Anne Dupon, charity, Community, crowdfunding, differently abled, disability, electric mobility scooter, electric wheelchair, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, FND, forum norwich, fundraiser, fundraising, grandmother, head shave, independence, justgiving, ME, norfolk, norwich, norwich grandma, quality of life, reid manson, shave hair, shaved head, The Big Local, wheelchair.

by Laura Aghassi and Lisa Mikaiel

A 76 years young Norwich Grandma is aiming to raise enough money to purchase an electric wheelchair for Reid Manson, by having her hair shaved off. The event is taking place at the Forum on Saturday 18^th June at 2 pm.

Anne Dupon, a Norwich Grandma was moved by the story of Reid, a young man in her local community, whom she met through her involvement in The Big Local (a lottery funded community project). Reid suffers from several debilitating conditions. He has epilepsy, fibromyalgia, M.E. (Myalgic Encephalopathy) and FND (Functional Neurological Disorder). The FND has left him with left sided weakness and leg paralysis, equivalent to having had a stroke.Continue Reading

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