FEMINIST TOP PICKS – EDINBURGH FRINGE 2017

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Anxiety & Animal GIFS, art, Athena Kugblenu, brutal cessation, capitalism, domestic violence, drama, edfringe17, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, edinburgh fringe festival, Elsa, evil, feminism, feminist top picks, festival, Galpals, glass ceiling, Gracefool Collective, Hannah Chutzpah, heterosexual, Hostel, How to be Good at Everything, Isobel Rogers, Jane Doe, Katherine Ferns In Stitches, KMT, Melanie Branton, milly thomas, money, My Cloth-Eared Heart, Next Best Thing, Pamela DeMenthe, paula varjack, performance art, physical, play, poet, poetry, power, Rachelle Elie, relationships, review, robot, role reversal, salarys, She Grrrowls, Shit! I'm in Love with You Again, show me the money, socialism, Sticky Digits, storytelling, struggling artist, theatre, this really is too much, violence.

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CAN WE CALL IT LOVE?

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Donald Trump, heterosexual, love, monogamy, non-con, omgyes, pagan, personal, Perspectives, promiscuity, romance, sex, sex sells, slut shaming, stigma, valentine's day.

by Alice Thomson

(Content warning: mention of sexual assault)

I’m sure you’ve all noticed the Valentine’s Day gifts and cards that seem to be everywhere at the moment. Like Christmas, it’s almost impossible to avoid. When I got outside I can barely move for all the soppy rom-coms, chocolates and flowers that are being bandied about. And all of them carry connotations of sex.

LONE-WOLVES AND STATE WARRIORS

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged another angry voice, bicuriosity, Bill O'Reilly, britain first, church, daesh, drug abuse, equal marriage, gun, gun control, heterosexist, heterosexual, homelessness, homophobia, individualism, islamophobia, Jo Cox, left wing, LGBT+, liberal, lone wolf, lone wolves, marriage, media, mental health, monogamy, murdoch, Muslim, Orlando, Orlando shooting, Owen Jones, queer, race, religion, right wing, same sex, scapegoating, sex work, sexuality, state, suicide, xenophobia.

by Joshua Ekin

Content warning: mentions suicide, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, mass shooting, murder

A massacre in an LGBT+ space, by a Muslim, with a legal gun, and alleged connections to Daesh. It’s easy to see how contemporary American anxieties converge in the political aftermath of the Orlando shooting. The media response to this — the largest massacre in modern American history — exposes how truth is controlled by the present political regime.

For those who do not spend their days fretting about radical social discourse, homophobia can be difficult to define. Before Obama legalised same-sex marriage federally, it dominated the media conversation, establishing rights as the fulcrum of group empowerment. While the LGBT+ movement focused on this, statistics revealed that LGBT+ kids across the world were entering sex-work and committing suicide at an alarming rate. If such statistics were ever mentioned, it was to bolster marriage as the unequivocal endowment being denied to the LGBT+ community. The institution Australian Marriage Equality claims that the ‘higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness, early school leaving, conflict with peers and parents and suicide ideation [are] all directly related to the discrimination.’ Marx might have called this ‘bridal false-consciousness.’Continue Reading

WE’RE HERE. WE’RE QUEER. AND WE MATTER: THE HIDDEN FACE OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anti-Muslim, Bathroom Bill, cisgender, colourblind, disabled, equality, erasure, gay nightclub, genderblind, hate crime, hate crimes, heterosexual, homophobia, identity, intersectionality, Islam, Latinx, lgbt, lgbtQ+, media, mental health, Muslim, National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, NCAVP, New Orleans, non-binary, oppression, Orlando, Orlando shooting, Owen Jones, people of colour, POC, privilege, Pulse, queer, racism, religion, Sky News, suicide, terrorism, tolerance, Upstairs Lounge, US, US congress, western society, women.

by Julian Ignacio Canlas

Content warning: mentions racism, homophobia, suicide, arson, massacre, mental health

On June 12^th 2016, a mass shooting happened at Pulse, gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, USA. 49 people were killed and 52 injured, mostly of Latinx descent. Across the world, lgbtQ+ communities and allies have been organising vigils and other events to express support and condolences.

‘Look, you don’t understand this because you’re not gay,’ Owen Jones said, before storming out of a Sky News debate on the massacre, after the two presenters refused to see the incident in a lgbtQ+ context.Continue Reading

THE ELF OF SEXUAL DISCOVERY

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged academix environment, adventure time, asexual, bisexual, cartoon network, censorship, children, curriculum, demisexual, education, GLAAD, heterosexual, identity, Marceline, media, netflix, network responsibility index, Perspectives, Princess Bubblegum, queer, queer education, queer representation, queer youth, representation, school curriculum, sexual identity, sexuality, Steven Universe.

by Paige Selby-Green

It’s not just the Netflix account that has parental controls. Life itself comes riddled with rules about what’s appropriate for children. Considering how important childhood is to the person they will grow up to be, it’s understandable that we want to shield them from any negative influences. It’s unfortunate then that this well-meaning idea of childhood censorship also includes queerness as being among topics that are ‘too adult’ for children to know about. This censorship of queerness hurts more than it helps, leading to lots of confused teens and twenty-somethings who are still figuring out their identities thanks to childhoods where the only kind of relationships they were exposed to were heterosexual ones.

BEING BISEXUAL AND GENDERQUEER IN A ‘HETEROSEXUAL’ AND ‘CISGENDERED’ RELATIONSHIP

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged biphobia, bisexual, cisgender, coming out, gender, genderqueer, heterosexual, homosexual, LGBT+, masculinity, queer, relationship, sexuality, societal construct, stereotypes.

by Chris Jarvis

In one form or another, I have been ‘out’ for about eight or nine years. Obviously the concept of being ‘out’ is far more nuanced than a simple one stage event, act or process. The reality is of course much, much more complicated. Each time you meet a new person, each time you move to a new town, each time you start a new job that process has to start again, from the beginning.

Coming out is never an enjoyable experience for me, no matter how many times I have to do it. Throughout my life, there have been few things that have terrified me more than coming out to new people. I am not yet actively or consciously come out to my parents, despite now being 23. So much of the time it seems much easier to sit in silence and not rock the boat rather being upfront with the truth, even if that truth forms an important, albeit not defining, part of my identity. Why would I choose to risk potential isolation and victimisation when things could sit so much more comfortably in ignorance?Continue Reading

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FEMINIST TOP PICKS – EDINBURGH FRINGE 2017

CAN WE CALL IT LOVE?

LONE-WOLVES AND STATE WARRIORS

WE’RE HERE. WE’RE QUEER. AND WE MATTER: THE HIDDEN FACE OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

THE ELF OF SEXUAL DISCOVERY

BEING BISEXUAL AND GENDERQUEER IN A ‘HETEROSEXUAL’ AND ‘CISGENDERED’ RELATIONSHIP

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