LOVE, HONOUR AND FOREPLAY – LAUREN KAYE’S I’M ALL IN, FIVE YEARS ON

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged book review, comedy, empowerment, fantasy, featured, female pleasure, gender, Hey Arnold, I'm All In, Lauren Kaye, live poetry, love, lyrics, marriage, non-monogamy, patriarchy, performance poetry, poetry, R&B, relationships, romance, sex.

By Carmina Masoliver

August saw the five-year anniversary of Lauren Kaye’s ‘I’m All In’, a poetry collection described as a ‘seductive collection of romantic and sensual poems that speak on the inevitable episodes of love, sex and relationships’. The occasion was marked on social media – at a time where artists are forced to be more resourceful than ever when the stage is taken away. As Kaye outlines in the introduction, her poetry ‘is written much how I speak’, and it is best to have seen her live or see live videos so you can then hear her voice as you read coming through the pages.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY “DEBATE” IN AUSTRALIA

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Australia, australian bureau of statistics, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Greens, Australian Labour Party, australian politics, bestiality, civil union, electoral roll, equal marriage, expats, gay, Green Party, high court, homosexuality, indigenous, IVF, john howard, journalism, LGBT+, lgbtq, LGBTQI, liberal party, malcom turnbull, marriage, marriage act, marriage equality, marriage rebels, plebiscite, politics, postal ballot, postal plebiscite, postal vote, Queensland, referendum, rural, same sex, same sex parents, South Australia, stolen generation, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, tasmania, Tony Abbot, University of Melbourne, western australia, young voters.

by Laura Evans

Content warning: this article mentions homophobia

It’s been quite a week in Australian politics. You might have heard that the Turnbull government (a coalition of the centre-right Liberal Party and slightly further-right-but-mostly-rural National Party) have been debating marriage equality and have launched something called a postal-plebiscite. To understand why this is a Big Complicated Deal, we have to go back to 2004.Continue Reading

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

BE MY ROCK? TRACEY EMIN AND THE OBJECTUM-SEXUAL COMMUNITY

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged artist, awareness, Bridget Jones, Bridget Jones' Diary, discrimination, feelings, Gaby Hinsliff, Helen Fielding, heterocentrism, marriage, Married to the Eiffel Tower, media, MSM, My Bed, objectum sexual, OS, performance artist, press, publicity, romance, sexual orientation, sexuality, single women, stereotypes, stunt, Tracey Emin, visibility, wedding.

by Jess Howard

This week Tracey Emin – creator of the infamous My Bed piece – announced that she had married a rock. The press, understandably, reacted vehemently, with many rolling their eyes at Emin’s well-known performance artist ways, or mocking her for doing something so seemingly comical. What the press have failed to discuss is what Emin’s recent marriage, and the backlash she has received, has done for people who identify as objectum sexual.Continue Reading

BORDERLINES – OH, I DON’T MEAN YOU

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Borderlines, Inter|national and tagged bicultural, biculturalism, Borderlines, Glasgow, Govanhill, green card, HE, higher education, housing, ILR, immigrant communities, immigration, landlords, marriage, migrant, migration, phD, UKBA, UKBF, university, US.

Borderlines is a collection of thought pieces, some creative, some direct accounts, some memoirs, all true. Borderlines collects stories from people who are not fleeing from one country to another, but rather chose to move, or were made to do so by a series of non-threatening circumstances. In these stories there is anger, hope, disappointment, joy, fear, optimism. They are all different, and yet all striking in their approach to the subject matter.

Borderlines aims to show the reality of migration, and how we are all, in our own way, migrants.Continue Reading

‘MY CHOICE’ AND WHETHER IT IS A BURDEN TO US ALL

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged abortion, domestic abuse, education, exploitation, female foeticide, feminism, feminist, film, gender, health, Homi Adajania, India, intersectionality, kyriarchy, laxmi Narayan Tripathi, marriage, my choice, patni-vrata, poverty, Sanjuka Basu, se, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, transgender, transgender rights activist, video, vogue, vogue india, women.

by Srishti Dutta Chowdhury

Disclaimer: Mentions female foeticide, abortion, and domestic abuse.

As part of the Vogue Empower project, that was initiated in October 2014, to commemorate the seventh year for Vogue in India, Homi Adajania’s video ‘My Choice’ features some prominent faces in the country of India. Besides Deepika Padukone, there’s Adjania’s wife, actress Nimrat Kaur, film critic Anupama Chopra, and Director Zoya Akhtar, among others.

The video went viral on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, in a matter of days — which is great news except it garnered negative criticisms everywhere. The reservation against the video by feminists and gender activists is understandable. According to a large number, while the video seeks to raise questions such as ‘If men can do what they want, why should women be deprived of the same right?’, it falls short of effectively addressing the question of women empowerment.

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LOVE, HONOUR AND FOREPLAY – LAUREN KAYE’S I’M ALL IN, FIVE YEARS ON

By Carmina Masoliver

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY “DEBATE” IN AUSTRALIA

LONE-WOLVES AND STATE WARRIORS

BE MY ROCK? TRACEY EMIN AND THE OBJECTUM-SEXUAL COMMUNITY

BORDERLINES – OH, I DON’T MEAN YOU

‘MY CHOICE’ AND WHETHER IT IS A BURDEN TO US ALL

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