REVIEW: WOW FESTIVAL 2016, PART 1

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #everydaysexism, #SayHerName, #WOWLDN, art, arts, BAM, Charlie Condou, equality, feminism, feminist, festival, gender, international womens day, intersectionality, IWD, iwd2016, Jake Mills, Jude Kelly, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Laura Bates, MAKERS, mansplain, Maya Angelou, media, Michael Kimmel, MSM, NHS, Pat Mitchell, rape, sexism, southbank, violence, women, women of the world festival, wow.

by Carmina Masoliver

I have been going to Women Of the World festival at Southbank’s Royal festival Hall for years on my own. I sometimes feel tentative about talking about women’s rights with friends and family unless I know for sure someone will be on board. This has worked well it seems, as gradually, and through being vocal online instead, more and more friends have become interested in finding out more. This was the first year that I brought a friend along one day, and a family member (Feminist Gran).

I believe I could also do something different to get more friends on board, especially those who have been curious in the past, but remained relatively untouched by my ranting. In this piece, split into two parts to accommodate the weekend events, I will review and discuss some of my personal highlights of the festival, with the intention of raising more awareness and showing what WOW is about.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?

I’M A WOMAN: MAYA ANGELOU (1928-2014)

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged activist, arts, black women, Maya Angelou, obituary, poem, poetry, women, women writers, writer.

by Cadi Cliff.

‘I’m a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
That’s me.’
Phenomenal Woman (1978)

On May 28^th the voice of the six-foot-tall 86 year old, Maya Angelou, hailed as a Renaissance woman and one of the great voices of contemporary literature, fell silent. With a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, she’s most famous as a writer, essayist, playwright, poet and civil-rights activist – she was, and will continue to be, formidable. Continue Reading

Maya Angelou

REVIEW: WOW FESTIVAL 2016, PART 1

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

I’M A WOMAN: MAYA ANGELOU (1928-2014)

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