BEING A MAN 2017: PART 2

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged addiction, Andrew Lovell, andrew mcmillan, BAM, bam festival, Being A Man, being a man festival, binary, body image, Cairo Nevitt, Christopher Green, Daniel Morri, domestic violence, feminism, festival, gender, Justin Hancok, Laura Dodsworth, M People, male suicide, masculinity, Mawaan Rizwan, men, mental health, metoo, mra, Naomi Wolf, Oliver O’Donohoe, patriarchy, Paul Burton, Placebo, Polari, sexual violence, sexuality, Sherren el Feki, southbank centre, Stefan Olsdal, suicide, Tomi Adegoke, Travis Albanza, violence.

by Carmina Masoliver

cw: mentions of rape and addiction

For this second part on the Being a Man (BAM) Festival, I’ll be looking at the various panels that addressed men’s body image, different kinds of addiction, and the concept of masculinity – looking beyond gender as something binary, and taking sexuality into account.Continue Reading

HOW FAR CAN FEMINISM GO IN ASIA?

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abortion rights, asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, Beijing, Benazir Bhutto, Burma, china, Chinese democracy, Democratic Progressive Party, East Asia, feminism, gender, Hassan Rouhani, Iran, Japan, Latin America, Margaret Atwood, Muslim, Naomi Wolf, Park Geun-hye, patriarchy, Saudi Arabia, science fiction, South Korea, Suffragette, Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, Ursula LeGuin, women's rights.

by Faizal Nor Izham

Over the past century women have made great strides towards gender equality in the Western world. From the Suffragette movement of the late 19th and early 20th century in Britain to the commonplace election of female MPs today, women’s rights in the West are increasingly becoming the norm. Feminism has even played a role in the world of science fiction, with prominent authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ursula LeGuin imagining hypothetical future societies in which gender barriers, and in some cases gender itself, have been removed completely for the betterment of the human race.Continue Reading

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