THE MORNING AFTER #GE2019

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 2019, austerity, basic income, Boris Johnson, Brexit, candidates, direct action, election day, elections, EU, featured, funding, GE, ge2019, general election, green new deal, Green Party, greens, human rights, Labour, manifesto, MP, NHS, our streets, Parliament, platform, policy, politics, PR, racism, resist, samaritans, self care, self-help, toriesout, Tory, transphobia, Universal Credit.

The Norwich Radical Editorial Team

By now you’ve seen the headlines. There’s no easy way to say this: in the coming months and years, many in this country and elsewhere will suffer under a Tory government led by a racist liar. Social services will be dismembered. Workers’ rights will be eroded. Vulnerable people will face violence at the hands of increasingly aggressive immigration authorities and police. All of which will be sanctioned, incited, and protected by the country’s highest authorities and institutions.Continue Reading

SUBJECTIVE TIME: HOW TO MASTER THE YEARS

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged capitalism, featured, focus, life, life expectancy, modernism, money, Mrs Dalloway, NHS, objective, postmodernism, power, reflection, Schiller, self care, self-help, Sonia Golani, subjective, time, Virginia Woolf.

by Sunetra Senior

Around this time of year, you’ll have witnessed a flood of articles that aggressively motivate you to increase your dwindling productivity and ‘get yourself back on’ the proverbial ‘track’. If you’re the Daily Mail, you might be delightedly telling people how average UK life expectancy has ground disastrously ‘to a halt.’ However, this obsession with life span and these generally flat, statistical measures of personal power are the real issue, and what I would argue even obscure the long-term, self-preservative solution.Continue Reading

YOU’RE HAVING A LAUGH

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged comedy, depression, eds, endorphin, featured, happy, joke, knowledge, laugh, laughter, medication, mental health, mental illness, news, parody, process, propaganda, satire, self care, spoof, wellbeing.

by Alice Thomson

Life is hard. For everyone. We’re all trying to find some meaning to our lives, trying to figure out where we belong and what our purpose is. Amongst that, we see what is going on the world, either connected to us or globally. Our environment can be tough to digest.

My last article was about the cuts the government is in the process of implementing to benefits for disabled people. I spent a lot of time researching the article and it really brought me down. I already knew it was a problem and needed to be spoken about, bknowledge,ut to learn the extent of the issue and read personal experiences, made me feel hopeless. The news can easily do that. Making it difficult, not only to take control and make positive changes to our environment, but to make those changes for ourselves. It’s a trick that’s as old as the book. Since the time people were able to establish a hierarchy, those on top kept everyone else in the dark to keep them in their place. Knowledge is power. Muddy the water of knowledge, and we disengage and disenfranchise the masses.Continue Reading

IGNITING STUDENT ACTIVISM #3 – WORKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged activism, burnout, call to action, campaign planning, campaigning, campaigns, change, commitment, conferences, deadlines, democracy, determination, direct action, divestment, Education Act 1994, email campaigns, empowerment, energy, fossil free, Fossil Free QUB, fossil fuels, future, future focus, goals, handover, health, Igniting Student Activism, justice, leafleting, local media, machinery of state, Margaret Mead, mental health, MPs, networking, petitions, politics, progress, protests, Queens' University Belfast, raising awareness, recruitment, research, sabbatical officers, sacrifice, self care, social justice, social media, state, strategy, student activism, student media, student union elections, students, students' unions, tactics, targeting, the good fight, training, universities, workshops, young people.

by Bradley Allsop & Calum Watt

Rarely in our lifetimes has there been a more exciting time for young people to engage in politics. Change is in the air and nowhere else offers more opportunities to engage in this conversation, to learn valuable skills and to help shape society than university campuses. This series of articles seeks to offer some guidance for those aiming to ignite student activism at their institutions. Drawing on our experiences as campaigners we hope to highlight some common challenges and give you some advice on how to combat them.

QUEER VISIBILITY – THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged biphobia, Community, homophobia, LGBT+, lgbt+ visibility, lgbt-phobia, lgbtQ+, LGBTQIA+, norfolk, norwich, Orlando, Orlando shooting, Perspectives, pulse nightclub, queer, queer visibility, self care, uk, visibility.

by Cherry Somersby

Content warning: mentions homophobia, homophobic violence

Anyone with a basic understanding of society will know that queer people encounter instances of homophobia on a daily basis. Seemingly removed from what many view as ‘real oppressions’, everyday instances of homophobia can be intensely draining, but ultimately the form they take is rarely an aggressive one. So why, then, does an act so apparently harmless as a prolonged stare or quiet whisper in the street, have the power to provoke so much fear? The answer is something I failed to realise until three days ago when I witnessed homophobic violence in my own city.Continue Reading

THANKS JEREMY, BUT I DON’T WANT YOUR SYMPATHY

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged austerity, conservatives, cuts, david cameron, domestic violence, Jeremy Hunt, Liberal Democrats, mental health, mental health awareness week, MHAW, MHAW16, NUS, politics, relationships, self care, sexual assault, stigma, student unions.

by Finn Northrop

Trigger warning: Rape, sexual assault and domestic violence

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and each year this presents a fantastic opportunity for huge numbers of committed activists to not only raise awareness of a variety of mental health conditions but also to promote self-care and self-help methods, and to give people the bravery to seek help – whether that means reaching out to close friends or taking to the step of going to their GPs and seeing what services are available to them.Continue Reading

FUCK SOCIETY

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, artivism, colour, creative, expectations, non binary artists, original art, pink, power, self care, self love, society, solidarity, tablet, woman.

by Asia Patel

SELF CARE: ADULT COLOURING BOOKS

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged anxiety, books, calm, care, colour, colouring books, coping, depression, gift, mental health, mindfulness, positivity, SAD, self care, visual arts.

by Jess Howard

TW: Suicide, self-harm, anxiety.

A year ago, hearing the words adult colouring books would have conjured up bizarre images of decorating mildly pornographic imagery with gel pens and coloured pencils. Fast forward to the end of 2015 and colouring books designed specifically for adults has become the new craze. From Harry Potter-themed books to those focused on the 1960s, almost everyone has encountered this new fad at some point. But where does it stem from, and does it really work?Continue Reading

A THOUGHT ON SELF CARE THIS WINTER

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged care, christmas, coursework, deadlines, essays, mental health, netflix, self care, stress, student, student life, UEA, university, weather, winter.

By Sam Naylor

The Christmas month has arrived. For some this realisation comes with a groan as materialism and capitalism grips the nation tightly, churning out ‘heartfelt’ Christmas adverts for supermarkets and the repetitive spew of songs from Christmas pasts. Though I am guilty of a deep-rooted love for the festive period, where family and friends merge in the winter landscape. December is also the month for many University students where deadlines loom overhead, either intensifying the stressed-out mentality or acting as a dampener to the winter wonderland. The juggling act to keep all the tasks moving smoothly begins to experience shakes and wobbles. Now I’m not saying that being a student in the UK is the hardest life (though the scraping of maintenance grants and proposed change to nursing and midwifery tuition payments will certainly make matters much worse), but it isn’t just Netflix and takeaways either.

WHEN RESPECT GETS PREJUDICED

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, app, control, Damon Young, drop out, feminism, Greg Savage, job, lateness, mental health, neo-liberalism, self care, study, studying, time, timing, university, women, women writing, work.

by Robyn Banks

Last year, I dropped out of uni. My life was falling apart around me, I’d run out of new excuses for extension requests on my assignments, I was failing to meet any of my responsibilities. My finances were in chaos, I wasn’t eating and I was totally failing to prioritise by continually allowing my grades and self care to slip in order to meet my obligations to other people, which I was barely doing anyway. I was always late, I couldn’t sleep, I managed to check my emails about once a month and consequently fell further and further out of the loop. I pushed my friends away, clawed them back, worried they all hated me and yapped on and on about just how irrevocably miserable I was. I was afraid of my lecturers, assuming they all had some kind of report card about me in their heads in which they totted up all of the missed classes, late assignments, and failings on my part and were sure to judge me for it. I became so depressed I couldn’t get out of bed, so I asked if I could drop out and try the year again in September.

self care

THE MORNING AFTER #GE2019

SUBJECTIVE TIME: HOW TO MASTER THE YEARS

YOU’RE HAVING A LAUGH

QUEER VISIBILITY – THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE

THANKS JEREMY, BUT I DON’T WANT YOUR SYMPATHY

FUCK SOCIETY

SELF CARE: ADULT COLOURING BOOKS

A THOUGHT ON SELF CARE THIS WINTER

WHEN RESPECT GETS PREJUDICED

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