ACADEMIC FREEDOM OR INSTITUTIONALISED TRANSPHOBIA?

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged academia, academics, featured, gender, glinner, HE, identity, John Collins, letter, nb, Never OK, non-binary, response, rupert read, sex, Stonewall, student unions, SU, terf, trans, transphobes, transphobia, UEA.

By Robyn Banks

Once again, an array of academics have signed a letter complaining about the increased efforts by universities to recognise and support Trans* and Non-Binary students on their campuses. Their reasons for doing so aren’t worth exploring, as they are based on the same logic, or lack thereof, as many transphobes about the realities of gender, sex and identity. The problem we should focus on is that the academics who have signed this letter, and the ones before it, hide behind the claim of ‘Academic Freedom’ in order to try and justify their views.Continue Reading

50 YEARS – HOW FAR HAVE WE REALLY COME?

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged Against The Law, bbc, capital, crime, decriminalisation of homosexuality, discrimination, gay capital, gay men, gay privilege, gay rights, hate crime, homophobia, inclusivity, LGBT+, lgbt+ rights, Marianna Valverde, media, media bias, misrepresentation, oppression, Owen Jones, Peckham, population, positivity, privilege, Richard Taulke-Johnson, sensationalism, sex, Sexual Offences Act, statistics, Stonewall, The Guardian, uk, universities, yougov, young people.

by Alex Powell

CW: mentions homophobia and homophobic abuse

Last week marked 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act 1967 entered into law, in the first step towards the decriminalisation of homosexuality. There’s been a great deal of coverage of this milestone in British media, including some brilliant, informative TV programming (I highly recommend the BBC’s drama ‘Against the Law’). But it is Owen Jones’s recent Guardian column ‘Hatred of LGBTQ people still infects society. It’s no time to celebrate’ that seems to have been most prominent. Jones’ arguments are certainly justified, but commentary like his risks misrepresenting the situation that now faces LGBT+ people in this country. It’s not all bad.

PETER TATCHELL, LEFT UNITY AND OTHER DINOSAURS

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged censorship, female eunuch, feminism, germaine greer, Islamaphobia, julie bindel, LGBT+, LGBTQIA+, McCarthy, mccarthyism, no platform, Peter Tatchell, prevent, progressive politics, sectarian, spiked, Stonewall, trans.

by Robyn Banks

Once upon a time, there was a period in history when everyone on the left was in agreement. In this time of solidarity many campaigns were fought and won and nobody within the movement felt excluded. The boundaries of race, gender and class were broken down, sectarianism was a distant memory and everybody held hands and formed the party of the glorious left.

Stonewall

ACADEMIC FREEDOM OR INSTITUTIONALISED TRANSPHOBIA?

50 YEARS – HOW FAR HAVE WE REALLY COME?

PETER TATCHELL, LEFT UNITY AND OTHER DINOSAURS

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