MADE BY SEA AND WOOD, IN DARKNESS BY ALEXANDROS PLASATIS – REVIEW

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged abuse, Alexandros Plasatis, anthropology, consent, Egypt, featured, Greece, homophobia, humour, Kavala, literature, Made by Sea and Wood in Darkness, migration, misogyny, novel, police, review, sex, sexual hara, sexual violence, surrealism, trans, translation, violence, xenophobia.

By Carmina Masoliver

Content warning: references to and short descriptions of sexual harassment, sexual violence, xenophobia, homophobic & transphobic abuse.

Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness, the debut novel by Alexandros Plasatis, weaves together a collage of stories that tell the experience of Egyptian immigrants in Greece through a variety of voices. The stories are primarily set in and around Café Papaya in Kavala, where Pavlo the waiter works nights, acting as both a main character and an observer of the Egyptian fishermen. In snapshots of a male underworld, violence dominates this narrative, as the central female character Angie the barmaid fights against being cast as a victim.

I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE REVIEW

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged arsenal pulp, art, book, care, consent, David Ng, essays, featured, gender, hope, indigenous, justice, Kai Cheng Thom, Khelsilem, massy books, Musqueam, poetry, qtpoc, queer, radical, review, Squamish, trans, Tsleil-Waututh, vancouver, writing.

by Alex Valente

Content warning: suicide

On the evening of Friday, 18^th October 2019, I attended Massy Books launch of Kai Cheng Thom’s latest book I Hope We Choose Love – A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, a collection of non-fiction and short poetic pieces that together form a net of radical hope-building for a time – and it has been a long time, as rightly noted in the introduction – when all hope seems lost. I follow Kai Cheng’s work online already, but I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the event. I’m glad to say I’m still not entirely sure what happened.Continue Reading

KISS MY GENDERS REVIEW

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, Carmina Masoliver, drag, featured, gallery, gender, hayward gallery, kiss my genders, non binary artists, non-binary, review, trans.

by Carmina Masoliver

The existence of the gender spectrum beyond the simple male/female binary is now more visible in mainstream media and popular culture than ever before. And whilst life for non-binary and trans folks is still difficult, even dangerous, there seems to be more cultural awareness (if not sensitivity) about various trans identities within cis circles. In the Hayward Gallery’s Kiss My Genders exhibition, this visibility of the gender spectrum takes centre stage.

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

TRANS WOODSTOCK

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AOC, Casey Explosion, Chuck Tingle, Contrapoints, Dan Olson, defunding, Donkey Kong, Ellen Murray, featured, fundraiser, funds, Graham Linehan, Grant Kirkhope, Harry Brewis, hbomberguy, Jim Sterling, John Romero, lottery, Lyndsay Ellis, Mara Wilson, Mermaids, Natalye Wynn, Oliver Thorn, press, Rebecca Hineman, Scotland, stream, Susie Green, terfs, trans, trans rights, videogames, Youtube.

by Zoe Harding

This is the face of a man who’s entirely unsure if what he’s experiencing is real.

It started with this. Well, okay, it started with this, which itself was just the latest flex of the UK’s weirdly obsessive and powerful transphobia lobby, personified by eh-alright-but-his-work-is-aging-fast comedy writer Graham Linehan. Plenty of people were annoyed or upset by the campaign of email-writing and general loud airing of concerns that led to the National Lottery pulling £500,000 worth of funding from Mermaids, especially given that the reporting of the issue in the Great British Press was… kinda shite.Continue Reading

THE CALL FOR MEASURED DEBATE ON GRA IS DISINGENUOUS

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, debate, discrimination, Equality Act, FairPlayforWomen, fear, featured, femininity, feminism, free speech, gender recogniton act, GRA, Graham Linehan, identity, LGBT+, LGBTQIA+, migration, online, propaganda, terf, trans, transgender, woman, Women's Place.

by Lee-Anne Lawrance

CW: transphobia

As we approach the (extended) close of the consultation to the reform of the Gender Recognition Act, one group of activists is calling for a calm and rational debate – or in their words, a ‘respectful and evidence-based discussion’.

The current debate has been dominated by a group of so-called ‘feminists’ and supporters who oppose the changes, citing ‘concerns’ for women. The concerns they raise however are based on false information. Nothing short of propaganda is used to disseminate this false information to the wider public. Continue Reading

BEYOND THE BINARY // A CALL FOR NON-BINARY IDENTITIES

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Alok Vaid-Menon, awareness, Bear Bergman, Beyond the Binary, binary, Caitlyn Jenner, Cordelia Fines, Delusions of Gender, feminism, gender, Gender Outlaw, Gender Trouble, Ian Harvie, Judith Butler, Kate Bornstein, laverne cox, non-binary, Nonbinary Inclusion Project, patriarchy, pride, trans, visibility.

by Julian Canlas

In October 2015, South Asian trans performer and activist Alok Vaid-Menon called for more visibility of folx that do not fit the man/woman binary. While various media outlets proclaim that we are at a ‘transgender tipping point’, an unprecedented period of visibility for trans-people, Vaid-Menon argues that those non-conforming don’t necessarily reap the benefits of this time. After all, this tipping point revolves around trans-celebrities such as Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox and Ian Harvie, who visibly fit into the archetypal aesthetics of either manhood, or womanhood.Continue Reading

REVIEW – TRANSGENDER KIDS: WHO KNOWS BEST?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged bbc, blockers, CAMH, Cheri DiNovo, child psychology, doctors, documentary, gender dysphoria, gender-positive, genderqueer, Herschel, homosexuality, hormones, horror, Hospital, Ken Zucker, LGBT+, media, medical, mental health, mental illness, NHS, non conforming, non-binary, parents, review, sexual reassignment surgery, suicide, television, theory, trans, trans activism, transgender, Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?, transition, TV.

by Zoe Harding

On the same night Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? aired (Thursday 12th), an apparently rather excellent documentary named Hospital exposed the difficult conditions under which the modern NHS works, bringing it to the attention of the nation that if you get sick and go to an NHS hospital, you’ll be treated by a doctor who’s working shifts more commonly seen in 19th-century coal mines while the Prime Minister calls them lazy. It was quite good. The subjects of Hospital (doctors) seem to have loved it. No such luck for the subjects of BBC2’s other documentary that night, however. Continue Reading

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged #noDAPL, #readwomen, #shakespeare400, #standwithJNU, 2016, academies, Amelia Womack, articles, arts, Australia, BDS, Beyonce, biomass, black lives matter, BLM, Brazil, Brexit, canada, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, Colombia, comics, Community, conference, cricket, cuba, david bowie, divestment, easter rising, editorial, education, empire, Ende Gelände, energy, erik petersen, EU ref, feminism, football, fossil free, France, gender, Green Party, hate crime, HE, Heathtrow 13, housing, India, international, iraq, israel, Italy, IWD, JNU, Jonathan Bartley, journalism, Leave, LEMONADE, LGBTQIA+, malia bouattia, Marina Prentoulis, meantal health, media, mental health, migration, mischief brew, music, national, Nigeria, norfolk, Norway, norwich, Norwich Radical, NUS, owl sanctuary, Panama Papers, people and planet, Perspectives, Peter Tatchell, poetry, PokemonGO, politics, punk, queer, racism, radical, reclaim the power, refuge, refugee, refugees, Remain, representation, resist, review, round up, SAAC, sadiq khan, school, sexuality, Standing Rock, student, student movement, Syria, the gambia, the Philippines, trans, translation, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, US, US presidential election, violence, visibility, War of Words, whitewashing, wrestlemania, writing, year in review, Zambia.

by The Norwich Radical

2016 was a bleak year for many. Across the world, the forces of liberty, of social progress, and of environmental justice lost time and again in the face of rising fascism, increased alienation, and intensifying conflict. That notwithstanding, there have been moments of light. In the Austrian Presidential election, the electorate confirmed the independently Green candidate Alexander van der Bellen; the #noDAPL water protectors gained a soft victory in early December; in fact, there is a full list of positives from the past year, if you want cheering up.

2016 saw our team expand to more than 25 writers, editors, and artists as well as host our first ever progressive media conference, War of Words. Our readership has grown from 5,000 per month to more than 6,500 per month. In total, nearly 80,000 people have read content on The Norwich Radical website this year.

In 2017, The Norwich Radical will turn three years old, with plans to grow our team and publication more than ever before. We’ll also be returning to Norwich to bring debate and discussion on the future of the media, with War of Words back for a second year. Continue Reading

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: THE BOSS AND BATHROOMS

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged American Airlines, anti-discrimination legisaltion, Apple, Bank of America, bathroom bills, Bruce Springstein, discrimination, Donald Trump, gender, gender politics, gender-identity, Google, legislation, Marriott Hotels, NBA, NCAA, North Carolina, Paypal, Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, sexual assault, sexual harassment, ted cruz, Tennessee, The Boss, trans, trans rights, transgender, transphobia, US, US presidential election, USA, Wisconsin, women, Xhamster.

(Trigger warnings: Transphobia)

by Zoe Harding

You wonder where the hell they find these people sometimes.

Two weeks ago, one of the Tennessee state lawmakers pushing an anti-transgender rights ‘Bathroom Bill’ through their state legislature was exiled from his offices and denied access to several other areas of the legislative building on the grounds that he posed ‘a continuing risk to unsuspecting women who are employed by or interact with the legislature.’ Last year, former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters that he wished he’d been able to pretend to be transgender in high school in order to shower with the girls. (Additional trigger warning: What.) Oh, the sexual assaults he could have committed if there was a legal loophole to allow it.

And these are the people pushing laws supposedly aimed at protecting American women and children from sexual assault. Americans are rallying behind real sex offenders to try to stop imaginary transgender sex offenders.

trans

KISS MY GENDERS REVIEW

ACADEMIC FREEDOM OR INSTITUTIONALISED TRANSPHOBIA?

TRANS WOODSTOCK

THE CALL FOR MEASURED DEBATE ON GRA IS DISINGENUOUS

BEYOND THE BINARY // A CALL FOR NON-BINARY IDENTITIES

REVIEW – TRANSGENDER KIDS: WHO KNOWS BEST?

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: THE BOSS AND BATHROOMS

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