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

REVIEW: ROWENA KNIGHT’S ALL THE FOOTPRINTS I LEFT WERE RED

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, artivism, arts, book, Cadaverine, creative writing, Dorothy Parker, Enid Blyton, feminist, food, gender, humour, immigrant, language, Magma, metaphor, migration, New Zealand, personal, poetry, review, rhyme, Rialto, She Grrrowls, sound, teenage, terminal illness, vegetarian, woman, women, women poets, women writers, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

Rowena Knight has been making waves both in terms of poetry on the page (including Magma, Cadaverine and The Rialto) and on the stage, being a regular at poetry nights across London, as well as a team member of She Grrrowls. Self-identifying ‘Feminist Killjoy’, the collection deals with becoming a woman and growing up as an immigrant from New Zealand as a teenager.Continue Reading

CRITERION

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, accent, beauty, creative writing, Criterio, Criterion, equation, ethos, in translation, italian, italian women in translation, man, poem, poet, poetry, read women, Selenia Bellavia, space, star, translation, void, woman, women writers.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Selenia Bellavia, ‘Criterio’

From the closed recesses of a star
you ask me the real portion
of the clothed hypothesis
you cannot imagine
you do not know the rustle
of the river undivided by an ethosContinue Reading

VAGINAL KNITTING, GIRL ON GIRL CRIME?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged Adam Weinstein, art, arts, bodies, body positivity, Casey Jenkins, Casting off my womb, critics, female body, feminism, gender, Katherine Brooks, knitting, media, MSM, performance, performance art, sex, sexuality, taboo, vagina, vaginal knitting, woman, women, women artists.

by Jess Howard

Content warning: the article mentions menstruation and physical discomfort.

In 2013, performance artist Casey Jenkins from Melbourne, Australia, caused a storm on the internet by knitting for 28 days in a gallery space using wool she had inserted into her vagina. The piece was titled Casting Off My Womb, but was christened Vaginal Knitting by the press. Almost 3 years later, Jenkins is knitting from her vagina once more, producing a commentary on the abuse she received when her original piece went viral.Continue Reading

THIS MAN

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #derangedpoetess, #notallmen, #readwomen, affection, creative writing, gender relations, hate, identity, love, man, masculinity, penis, physicality, poem, poet, poetry, self, sex, theory, UNESCO, woman, women writers, World Poetry Day, writing.

by Rebecca Tamás

This man is an angel
because
he is not a man

I reject the penis as my chosen ontology
even when his penis is in my hand
even when his mouth is open like a sodden
breastContinue 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

ASEAN NATIONS CONTINUE TO BE SILENT ON THE ROHINGYA CRISIS

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bangladesh, buddhist, Burma, development, economy, education, employment, Europe, genocide, healthcare, human rights, Indonesia, international, international news, international politics, Islamaphobia, malaysia, migrant, movement, Muslim, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Price, refugees, riots, Rohingya, singapore, Suu Kyi, thailand, UNHCR, united nations, woman.

by Faizal Nor Izham

The recent Rohingya crisis in South East Asia is nothing new — clashes between the ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have been ongoing since 2012 through a series of riots. By October of that year, Muslims of all ethnicities had begun to be targeted.

The riots were supposedly triggered by widespread fears among Buddhist Rakhines that they would soon become a minority in their own ancestral state. Riots sparked after weeks of sectarian disputes, which included a gang-rape and murder of a Rakhine woman by Rohingyas and the killing of ten Burmese Muslims by Rakhines.

It is the refusal from fellow South East Asian nations to
take in tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees which
has been the main source of recent controversy.

THE MALE GAZE WON’T CURE EATING DISORDERS

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anorexia, body, bulimia, eating disorder, education, female body, feminism, feminist theory, Hollywood, in theory, male gaze, male privilege, media, privilege, self-esteem, street harassment, trigger warning, TW, wellbeing, woman, women.

by Robyn Banks

Eating disorders and low self-esteem in women and girls have been making headlines in both feminist discourse and the mainstream press for years, usually being linked in a variety of ways to the media, be it advertising or the homogenous representation of women. 1.6 million people in the UK suffer from some form of eating disorder, of which 89% are female, and anorexia nervosa has been reported in girls as young as six.

The issue has resurfaced again recently after Dr Aric Sigman, a professor in child psychology, has said that boys are an ‘untapped army’ who can prevent girls’ diet disorders by telling them how attractive they find ‘curvy’ women. At the same time, France unveiled a plan to ban models deemed too skinny from the catwalk. Both of these prevention measures are well meaning, but both are rooted in a profound misunderstanding of eating disorders that could do more harm than good.

SPRING

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged creative writing, female writer, Grazia Deledda, italian, italian women in translation, landscape, mountains, poem, poet, poetry, spring, translation, woman, women.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), ‘La primavera’

Winter had even refreshed
the colour of rocks. Descending from mountains,
silver veins, a thousand silent rivulets,Continue Reading

REVOLT

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Alda Merini, creative writing, dreamer, forest, italian, Italian translation, italian women in translation, Medusa, poem, poetry, revolt, translate, translation, woman, women, writers.

by Alex Valente.

Original Italian by Alda Merini (1931-2009), from ‘La Terra Santa’.

You made me into something dull
a petrified forest
one who cannot cry
for undone motherhoods.Continue Reading

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THE CALL FOR MEASURED DEBATE ON GRA IS DISINGENUOUS

REVIEW: ROWENA KNIGHT’S ALL THE FOOTPRINTS I LEFT WERE RED

CRITERION

VAGINAL KNITTING, GIRL ON GIRL CRIME?

THIS MAN

FUCK SOCIETY

ASEAN NATIONS CONTINUE TO BE SILENT ON THE ROHINGYA CRISIS

It is the refusal from fellow South East Asian nations to
take in tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees which
has been the main source of recent controversy.

THE MALE GAZE WON’T CURE EATING DISORDERS

SPRING

REVOLT

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It is the refusal from fellow South East Asian nations to
take in tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees which
has been the main source of recent controversy.