AFTER WEINSTEIN

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #metoo, activism, Alice Kessler-Harris, bell hooks, equality, exploitation, featured, feminism, feminist movement, Harvey Weinstein, health insurance, Jordan Peterson, low wages, margaret thatcher, maternity pay, me too, Milo Yiannopoulos, movement, pension, sexual harassment, Susan Faludi, theresa may, time person of the year, unsafe working conditions, victim, Weinstein, white, womens equality, workforce, workplace, World Bank.

by Scott Mclaughlan

Content warning: article mentions sexual harassment, violence against women, exploitation

According to bell hooks feminism is for everyone; it’s a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Remarkably, given the stream of allegations of sexual harassment and violence against women, triggered by the exposure of sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, today’s popular media appears to have moved on.Continue Reading

REFLECTIONS ON #METOO FROM A TIRED SURVIVOR

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #metoo, #SolidaritynotSilence, activism, activist spaces, ally, Alyssa Milano, attack, awareness raising, BME, campaign, detailed accounts, domination, Donald Trump, Ebony, facebook, gendered violence, Harvey Weinstein, hashtag, hashtag activism, legal systems, liberalisation, masculinity, me too, organisation, patriarchy, perpertrator, pervasive, power, practical steps, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, social media, structural issues, Survivor, Tarana Burke, toxic, transaction, triggering, university, victims, women, workplace.

by Anonymous

Content warning: mentions sexual violence, abuse, sexual harassment, rape, domestic abuse and violence

Last week saw the hashtag #MeToo achieve viral success, following the accusations multiple women made again Hollywood director Harvey Weinstein. The hashtag started when actress Alyssa Milano, tweeted “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem”.

The next week, social media was bombarded with personal account of sexual harassment, abuse, rape, assault and domestic violence. Famous celebrities talked about their experiences and within 24 hours, Facebook reported that 4.7 million people engaged with the #MeToo hashtag with over 12 million posts and comments. Most of the media’s reaction has been positive – finally we are acknowledging that sexual violence is a pervasive problem rather than a few isolated incidents, they say.Continue Reading

EQUALIMANIA

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged affect, corporate, depression, Disney, emotion, feelings, feminism, freud, gender, gendering, Inside Out, intersectionality, kyriarchy, lad culture, lech, Lucy Prebble, mental health, mental illness, patriarchy, pay gap, Pixar, predator, Priyanga Burford, psychology, sexism, The Effect, Tullett Prebon, Wipro, women, workplace.

by Sunetra Senior

For my first article, I thought it would be fitting to explore the relationship between two neglected areas of society that I feel passionately about: the representation of women and mental health issues. Deep down, the thought of a connection existing between emotionality and the female sex might evoke those uncomfortable, backward cultural connotations – women as fragile, women as prone to hysteria, and on the softer side of it, women as the ‘gentler’ sex.

However, bringing Freud into the discussion in general might not be so wrong because the real problem, the ongoing obstacle for both those with depression, bipolar, borderline personality disorder and the whole host of legitimate clinical disorders that I couldn’t possibly all list here, and the limitations that women still face day-to-day, is the wider, ideological practice of repression: namely society’s refusal to acknowledge the significance of psychology itself. Continue Reading

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