2020 has been the year of unimaginable upheavals in practically every sphere of human life. For one, extant coronavirus pandemic has challenged life as we know while questioning the very fiber of modern day capitalism and shaking the core of our global economy. Human relationships, workplace politics, governments and everything else in between has been...
Ecofeminist activism may have grown out of the feminist and environmental movements of the 1970s but it is here to stay. From teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to environmental feminist rockstar Vandana Shiva, it is girls and women who are taking the lead in the modern environmental and climate change movements across the world. And...
Today (July 7) is Blackout Day, a movement encouraging blacks and people of color (BIPOC) and their allies to come together in solidarity and end systemic racism through their economic power, by refusing to spend a dime at any business unless Black-owned. How did Blackout Day begin? According to Wikipedia, the event was conceived in 2015...
In the last month the United States and other nations have been rocked by protests against racial discrimination and the ill-treatment of Black folks. While the origin of the protests is police brutality, the movement has done much to spark conversations on other related issues asides from racism such as economic classism, poverty, and even...
The climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity in modern times. Some people find this hard to believe though because in day-to-day life, the climate concern does not translate into an immediate worry. Put differently, when you consider that so far, no city has been swallowed by water or any of the...
If I hear anyone say that we live in unprecedented times again, I’m going to scream. It doesn’t make it less true. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes and 36 seconds in response to a call that Floyd may have used a counterfeit bill...
Manila, Philippines: It’s the season for civil unrest. As millions of people in and outside of the United States stand with the black community and scream for systemic change, the Philippine Senate has just passed a senate bill to repeal the Republic Act No. 9372 commonly known as the Human Security Act of 2007. The...
Three in every four Australians hold a negative view about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, according to stark new research this week. As ANU researcher Siddharth Shirodkar explained, these views can lead to widespread racism. This study presents stark evidence of the solid invisible barrier that Indigenous people face in society. But the data...
Our world seems to be constantly in turmoil. When there is no outright crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, then there are always contentious issues. Issues such as racism, capitalism, immigration, poverty and gender are constantly under discussion. Generally, these discussions are held to proffer solutions. Due to their near-universal and complex nature, one would expect...
2020 has been quite the year so far hasn’t it? These past few months have been a whirlwind of worry and all kinds of emotions. I mean from threats of World War III, the Australian wildfires down to the most game-changing of it all; the global COVID-19 pandemic. Nations around the world have been on...
In honour of Ahmaud Aubrey, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, George Floyd and the countless others whose lives were taken unjustly – and on reflection of the many injustices inflicted on black, brown and people of colour (individuals such as Christian Cooper who was the subject of racial weaponisation and discrimination when white woman Amy Cooper (no relation)...
What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow for ever. But what is a steady-state economy? Why it is it desirable or necessary? And what would it...