14th February 2020, Glasgow. Image: Leda Bartolucci In September, I spoke about mental health and the climate crisis, and today I’m going to do the same – but this time, it isn’t aimed at us. It’s aimed at our leaders, our politicians. I was hopeful in September, but now I’m angry. “Hope” is a wordContinue reading “On Hope”
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Flooding and Adaptation in Scotland
This is an attempt at the transcript from a live Twitter broadcast I know I said I would do this broadcast at the weekend, and it’s now almost exactly the opposite of that, but never mind! We often hear about how the Western world is responsible for something we don’t suffer from – but theContinue reading “Flooding and Adaptation in Scotland”
Stand With Vanessa
The Associated Press scandal accidentally provided the perfect visual metaphor for the anti-Global South bias, but this fight is long from over. It’s 2020, and racism is alive and well – and it’s killing people. Let me preface this by saying that none of what I am writing is new or revolutionary; marginalised voices haveContinue reading “Stand With Vanessa”
Climate Anxiety & Me (and maybe you)
Climate Anxiety might be expected, but please don’t tell me that the way I feel is reasonable. Content Warning: This post talks about ableism, mental health issues, and the death of a family member We’re hurtling down the tracks to existential climate horror, and the only people able to do anything don’t seem to care.Continue reading “Climate Anxiety & Me (and maybe you)”
Silence holds hands with Violence
Wednesday 11th December 2019 started brightly for many young activists – Fridays for Future occupied the main stage at COP25, the UN sponsored climate talks in Madrid, in an action mainly engaging white youth, and Greta Thunberg was awarded Time’s Person of the Year. However, the picture quickly shifted to become much darker when aContinue reading “Silence holds hands with Violence”
Solidarity, strikers!
I’m Helen, I’m 21, and I’m fucking terrified. I strike in Glasgow with SYCS, and more widely with the global Fridays for Future movement, but my first love is history. I hope one day that I can devote my energy towards it again, but that is very much dependent on whether we still need toContinue reading “Solidarity, strikers!”
