It seems almost impossible nowadays to go online without being inundated with alarmist news and polarising headlines. In the age of fake news, this information overload can make it hard to distinguish useful discourse form intentional misinformation. With constant news coverage often comes harmful shortcuts and ready-made conclusions, especially as it pertains to crime and …
Many of us may have noticed a new and growing openness around mental health in the past few years. Whether it be in the workplace, in schools and universities, among our friends or even online, the tendency to take mental health more seriously than ever before has also been sharpened by the effects of the …
With hindsight, I know how unhealthy it was, but, at the time, an online group became my entire life. This may seem like an extremely unlikely blog piece to read: I am for all intents and purposes one of the most unlikely people you might expect to confess to having serious problems with an online …
Why we must reimagine urban public spaces to create a more equal and inclusive environment for London’s diverse communities. When navigating the streets of London, have you ever considered for whom the city has been designed? Whether you and the person walking over the road can freely move around the city in the same way? …
After over 18 months of lockdowns and stay at home orders, the ways in which we have all had to adapt our lifestyles in the wake of the pandemic have left indelible marks on us all. While we are being asked to “go back to normal,” many are experiencing a newfound desire to use their …
What does a Q&A between a White Englishman and BAME immigrant woman reveal about differences in lived experience and privilege, even between two people in a committed relationship? I am an Asian woman and immigrated to England at a very early age, so, for all intents and purposes, I think of myself as English and …
How many of our instinctive habits are results of our ancestors’ experiences of inequality and discrimination? For years, I have known what the concept of ‘intergenerational trauma’ was, but I’d always thought about it as something that affected other people — something I didn’t really need to think about much apart from just to be …
We have more access to information now than previous generations have ever had—with both historical and new information co-existing, it can be hard to process everything that we are seeing daily, especially when two pieces of information contradict each other. This information can include new media, news articles, advertisements, new stimuli or environments, a change …
It’s hard to deny that COVID has changed the world. Upon the onset of the pandemic, our world completely flipped, and many of us were happy that we no longer had to wake up early to head to school or work. However, the disruption of education has had negative consequences for many young girls around …
Diversity is a beautiful thing: every single person has a different perspective due to their unique background as they are of a different race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and age to the next person. Without diversity, our world and lives would be dull. Diversity must be celebrated in all facets of life: at schools and …
