Cindy Chen
When domestic violence is featured on the news, it is usually classified as a ‘domestic matter’, dismissed to the private, rather than public, sphere. With the Canadian government enacting Covid-19 stay-at-home orders, and as schools and workplaces close indefinitely, the safety of children and adults forced to stay indoors in abusive households are at risk.
Read MoreWilliam Keo
Since their exodus, the Rohingya refugees have been going through hell. Bangladesh represents a difficult stage in their quest for asylum. From the outset, the refugees seek humanitarian aid. Water, food, shelter and access to health care are their main concerns. However, areas where this aid is distributed can quickly become assembly points where the situations can take a turn for the worst.
Read MoreSaskia Hagelberg
There are between 60,000 and 80,000 sex workers in the UK. The UK government estimates that over 70% are mothers, many of whom sell sex to support their families. With no income and in the absence of financial assistance from the government, it is not only the sex workers who will face destitution, but the children, partners, parents, and grandparents who rely on their earnings.
Read MoreJessica Algie
Back in January, during her commute into London, my Aunty noticed that upon embarking the train carriage people started to move away from her and walked into the next carriage. When my Aunty decided to take her seat next to an old lady, the lady proceeded to get up and manoeuvre away. For the next two months before lockdown, this incident repeated itself like a recurring nightmare.
Read MoreJulie Reintjes
“Art deals with emotions, and people relate to emotions. Thousands of articles about war in the Middle East and North Africa don’t change a thing. But when they see the image of Alan Kurdi, emotionally, people are engaged very quickly. The reason is: people are looking for stories. In my little miniatures there are stories.”
Read MoreJulie Reintjes
Omar’s diverse artworks are about influencing unexpected audiences and re-appropriating the word refugee in order to alter people’s perceptions. His photographs and installations explore the wide spectrum of refugee identities through surreal aesthetics, cathartic collaboration, narration of the minutiae, and disruption of hegemony-dominated public space.
Read MoreJulie Reintjes
This series will explore how the visual artistic practices of three artists narrate lived experiences of forced migration. For what purposes do these artists create; what artistic practices, methods, aesthetics and themes do they use for engagement, self-definition, and expression; and what does this tell us about the lives and rights of refugees?
Read MoreSania Mahyou
In the ranks of the uprising movement that has been affecting Lebanon for almost a month, many revolutionaries are women. In addition to the substantial demands related to corruption, the cost of living, unemployment, public services, and the political system, they are fighting for their own rights as women.
Read MoreLola Massinon and Juliette Chalant Devlesaver
On the 24th of November 2019, 10,000 people took to the streets of Brussels to raise their voices in a march protesting violence against women, organised by the Mirabal collective and other organisations. A day full of enthusiastic energy, cohesion and anger, more people turned up than ever before to take a stand against discriminatory, institutionalised and systemic violence.
Read MoreThomas Dorrington
A key message of the day was on climate justice and the class war that climate change threatens: those that have contributed least to the problem will suffer the most, and are in fact already suffering. The day of disruption sought to highlight the far greater disruption already faced by countries around the world as a result of the UK’s financial sector and UK backed companies.
Read MoreNadja Wipp
The social media landscape has also provided a platform for people to perform, to depict volunteer work as heroic, and to construct an image of selflessness. Within this narrative framework, the volunteer’s identity while traveling becomes a ‘pure’ self - a Saviour. Does this phenomenon not echo similar ideologies of colonialism, imperialism, and the project to ‘civilise’?
Read MoreDerek Tahara
My grandparents did not understand that the President authorised an executive order enforcing the detainment of thousands of Japanese Americans, a decision that all started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor 1941. All they understood was that when the weather and time would allow it, they would be able to go outside and play.
Read MoreCharlotte Musinga
White television tries to express dominance over the developing world while promoting the believable stereotypical single-story: Africans are poverty-stricken or less-than. Is it not believable for an African story to be one that is desirable, successful, or even metropolitan?
Read MoreEllen Waters
This poem explores the apathetic attitude towards the climate crisis and the ease with which it can be overlooked in favour of less disagreeable and daunting topics. It seeks to highlight the way in which people become spectators, feeling horror at the state of things whilst at the same time maintaining a detachment which prevents genuine progress from taking place. Ultimately, the piece shows how the imminence of this threat facing the younger generation can also work as a powerful motivator that stirs people to take action.
Read MoreAntonia Langford
This poem is based on collective sentiments experienced by youth climate activists I encountered through the Fridays for Future demonstrations. It explores the recent intergenerational lens that has been applied to narratives about the environment and our duty/responsibility towards it. Originally a spoken word piece, it leans on the rhythmic and aural tropes of activist chants and anthems, seeking to connect to audiences on a visceral as well as linguistic level.
