Stories
- Article
My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted
Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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Words of hope and anger
Author and spoken word poet Penny Pepper remembers her childhood dreams, and speaks out against the barriers society uses to prevent disabled people from fulfilling their potential.
Catalogue
- Books
Beyond the laboratory : scientists as political activists in 1930s America / Peter J. Kuznick.
Kuznick, Peter J.Date: 1987- Books
Deep care : the radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open / Angela Hume.
Hume, AngelaDate: [2023]- Books
The intimate state : how emotional life became political in welfare-state Britain / Teri Chettiar.
Chettiar, TeriDate: [2023]- Books
A queer and trans fat activist timeline / Charlotte Cooper.
Cooper, Charlotte, 1968-Date: 2011- Books
Making genes, making waves : a social activist in science / Jon Beckwith.
Beckwith, Jonathan R.Date: 2002