What a time to be alive, isn’t it? As learned from Hylland Eriksen: “Everything globalizes except democracy” (Eriksen, 2014: 86). Even a virus – we must now add. But let’s talk about the internet. Internet The Internet has passed through us like a gale, like a hurricane. All of a …
Alongside Clicktivists and White Saviours, there are a few other belief systems and behaviours that might just be a little less known and a little more insidious. Here are a couple of them – with comics to lighten the load – and their antidotes (spoiler alert, one of them is …
The Covid-19 pandemic has completely reshaped the way we do our jobs, how we stay in touch with our family and friends, how we learn, shop, bank and a multitude of other activities that we might not traditionally have done online. For the 54% of the global population with access to …
You may have read my How to be a Clicktivist post, you ought to know that being a White Saviour is a level up in the Development Game. Unlike Clicktivism, White Saviourism is not a new phenomenon (colonialism, anyone?). Sure, these days White Saviours don’t commit genocides, enslave people, and …
As fate would have it, I was born in Madrid, the capital of Spain, more than thirty years ago. “Mine” was one of the first and more bloody-minded countries to develop and implement the system that legitimizes the invasion and expropriation of other peoples’ lands and resources. The system that …
