“How to be a woman [and activist] on the internet…”

  While researching a paper on social movements last year, I learned about an activist social media platform called “Chalk Back” that captured my interest. Through the simple act of recording utterances of real-life street harassment in colorful chalk on the sidewalks where they occur in cities around the world …

The Fridays for Future Global Day of Action: Talk Back reports

This past Friday, the 24th of September, the Fridays For Future climate movement held its first global day of action since the start of the COVID pandemic. Using the hashtag #uprootthesystem, protestors took both to the streets and to online spaces to demand intersectional climate justice. Two of our bloggers, …