News — social justice

Yesterday I felt sad.* What causes me the most stress, despair, frustration, disappointment and hurt to run through my body is actually not the headlines; it’s not the words and pictures of death and destruction, authoritarian abuses of power, social injustices, or climate collapse (though they all cause me anxiety, anger and heartbreak); it’s the dystopian carrying on as normal; it’s the inability or unwillingness to change, to help, to speak out; it’s the silence. It feels like one of those nightmares where you’re screaming at the top of your lungs and no-one can hear you. It takes inordinate amounts...