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Musings in a climate crisis, wrestling with the big ideas, ups and downs of a newbie activist

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Rewriting the future – an anthropological research on Cli-fi

Writing the resistance | On climate fiction and stories of hope for the future

12 min read Mélissa (Lili) Ainseba

Moving the climate crisis from our heads to our hearts

A summary of the key ideas and concepts I’ve gleaned from Britt Wray’s Generation Dread, interwoven with my own musings. I took a psychology degre

25 min read Sophia Cheng

Permission to feel: the key to unlocking our potential?

I’ve dedicated most of this weekend tucking into Marc Brackett’s Permission to Feel. I’ve wondered how much wisdom was lurking in th

14 min read Sophia Cheng

Get me into that doughnut!

Economics. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase ‘learning economics’? When peers were leafing through the UCAS yellow pages of all

23 min read Sophia Cheng

A bone to pick with Bonnie Tyler: no more holding out for a hero

This is not easy for me to say, I love Bonnie Tyler and while I don’t know her full back catalogue, her two huge hits are synonymous with pure t

7 min read Sophia Cheng

It’s about time

Do you know the time?Marvellous, ok. Next one: Do you know what timezone you’re in? It turns out travelling for 4 years and working with interna

10 min read Sophia Cheng

Body status: No longer fit for purpose

In true influencer style, I picked up Primate Change after hearing an interview with Vybarr Cregan-Reid on my favourite podcast, Sustainababble. IR

11 min read Sophia Cheng

Smashing out of the matrix and getting on with utopia

Utopia does feel a bit silly doesn’t it? Uncool, not very edgy and a bit naive. Perhaps because it’s been unfashionable for a while now in

16 min read Sophia Cheng