My interests include social and climate justice, women’s issues, and human rights. If you\’re keen on current affairs and social change, check out my profile! Follow me on Twitter and drop me some ideas/feedback via email.
Hi, I’m Imogen, and I’m the Editor in Chief at Thred. I moved to the UK from Australia to study English at the University of Oxford in 2015.
Since graduating, I’ve lived in London where I’m informally studying ethics and learning French as side projects to my main gig as Editor in Chief at Thred. My specialist subjects include social and climate justice, women’s issues, and human rights.
I can usually be found furiously tapping away at my keyboard as I rant in liberal. In the office I regularly take on the role of mum, making pita bread and hot chocolates for my team. Although when it comes to using technology, my status is quickly downgraded to grandma. Despite the grandiose efforts of my team, I have yet to master Photoshop.
Latest Stories from Imogen
Breaking – The new Queens of gaming have been crowned
Breakthrough media company Queens Gaming Collective aims to emancipate women from the male-centric gaming narrative, and it’s about time. ‘All the boys were terrified of us meeting… they were like what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immoveable object?’, says Alisa Jacobs, CEO and co-founder of Queens Gaming Collective of her business partner and co-disrupter Taylor Heitzig-Rhodes. She’s describing the moment she took the idea of Queens, a radical...
Melting Alaskan ice could unleash ‘mega-tsunami’ in matter of months
Scientists warn that glaciated landscapes should be looked at ‘with the same kind of glasses’ as active volcanoes. A group of concerned scientists penned an open letter to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources this May regarding a potentially catastrophic situation brewing in the Prince William sound area on the Alaskan coast. Analysis of satellite imagery suggests that a large glacier is retreating from a rock escarpment at a rate...
Exclusive – New app WaterBear is the Netflix of social change
What happens when NGOs, storytellers, and tech experts unite to take control of our ecological narrative? One of the biggest hurdles that storytellers face today is the disconnect many of us have between problems ‘here’ and problems ‘far away’. We often feel untouched by global issues like climate change when their effects are, for many of us, geographically removed. Even if we do manage to transcend the numbing effect created...
You should know: Ethiopia is on the brink of civil war
Africa’s second most populous nation is in perilous danger of being swallowed by old ethnic tensions. As the world waiting anxiously for the results of the US federal election last Wednesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into the restive northern province of Tigray to face regional soldiers of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Abiy’s federal government, based in Addis Ababa, justified its move with allegations that TPLF...
Chinese students latest to join fight against period poverty
Activists in China are taking it upon themselves to install free ‘sanitary support boxes’ in university campuses across the nation in new ‘Stand by Her’ initiative. It’s not often as a journalist you get to report on an upcoming woke initiative in China. But since October, a grassroots campaign to provide free sanitary products to Chinese women and to end stigma surrounding menstruation has taken off in a meaningful...
How the ‘carbon footprint’ originated as a PR campaign for big oil
One of the most successful marketing ploys of the 20th century was when BP framed you for climate change. It’s a well-known fact that the most effective defence in a criminal trial is an alternative suspect. British Petroleum, the second largest private oil company in the world, was certainly aware of this fact in 2000 when it rebranded itself ‘Beyond Petroleum’, beginning an international marketing and PR campaign which...
Opinion – Trans women in sports: will we ever decide what’s ‘fair’?
World Rugby’s controversial decision to ban trans women from competing highlights one of the thorniest issues of our time. Last week trans women were informed that they will soon be prevented from participating in professional women’s rugby due to safety concerns. The recommendation from World Rugby evidently comes after a review of the latest peer-reviewed research indicating that trans women are ‘not fit for the purpose.’ This unprecedented move follows...
Whistleblower accuses UN of assisting in Uighur genocide
A UN employee has accused the organisation of passing the names of Uighur activists on to the CCP. Every now and then the true value of the concept of a ‘whistleblower’ becomes evident. The UN regulation that ‘staff members have a duty to report any breach of the Organisation’s regulation and rules to officials whose responsibility is to take appropriate action’ is a foundation stone of an intergovernmental body that...
Canada first to label China’s treatment of Uighur’s a ‘genocide’
China’s cultural eradication of their Islamic majority amounts to ‘genocide’, a Canadian parliamentary subcommittee concludes. Canada has officially become the first government to call a spade a spade this week and label the CCP’s treatment of the Uighur people a genocide. In an important development for the mission to liberate China’s Islamic minority from both cultural and literal annihilation, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on...
Chilean referendum hailed as a ‘triumph of democracy’
With large swathes of the world currently backsliding into conservative autocracy, Chile just showed us what democracy could look like in 2020. Chile’s president has hailed the result of this weekend’s nation-wide referendum a ‘triumph of democracy’, as Chileans voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing their outdated constitution. ‘This… should fill us with joy and hope’ said President Sebastien Piñera as early results Sunday indicated a 78% majority supporting radical...
