My interests include social and climate justice, womenβs 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, womenβs 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.
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Latest Stories from Imogen
Is the quantum computing in ‘Devs’ really possible?
We take a peek at the physics behind Alex Garlandβs new sci-fi offering Devs. Will quantum computers be able to tell us the future? Alex Garlandβs newest foray into sci-fi, the Hulu show Devs, is one of the most innovate programs to be screened on prime-time Television for a while. Displaying the same heady mix of strange soundscapes, unnerving visuals, and ambitious set pieces that made his first two...
Greenlandβs ice is melting at an incomprehensible rate
According to a recent study of Greenlandβs ice sheets, 2019 was an incredibly bad year for those who hope to remain above sea level. Greenlandβs ice sheet - the worldβs second-largest ice body - has hit a tipping point likely set it on an irreversible path to extinction. The journal Nature has published a report stating that the snowfall usually relied upon to replenish Greenlandβs massive glaciers each year...
Surprise! WAP is actually a heated climate reform issue
Ainβt nobody going to be able to enjoy Cardi Bβs version of a WAP if Trumpβs government manages to defund the real WAP - the Department of Energyβs Weatherization Assistance Program. According to YouTube, at least 100 million people have familiarised themselves with WAP as defined by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion in their recent song about female pleasure. If you remain one of the innocently unindoctrinated, Iβll...
How to be a greener employee in an unsustainable workplace
The worldβs most climate conscious generation shouldnβt spend the majority of their time in spaces that compromise their future. The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. Depending on decisions you make now, those 90,000 can be spent in complicit nonchalance towards climate degradation, or in green spaces. Learning how to speak up about environmental issues in the workplace is an essential skill of you...
How the vapid #challengeaccepted trend shone a light on Turkish femicide
In an interesting reversal of the typical watering down of social media, celebs recently found their attempts at self-promotion co-opted by something actually important. There was a lot of confusion on Instagram recently after a spate of women began posting black and white selfies tagged β#challengeacceptedβ. The now familiar mix of ubiquity and vagueness, implying exclusivity and inviting further investigation, suggested to Insta users that there was a new...
The climate refugee crisis is at our doorstep
The largest shift in human demographics since people first descended from Africa is currently underway, and weβre not acting like it. The World Bank estimated in 2019 that by 2050, there could be as many as 300 million people displaced due to climate change. To put that in perspective, if these migrants were to form a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world. Despite this, neither...
‘Queer Eye’ shows that empowerment can come from looking fierce
As the rigid structures formed by the 20th century gender wars melt away, the Fab 5 are embodying something Gen Z has long suspected: putting effort into your appearance is woke. The fifth season of Netflixβs Queer Eye started streaming last week, coinciding in the UK with the beginning of the BBCβs You Are What You Wear. The premise of the latter show sees a cohort of diverse stylists...
Lebanon set to become the worldβs next failed state
βWe are heading for the future collapse of everythingβ - financial analyst Henri Chaoul. Lebanonβs economy has shut down. Its population, which includes a large minority of Syrian refugees, is rioting in the streets, and looting diapers and cereal. Its political elites are systematically shutting down negotiations for aid packages with the IMF, unwilling to consider the reforms attached to them. What was once considered a bastion of stability...
Road microplastics are an unprecedented nightmare
New research shows that car tires are responsible for shedding around 100,000 metric tonnes of microplastic a year, the majority of which end up in the oceans. Weβve always known that cars were an environmentally inefficient method of travel, but a new study has put an emphatic exclamation point on the matter. Scientists have discovered that the friction caused by tires speeding across asphalt shreds plastic into microparticles on...
How the US justice system works to protect cops who murder people
The oppressing weight of the system doesnβt only crush us from above; by consenting to damaging racial narratives, we prop it up. As race riots continue to rip open the heart of the country that was meant to guide us in principles of freedom, a courtroom in Hennepin County District Court, Minnesota, stands unexpectedly empty. It was meant to play host to the first court appearance of ex-police officer...
