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
EU coronavirus deal sets new standard for international solidarity
The European Union has agreed on a coronavirus recovery stimulus plan that shows miraculous cooperation, but it comes with some important concessions.Β After an intense five days of reportedly heated debate, the EU has unanimously passed a deal to aid the recovery of its memberβs economies post-COVID. The agreement includes a host of βfirstsβ in the field of international relations, including collective debt, that may provide a new benchmark...
Development banks spend billions on industrial farming
A recent investigation has uncovered finance worth $2.6bn pumped into industrial farming by development banks, as environmental concerns butt up against humanitarian projects. An exposΓ© by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Guardian has revealed that two of the worldβs leading development banks have invested billions in the global industrial farming sector in the last decade despite having signed pledges of environmental commitment, and despite knowledge of agricultureβs...
Sudan is shifting away from hardline Islamism
The volatile African nation has now officially banned FGM, apostasy laws, and allows the consumption of alcohol by non-Muslims. After the ousting of Sudanβs former military-commander-cum-President Omar Al-Bashir last year, the countryβs ad-hoc government has passed several long-awaited laws that promote a shift towards more democratic values. According to Sudanβs current Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and justice minister Nasredeen Adbulbari, Sudan is officially banning Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), scrapping its...
Yemen is currently experiencing the worldβs worst humanitarian crisis
A severely underreported humanitarian disaster is displacing millions and leaving many more without food. Yemen, one of Africaβs poorest nations, is currently being devastated by a civil war thatβs been raging since 2015. Five years of conflict has plunged the country into one of the worldβs gravest humanitarian crises. As multiple factions backed by complex webs of external powers ravage the land, leading to the displacement of more than...
UK condemns China for treatment of Uighur minority
The UK is finally calling a spade a spade when it comes to blatant Chinese human rights abuses against its ethnic Muslim minority. The UK, which has long been flirting with both US and Chinese national interests in the current conflict between the two, has hinted that it will be taking a firmer stance against China after its crackdown on Hong Kong and its treatment of the Uighur ethnic...
Why Twitter is calling JK Rowling a βTERFβ
JK Rowling taught most of the world a new acronym this week, and not really in a good way. There are over one million words contained within the Harry Potter series in total, though it seems JK Rowling has managed to make just as big a splash in under 280 characters. A recent tweet by the world-famous author has been trending for days now, making the internet aware of...
Referendum extends Putin’s potential rule until 2036
The Kremlin has won a controversial vote to reset Vladimir Putinβs term limits, taking Russia one step closer to a complete dictatorship. A nationwide vote this week in Russia has ratified constitutional reforms proposed by President Vladimir Putinβs Kremlin pseudo-government. A package of constitutional amendments was passed that includes, among other things, a clause permitting Putin to run again for the presidency in 2024, potentially taking his Presidency up...
Lockdown is the time to learn new skills
A plethora of online courses taught by world famous industry professionals are at your fingertips; donβt waste this opportunity. The capitalist economy is set up deliberately to minimise your spare time. From our first saucer-eyed venture into higher education and the job market, our freedom is co-opted by the endless drudgery of the 9-5. In her book Decolonising Time: Work, Leisure and Freedom, Marie Shippen argues that our lives are...
Online dating during lockdown- can love thrive while weβre apart?
Lockdown has accelerated the transition of online dating apps to purely online hangout spaces. Should this trend continue beyond quarantine? If modern communication falls broadly into two categories β the online and the offline β then where do we place online dating? Pre-COVID, it occupied some strange liminal place between the two, with the majority of conversations never traversing the digital despite the fact that this was, for most people,...
Landmark Supreme Court decision protects LGBT+ workers
New federal Civil Rights law prohibits US employers for discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation. A 10-year Supreme Court legal battle has ended this week in a win for the LGBT+ community. The highest court of the federal judiciary in the United States ruled on Monday in Bostock v Clayton County that gay and transgender workers are protected from discrimination in the workplace by Title VII...
