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
MIT are βhackingβ into people’s dreams
The highly experimental Dream Lab at MIT is working on a βdream manipulationβ device. And the best part? The build instructions are available online. We spend a third of our life asleep and dreaming. Ancient civilisations used to believe that dreams were messages from the Gods, whilst the Greeks and Romans saw them as portents for the future. Freud called dreams the βroyal road to the unconsciousβ. Whilst weβve...
August’s March on Washington: will the world follow suit?
On the anniversary of the β63 March on Washington, America will rise up once more. Will the rest of the world follow suit? Well-known preacher and black activist Al Sharpton has announced that heβs organising a March on Washington this August 28th to protest the recent death of George Floyd, as well as years of systemic racism and police brutality in the US. Sharpton issued...
COVID-19: How brands respond now could define them forever
Gen Z consumers have a very clear idea of how corporations should respond to the current crisis. And the consequences of falling short could be dire. As my fellow writer Charlie recently talked about, a brandβs purpose, or rather their purposeful actions, are the operating procedures they strive for on top of the necessary market goal of βincrease capitalβ. Whilst all brands are first and...
Hungary pushes to end legal recognition of trans people
Hungaryβs right-wing government continues to use emergency powers granted during the pandemic to further their anti-LGBT+ agenda. In a move being described by independent MPs as βevilβ and βa step back in timeβ, Hungarian PM OrbΓ‘n looks likely to drive legislation through his predominantly right-wing parliament that will end the legal recognition of trans people in Hungary. The bill will officially redefine gender as βbiological...
Is COVID-19 causing a mental health crisis?
For millions of people who struggle with their mental health, lockdown heralds a huge and unplanned challenge. But some medical experts argue that depression and anxiety during a pandemic are features of mental wellness, not mental illness. Understandably, the physical health of the world is currently at the forefront of everybodyβs minds. During the COVID-19 outbreak we have to heal our bodies and ensure the safety of our fellow...
How the surveillance state is piggybacking on COVID-19
Governments are increasingly hollowing out privacy laws to make way for new corona-fighting tech. In the competition between personal freedom and personal safety, safety usually wins. This is the essential logic that authoritarian regimes in history have platformed off of, and itβs been proved many times over. After a wave of terrorist attacks swept Europe between 2015 and 2017, new data sharing laws were debated and implemented...
Young women have found their niche in climate activism
Thanks to a cohort of inspiring females, climate change looks fitting to be the first issue of international importance shaped by the female gaze. The other week I wrote a piece on how climate change disproportionately disadvantages women, and how we are likely to be the most disenfranchised by the process of global warming. It stands to reason, then, that in the fight against climate change,...
COVID-19: concern mounts for the worldβs refugee camps
Calls for action to prevent an impending medical disaster in densely populated migrant camps grow shriller. As time spent in the infectious stage of coronavirus goes on, experts warn that the worldβs most populated refugee camps are merely biding their time before a catastrophic outbreak. In the Aegean islands of Greece particular, which house approximately 36,000 mainly Syrian refugees, international aid organisations warn that an outbreak...
Stop asking the impoverished to fix climate change
Itβs time we stop letting corporations place the onus for climate change on societyβs least able. The World Economic Forum in Davos last week was more or less a waste of time,Β as I pointed out here. The event purported to be a meeting of top economic and political minds aiming to tackle, amongst other things, climate change. The WEF invited along Greta Thunberg, as well as a host of other...
You need to know about the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The list of rules you might not have known the whole world was following.Β We talk a lot about social change at Thred. We have a whole section for it on our website. We recommend companies who operate within a system of social change, we update you when newsworthy steps towards social change have been taken, and weβve even published a guideline...
