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
Why women are disproportionately affected by climate change
Increased danger for women in conflict ridden states, and the overrepresentation of women in poverty, are colliding in alarming ways with the effects of climate change. As if women were in the market for any more handicaps in the game of life, new research from the UN shows that we are even more disproportionately affected by climate change than previously thought. A concoction of already extant patriarchal realities along with...
COVID-19 postpones the next big climate conference, but nations stand firm on green targets
From the heads of the European commission to BP, institutions are reasserting their commitment to tackling climate change despite the postponing of COP26 talks in Glasgow. The biggest international climate conference since the Paris Agreement in 2015, when almost every state in the world agreed to Carbon-0 targets, was set to take place in November this year in Glasgow, Scotland. But, after a meeting of UK and UN representatives...
No, thatβs not heartwarming, thatβs just capitalism
How the feel-good stories the media is feeding you actually expose the deepest flaws in our society. In January this year, a young boy from Vancouver, Washington sold keychains in order to pay off his peersβ lunch debts. The story hit international news. 8-year-old Keoni Ching, spurred on by the spirit of his primary schoolβs βKindness Weekβ, sold the bespoke items for $5 a pop in what quickly became a...
Earth Day is even more relevant during a pandemic
Moments of universal crisis bring our world as it is into sharp focus, and also show us what it could be. Though celebrities have been gleefully taking to social media to declare themselves fellow victims of the Coronavirus along with us common folk, this pandemic has been far from a global equaliser. Vulnerable persons living in poor communities β those in cramped housing developments or neighbourhoods with poor air quality, refugees...
Fast fashion and why it’s a feminist issue
Fashion may empower the women who wear it, but it needs to start empowering the women who make it too. A quick google search of βfeminist clothingβ yields about 38.5 million results. Most of these are shopping posts, linking you to slogan tees with phrases like βwoman upβ and βsmash the patriarchyβ on them. My personal favourite is a black tee with white writing βquotingβ Rosa Parks β βNahβ. These tees...
Locust swarms: climate changeβs terrifying new trick
A locust invasion is currently devastating the crops of one of the worldβs most impoverished regions. Climate change has given us many fun new experiences. First, it gave us rising sea levels, making regions uninhabitable. Then it increased wildfires in disaster prone regions, making them uninhabitable. Then it increased hurricanes and droughts, causing, you guessed it, uninhabitability. Now, many of these weather events have combined to create the conditions...
#BoldMoves: the new campaign changing the way we think about sexual assault
The Californian Coalition Against Sexual Assault has launched a public awareness campaign that hopes to teach a new generation how to tackle sex abuse. βSexual violence is a cancer on societyβ announces a new video by The Californian Coalition Against Sexual Assault; βYou have the power to do something about it.β #BoldMoves is a new social media based awareness campaign that provides the public with small tips and actions to...
Dear female artists: stop apologising for winning awards
The Grammys once against proves that women have a humbleness problem. Does anyone remember when - and this is a long shot because it was a while ago - in 2007 Eddie Murphy stormed out of the Academy Awards after losing best supporting actor to Alan Arkin? Okay how about something more recent: when acclaimed director Spike Lee also stormed out of...
Does Netflix have a pseudoscience problem?
Gwyneth PaltrowβsΒ The Goop LabΒ is just the tip of the iceberg. A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research and experiments may be performed. Shockingly, Gwyneth Paltrow and her posse spend zero time in laboratories for the duration of their new Netflix showΒ The Goop LabΒ as thereβs no actual science taking place. And, if weβre honest, thereβs nothing particularly βcontrolledβ about a bunch of privileged white women...
SpaceX makes history with 50th rocket landing
After launching another load of supplies to the ISS, SpaceX proved once again that the sky is no limit when they successfully landed their 50th rocket booster. SpaceX continues to dominate innovation when it comes to space flight, successfully landing its 50th ever rocket this weekend. Two years ago, SpaceX won a $1.6 billion USD contract with NASA to send supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), providing CEO and founder...
