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About Sarah Lindon

Sarah Lindon works in the Guardian's online community team. She was previously commissioning editor at openDemocracy

Articles by Sarah Lindon

Thursday 14th June

Wrapping the renga

Sarah Lindon, 14 June 2007

So what did happen next? The author and reader rengas reach their end

Plus: Sarah Lindon peels the layers of a storytelling experiment

Thursday 8th March

Gendered states

Sarah Lindon, 8 March 2007

Questions of culture hindering women’s political participation don’t just arise around tradition, custom and religion. They go to the heart of the state, says Sarah Lindon.

Friday 10th February

Words on images: the cartoon controversy

Sarah Lindon, 10 February 2006

Across four days, twenty writers from ten countries assessed the political and cultural fissures opened by the row over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Sarah Lindon summaries and reflects on this openDemocracy feature.

Tuesday 20th December

Diversity in question

Sarah Lindon, 20 December 2005

2005 has been a bad year for multiculturalism. Does it need to be reformed or replaced? Reena Bhavnani, Max Farrar, Judith Squires, and Sami Zubaida joined an openDemocracy / Open University panel to discuss living with difference. Sarah Lindon summarises a rich discussion which you can watch by webcast.

Wednesday 28th September

'High Tide: the truth about our climate crisis,' Mark Lynas

Sarah Lindon, 28 September 2005

“How global warming is hitting people’s lives, not in the future, but in our world today”

Tuesday 20th September

Talking democratically

Sarah Lindon, 20 September 2005

Can unmediated, massive-scale debate between peers in a networked society really change democratic practice? openDemocracy's Sarah Lindon sheds the skin of her role as forum moderator and draws on her experience to attempt a theory of democratic conversation.

Monday 25th October

Mapping London's multiculture

Sarah Lindon, 25 October 2004

Sarah Lindon reports on openDemocracy’s event in September, exploring how London's diversity can contribute to an understanding of multiculture

Wednesday 7th July

Untranslatable words

David Hayes and Sarah Lindon, 7 July 2004

There are worlds within words. Welsh, Japanese, Hungarian, Albanian, Persian – each language contains a unique inner life: histories, pleasures, sensibilities, associations, literatures. In this series, people explore the imaginative life of words written on their tongue.

Monday 29th December

Talking democracy: 2003 in our forums

Solana Larsen and Sarah Lindon, 29 December 2003

This year we introduced our new discussion forums, now you can find over 11,000 messages from across the globe. This brief overview of the highpoints, by our forum moderator and readers' editor, is both an introduction to those of you who haven’t yet visited, and a thank you to all of you who have contributed.

Monday 7th April

Poetry amidst war

Sarah Lindon, 7 April 2003

War annihilates, politics aggresses – but poetry voices. The vitality of poetry in the anti-war movement reveals people’s need in critical times to make the inner, creative voice part of a shared, public presence. Its impulse is not the anchoring of art to a didactic message, but rather the return of politics to its true origin in the lived experience of humanity.

Wednesday 15th January

Protest days: the peace movement comes out in global demonstrations on 18 January and 15 February

Sarah Lindon, Rosemary Bechler, and Michael Rebehn, 15 January 2003

Twice in the next month, citizens worldwide will march in the streets – and engage in imaginative other kinds of protest – against US war on Iraq. Here, openDemocracy maps the democratic insurrection of a million minds and hearts.