Ray Filar is a freelance journalist and an editor at openDemocracy, working on the Transformation section. Their writing has been published in The Guardian, The Times, and the New Statesman, among others. They are the editor of Resist! Against a precarious future (Lawrence & Wishart, 2015), a book about young people and politics. They tweet, @rayfilar, their website is here.
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Published in: TransformationWhat do you think of Transformation?Transformation, openDemocracy’s newest section, turns one year old today. We want your help in evaluating our progress.
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Published in: TransformationLiberation in the age of the hashtag activistUnder austerity we tweet #bringbackourgirls from the safety of our laptops: anything else is naive. Liberation means...
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Published in: TransformationMental health: why we're all sick under neoliberalismWe don't understand mental health, allocating the label only to those who are struggling, so its political causes...
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Published in: TransformationSilence = death: Sarah Schulman on ACT UP, the forgotten resistance to the AIDS crisisWhen the AIDS activist movement ACT UP was formed in New York in 1987, 50 per cent of Americans wanted people with...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAll hail the vampire-archy: what Mark Fisher gets wrong in 'Exiting the vampire castle'Where to start? He repeatedly accuses feminists of being “moralisers”, when he's not saying we're “vampires” or...
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Published in: TransformationThis week’s theme: Welcome to Transformation
Ray Filar, Associate Editor of our new section Transformation, walks us through its first week