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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeeing the women in revolutionary SyriaThe battle for Syrian women's liberation is multi-faceted; and from first-hand experience, we learn just how often...
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Published in: HomeThe roots and grassroots of the Syrian revolution (Part 4 of 4)The fronts of the revolution are many and overlapping, from patriarchy to Arab chauvinism. Despite harsh conditions,...
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Published in: TransformationFeminism helped me survive a forced marriageI have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of fleeing a forced marriage a decade ago. Writing and...
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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: TransformationPhilanthropic power erosion: the Edge Fund alternativeWhen power and privilege are acknowledged and addressed, decisions over funding can unite people instead of dividing...
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Published in: TransformationDemand homes not jails: queer homelessness is being criminalizedCities globally are starting to criminalize homelessness: banning begging and making free food provision illegal. I...
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Published in: TransformationNothing about us, without us: reversing the power dynamics of philanthropyIf money is power, then control over money has to be democratized. What if grants to social movements of sex workers...
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Published in: TransformationNot just about the money: corporatization is weakening activism and empowering big businessActivist and advocacy organizations increasingly look and act like multinational corporations. Is it worth the...
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Published in: TransformationA year of living generouslyGenuine happiness involves sharing time and money, but beware of thinking that the poor belong to some other tribe....
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Published in: TransformationHow I learned to let go and be myselfI was bullied in school for not fitting in, while at home my father abused alcohol to cope with his pain. I learned...
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Published in: TransformationSocial room: making a more civil societyThe US school shooters weren't just pathological murderers, they were responding to suffocating beliefs about...
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Published in: TransformationIs laughter the best medicine for monopoly capitalism?When the New York Public Library hosted an event with Mexican business-philanthropist Carlos Slim, the night got a...
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Published in: TransformationEnough talk about intersectionality. Let's get on with itWhat are we not doing while so many of our movement's resources are being used for unproductive internal arguments?
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Published in: TransformationThe limits of non-cooperation as a strategy for social changeCivil disobedience is vital, but it is insufficient to transform society. A new science of cooperation illuminates...
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Published in: TransformationThe transforming power of metaphorMetaphors are the basic building blocks of how we think and communicate with one another. Let’s use more that speak...
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Published in: TransformationWhy we need radical love to create changeLiving on an isolated island with my dog, it was a departure to find myself with 4,000 other LGBTQ people at the...
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Published in: TransformationWhat would you do in a revolution?Our reviewer went to the theatre to find out. Coney, a British theatre company, have framed a political experiment...
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Published in: Transformation#Iceland3: people who take food from bins should be applauded, not arrestedThe British court case against three men who "skipped" food from Iceland supermarket has been dropped. But food...
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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: TransformationThank You Pete Seeger“We are not afraid…we shall all be free.” Pete Seeger died last night, but the power of his music lives on. One...
