Real voices

Wanga Zembe-Mkabile outlines the experiences of primary caregivers during COVID-19 lockdown in Cape Town. …Read more

A Homes for Ukraine host recounts her experience of housing refugees and discusses the lack of government and local council support.…Read more

Adetoun Adebisi Oyelude calls for scrutiny of the role of indigenous knowledge in sustainable development and asserts that it should be treated with respect. …Read more

Richard Machin looks at the UK’s response to the financial & housing needs of Ukrainian refugees, more than a year on from the Russian invasion, and argues that a stronger safety net is needed.…Read more

Aiming to change perspectives on public housing, John Bissett talks about what life is like for the people who live on the estate and how it is shaped by gender and class, not simply deprivation.…Read more

The Media Sigils consider the value of representations of domestic violence in film when so few cases of men’s violence against women get into the news. …Read more

Jenny Edkins, co-editor of 'When This Is Over', explains why the trauma and implications of the pandemic are not going away. …Read more

Sumanta Roy and Ravi Thiara consider the impact of the pandemic on Black and minoritised VAWG survivors and the organisations that support them. …Read more

Sarrah Kassem, author of, Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy, calls on us to delve deep into the realities of the workers behind our screens keeping the platform economy going.…Read more

Dan McQuillan, the author of Resisting AI, suggests that ChatGPT may be seductive, but it’s a dangerous distraction from the socially useful production and commons-based solidarity that we really need, and we must resist it.…Read more