activism

Link between internet speed and political activism revealed

Researchers from Cardiff University and Sapienza University of Rome have concluded that the faster someone’s internet speed is, the less…

2 years ago

‘P**s off you brats’: Rose McGowan blasts ‘fake activism’ of Netflix staff protesting Dave Chappelle’s ‘transphobic’ special

“I hear your feelings got hurt by Dave Chappelle,” McGowan tweeted, in a mocking message to Netflix employees and supporters…

3 years ago

Occupy Wall Street had the potential 10 years ago to take activism to the next level. Instead, it may have crippled it forever

When activists began setting up tents in lower Manhattan 10 years ago, inspired in part by the Arab Spring and…

3 years ago

The ‘say anything, do nothing’ nature of online activism is abjectly failing to improve the world

If you’re an activist of any variety, you’re living in a golden era. While there have been more troubled periods…

3 years ago

What is the problem with most social media activism? It’s ill-informed, changes nothing and oversimplifies complex issues

Online activism comes in many forms, from symbolic signaling of a position on a crisis or issue, such as changing…

3 years ago

AP fires young news writer with history of pro-Palestine activism after controversy of agency ‘sharing offices with Hamas’

Emily Wilder lost her job with AP just over two weeks after she was hired to write news from Maricopa…

3 years ago

The madness of radical trans activism: Shops sell knitted penises for girls of 3 to wear in their pants so they can look like boys

Referrals of children to gender identity clinics have surged in recent years. The impact on teenage girls is well documented,…

3 years ago

In this age of narcissism, political activism is all about the activist, not about the cause

While house hunting recently, I strolled through an upscale, though approachable neighborhood full of younger residents – the millennials and…

3 years ago

Activism for hire? By ditching climate change for Sikh separatism, Greta Thunberg shows her naivety and erodes her credibility

It was inevitable that as soon as Greta Thunberg grew up, her role as the global teenage icon of climate…

3 years ago

Time for some NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism Research: Forget activism, here comes ‘artivism’ in support of BLM’s aims

You could be forgiven for thinking an exhibition opening in Coventry this week was a spoof, a satirical piece of…

4 years ago