This year’s COP27 in Egypt entailed a vital goal of tackling the issue of funds for climate-vulnerable nations, whilst also helping developing countries transition from a coal-based to a green economy. This topic was named “Loss and Damage” and was a continuation from the failed attempts at COP26 to reach a decisive conclusion. But unfortunately, I wouldn’t exactly call this year’s Climate Summit a success either.
What does good posture look like? Many would say it’s sitting ramrod straight, shoulders back, head up, and that bad posture is a teenager’s slumped shoulders, curved back, eyes glued to their screen below. But the reality is much more complicated than that.
Thanksgiving, which happens annually on the fourth Thursday of November, is an American National Holiday centred around gratitude for the harvest and other blessings of the year. Its history seems to show a peaceful coalition between the Indigenous people of modern-day Massachusetts and the Pilgrims – white settlers who arrived in the 1600s – however research has shown the truth to be much darker. I have found conflicting information online and so will aim to present as balanced a narrative as I can, whilst also assessing the transparency of the celebration through the lens of the marginalised Native Americans.
For as long as there have been clothes, they have needed mending. It is simply a fact of life that, if you wear something lots, it will eventually need some kind of repair. Unfortunately, in this age of fast fashion, it is becoming less and less normal for one to wear clothes for long enough that they even need mending, yet alone for one to actually go and mend them. I like to think that this is largely due to ignorance, rather than laziness, and so in the name of educating the masses on the lost art of mending, I would like to impart some basic knowledge on fixing clothes.
What does American spiritualism, Black mediums and feminism have in common? Surprisingly, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the overlapping ideas were very much interlinked.American spiritualism was a movement that was catapulted into the zeitgeist in 1848 New York, when the Fox Sisters first heard a mysterious supernatural spirit ‘rapping’s’ in their bedroom, although the ideas of communing with the dead had long pre-existed. Spiritualism itself is defined as a ‘system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums,’ and is still in practice today, combining elements of Christianity, Hindu and Buddhist ideology, and for better or for worse, elements of traditional Native American rituals, with the main covenant being that the spirits are a fundamental part of our existence.
