Breaking the Silence: On the Long Hard Road to Justice, we Walk Alone
Nearly a decade is a long time for any battle – especially if it’s for your human rights, autonomy and respect.
Follow-Up: A Parent’s Perspective on Their Changing Children
“It was like a rebirth – that’s how I would describe it. She had been reborn and wow, there was such a difference in her.” Pearl Wisdom.
December 2022 Editorial
As I write, winter bites and the sparkling December sun is poring through my big window – I’m struggling to remember a highpoint of this year.
The Young People Left Behind: or are They?
Gone are the days of chanting, ‘education is the right of the privileged’ when students demonstrated the broken promise of abolishing university tuition fees.
Roy’s Story and the Hostile Environment Turned Toxic
This is one man’s story of getting caught up in the trickle-down ideological consequences of policy then cultural trends.
September 2022 Editorial
The magazine issue is a week late this quarter, due to illness and the sheer work involved in organising the bike ride fund raiser we did in August.
There is Nothing Open About Open Rent or a Biased Private Housing Sector
Often, people are faced with going into the private sector, where stability is precarious – especially with the current climate of gentrification and other discriminating factors associated with being on a low/fixed income.
Stitched up or Stifled: a Glimpse Inside, Coming Out and Considering Transformative Justice
Prison. Prison wall with barbed wire. Law and justice
This piece examines the use of punishment or its misuse and how or when rehabilitation is applied upon an inmate’s release. An abolitionist approach is considered in the name of holding systems to account, such as with political prisoners.
June 2022 Editorial
Alas, summer is here and solstice is just around the corner. This quarter we’ve got an issue packed with giving people and communities from the margins, a platform as, that is what we do.
Fighting From the Fringes: Going it Alone in a Microcosm of Hell
For the last 6 to 7 years, I’ve been fighting a local authority surrounding my adult son who has complex additional needs in the form of hearing impairment/partially sighted with some learning difficulties.