RISE
Rise up: The world can’t fix itself
Do you despair at the news? Deplore those in power? Dream of a future that’s not quite so apocalyptic? Cool. Then what are you doing about it? It’s your fault the world is broken. And mine. It’s our friends’ fault, and their friends’. Our families’ fault, and lovers’ and neighbours’ and colleagues’… it’s all our fault. As a child of… Read more →
Wishlist: Items that can rise to a challenge
Creatively designed and compassionately made, the items in our wishlist will help you overcome adversity, rise to the challenge and change the world. Let your ideas take flight Lift yourself up Rise to the occasion Read more →
Uprising: Photos documenting the anti-Trump movement
My first rally was the ‘Love Rally’ in New York City the day that Donald Trump was elected. People were milling around with placards, a little unsure what to do. But there was a general feeling of love in a community that was in shock. The next day, I joined the thousands of New Yorkers who marched up 5th Avenue… Read more →
Q&A: Pride in London co-chair Alison Camps on the question of rising
The story of the Pride movement is one of people tirelessly overcoming adversity to create a better, fairer, more compassionate world. Alison Camps, co-chair of Pride in London, shares her thoughts. What’s the biggest challenge you’ve personally risen to? I am very conscious that I have led a privileged life and that the challenges I’ve had to face are… Read more →
Rise and shine: How to love the mornings
In Thoughtful’s first (and only!) listicle, I share my 10 top tips for falling in love with the morning. Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and crotchety– best preacher… Read more →
Rising tide: Young climate activists and signs of change
How climate strikers are borrowing words and images from 1960s counterculture to influence the hippies of yesterday that stand in the way of climate action today. A little over a year ago, an image took the world by storm. It was of a girl outside an old building, beside her a white board with hand-painted black capital letters on it: ‘SKOLSTREJK… Read more →
Incantation (We are healing our sister)
A poem by Roshni Goyate, 1/4 of the performance group 4 Brown Girls Who Write Here is heartbreak, in the heart of our circle Walls made of triangles, walls made of light (Triangles of light) Here is heartbreak, heavy-hearted heartache Waiting to be healed Sisters, we are healing; we are healing our sister Hold a mirror up,… Read more →
A playlist you’ll want to turn up to 11
Raise the volume on these songs while you plot how to stick it to ‘the man’ (no offence, chaps). Click on individual songs, or listen to the entire playlist on Spotify. Follow Daianna on Instagram at @daianna.thoughtstarter. Photo credit: Ted Major (header); Finland Lakeland (featured) Read more →