by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a brown sole coming down on, as if wanting to stomp and crush, a person. ‘BEYOND INDIVIDUAL BLAME’, read the graphic, with a...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. I was once a student on a college campus, and I’ve been around people like Perry Dripps, the Sustainability Engagement Program Coordinator at the Penn State Sustainability Institute that worked to empower...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Mike Jones. Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. In July, I came across an article in The Guardian about the eco-gender gap, which essentially speaks to the ways that saving the world, at least on an environmental level, is deemed to...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Black Light Media. If there is anything that has made me pause a few times this week, it is the photograph taken by Konstantinos Tsakalidis that’s circled mass media as well as social media. An old woman with wildfires raging behind her in the village of...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Mido Makasardi ©️. The day after George Floyd’s murder, the neighborhood residents around S. Carrollton Ave. in New Orleans began their daily nine-minute silent protest, as silent as a protest can be with the St. Charles streetcar rumbling down the...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Mikhail Nilov. “Since the beginning of 2020, I have submitted 700+ job applications-” I stopped reading the Facebook post written by a friend I made in graduate school where we were working towards a master’s of public health a few years ago. I exited...