
Amika George: “Activism can be done through your phone”
Free Periods, the campaign she started as a schoolgirl, helped alter government policy. Now, in her new book, the 21-year-old offers guidance on fighting for change, whatever your cause.
Free Periods, the campaign she started as a schoolgirl, helped alter government policy. Now, in her new book, the 21-year-old offers guidance on fighting for change, whatever your cause.
Ayton is the megaphone-wielding figurehead of a movement that aims to eradicate institutionalised racism wherever it’s found. As focus turns from marches to three-tier local lockdowns, the 29-year-old is contemplating how to maintain momentum while socially distanced, and how to create real and lasting change within the UK.
For our winter issue, we made the decision to focus, predominantly, on stories from within our own shores.
Social justice slides are dominating Instagram right now, but Adapt – the platform’s original “Climate Club” – is galvanising its online community with impactful, IRL activism, too.
The founder of the ethically-focused fashion brand sits down with THE FACE to talk sustainability, activism and what we need to learn from the 2016 election.
Yesterday, protestors gathered in London and Abjua, Nigeria, including Wizkid, Burna Boy and Davido, to call for the abolishment of SARS – a corrupt unit of the Nigerian police force. Here's what went down in the capital.