Your age is just a number. Activism & Advocacy can be done at any age by any person, and it can make a difference. To inspire you so, here are four inspiring young activists that advocate for some issues, across a wide range of global (current) events in our world today. 1. Greta Thunberg You…
2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year (alongside 2018). The earth was 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the average back in the late 19th century. The climate crisis has affected the lives of many people around the globe. Climate change has heightened humanity’s insecurity towards how our future is supposed to look. Over time,…
Its been a year since the original BLM protests and now with the Stop Asian Hate movement, it seems that this is the time we have to be standing in solidarity with our friends from minority groups. Since last May people have been calling out to people the reeducate themselves on the social issues surrounding…
Frida Kahlo is recognized as Mexico’s, if not the world’s, greatest painter. She is a Marxist, reconstructionist, disabled, bisexual painter and activist. Kahlo completely revolutionized the way we view art, gender, and society. Her art, particularly her self-portraits share a personal story of pain and suffering, but also a profound resilience. Kahlo explained, I paint…
Due to your insight, dedication, and value to our city and its future, you are invited to… WHAT: Youth Are Calgary Conference WHEN: June 10th, 2017 10am-4pm WHERE: The event will take place in the Main Atrium of the Calgary Municipal Building 800 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, AB T2P 2M5 WHY? The Calgary Mayor’s Youth…
Ah, Halloween, a time of frights and fun, candy and costumes, ghosts and ghouls, and – cultural appropriation and racism? Halloween is the one day a year you can decide to be something you’re not, to get creative, and try something new without consequence, making it one of my favourite holidays! However, when people take…
Introducing: Hafsah Syed, April 2016 Blogger of the Month! Not too long ago, I had the enlightening opportunity to get to know outstanding Youth Are Awesome blogger Hafsah Syed. (actually, we chatted on her 17th birthday!) We sat down at Good Earth Coffeehouse, and didn’t end up eating or drinking anything, but I still learned…
I’m going to be brutally honest here: I haven’t changed my Facebook profile picture to “support France and the people of Paris” and I have no intentions of doing so. Instead, when I logged into Facebook on Saturday night after a few days of being away and I was met with a newsfeed of 90% red,…
Until last week, eighteen year-old Instagram model Essena O’Neill was the perfect model of what, in her opinion, Instagram and other social media sites are all about: deception, vanity, and competition. With 612 000 followers in tow, she walked through life a slave to her internet popularity; she spent hours trying to find the perfect lighting,…
I don’t know about you guys, but ever since I learned about Climate Change and Global Warming, I have been hyper aware of climate disasters and have wondered, is it all connected? To me it seems very odd that some of the world’s deadliest and extreme disasters have all happened in the last five years,…