stuff by paige

Like most people in or current world situation, I have been spending a lot of time binge watching things on Netflix.  When I saw Down To earth with Zac Efron suggested on my home page, I was instantly intrigued. Zac Efron has made a documentary?  Huh?  The show follows Zac and his friend Darin as they travel around the world, visiting places and communities and exploring how different areas of society are living sustainably and offering new methods and solutions for the fight against global warming and climate change. A particularly interesting aspect of the show to me was how blatantly aware Efron is of the world he lives in. Hollywood is extremely detached from the reality of our worlds problems, taking their time to promote fads and over consumption rather than tackling real world issues. Efron uses his voice and influence throughout the show to highlight these problems, and shed light on solutions for power generation, food and produce production and consumption...

At the beginning of the pandemic, I decided to give myself a break from reading. As a creative writing graduate, reading was something unavoidable, meaning that after finishing all of my final assignments, I needed a rest from anything  reading    intensive. That was until the world was forced to open their eyes wide and raise their voices against the vile, blatant acts of racism present in society, sparked by the death of George Floyd. Numerous cases of police brutality surfaced on all social media platforms, highlighting the presence of systemic, and brutal, acts of racism all over the globe, uniting people to protest for Black Lives Matter.  I found myself reading, educating myself through numerous resources which I had found online and through my own university library, signing and sharing each and every petition which I could find under Twitter threads. The current world situation and my resurgence of my need to read reminded me of a book that I ha...