Dumbo Feather

Dear Reader, The idea of power has never sat well with me. In my mind, it’s been equated with many of the atrocities our world has seen: slavery, war, deforestation, oil spills. It’s been about having control in a relationship, limiting the freedom o

I’m so glad no one asked me to write about women in power 20 years ago. It was 1997. I was smashing it in 1997. First year of a highly competitive university degree, winning all the things. Writing about women in power then would have produced a piec

It is 2006, and I have just become a mother. I am enveloped by the primal power of childbirth, of doing what no man can ever do. After a difficult 17-hour labour and birth, I ask my husband Warren what it was like for him. He says he felt like a spec

Since its founding in 1973, Patagonia has been a pioneer in treating its employees well, caring for the environment and making a profit while doing good. While it is most well-known for its rugged outdoor clothes, these days Patagonia’s family of ven

SUBJECT Ronni Kahn INTERVIEWER Nathan Scolaro LOCATION Sydney, Australia ANTIDOTE TO Food waste and hunger OCCUPATION Social entrepreneur PHOTOGRAPHER Toby Burrows DATE August 2017 UNEXPECTED Used to overcater Ronni Kahn was working at a pri

I volunteer every Monday at the OzHarvest Market in Kensington, Sydney, and take the customers one by one to fill their basket with goodies—including freshly baked bread from the Bread and Butter Project, which helps teach asylum seekers and refugees

SUBJECT Audrey Tang INTERVIEWER Mele-Ane Havea LOCATION Taipei, Taiwan ANTIDOTE TO Distrust OCCUPATION Digital minister PHOTOGRAPHER Sean Marc Lee DATE August 2017 UNEXPECTED Helped build the early Internet Audrey Tang [唐鳳] is many things: tr

Mary Wollstonecraft was 28 and she’d already tried just about every job a woman of her temperament (the non-marrying temperament) could. She’d been a lady’s companion, a governess and a schoolteacher. Prostitution was the only other option, but, as s

SUBJECT Joel Solomon INTERVIEWER Berry Liberman LOCATION Vancouver, Canada ANTIDOTE TO Old business OCCUPATION Impact investor PHOTOGRAPHER Grant Harder DATE August 2017 UNEXPECTED Military school The world is changing so fast you could be fo

SUBJECT Winnie Byanyima OCCUPATION Executive Director of Oxfam International INTERVIEWER Mele-Ane Havea PHOTOGRAPHER Siddharth Khajuria LOCATION Oxford, UK DATE May 2017 ANTIDOTE TO Inequity UNEXPECTED Rule breaker I meet Winnie Byanyima, the

SUBJECT Charles Foster OCCUPATION Writer and academic INTERVIEWER Liz Evans PHOTOGRAPHER Elmore LOCATION Oxford, UK DATE February 2017 ANTIDOTE TO Existential loneliness UNEXPECTED The advantages of dyslexia Communing with nature has become s

I’d just about given up on London, but the foxes’ faith in it and the intensity of their commitment to it touched me and made me think again. I suspected that if I could get as close to it as they were I’d see it properly, and therefore learn to love

1. What can a single poem inspire? What can one verse induce? One poem can offer an outlet for healing. A distinct lyric can allow connection to occur. One poem can lead to the most unlikely friendship. A single stanza can change the fate of a forest