written and directed by Julie Cohen 92 minutes This sensitive, revealing and purposeful doc traces the US practice of surgically assigning exclusively male or female gender to intersex children. That is, babies who were born with characteristics of b

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Our air-source heat pump often seems like magic. Last winter, temperatures here in Oxford fell to -10 degrees Celsius. But this unremarkable looking device, whirring quietly away on our outside back wall, was somehow extracting enough heat from the f

‘Doctor in Gaza’ by Paolo Lombardi (Italy)

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by Dominique Dalcan, featuring Souad Massi, Hend Zouari and Meryem Abouloufa (Ostinato Records, CD, DL, LP) ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com Forget the cheesy title: Last Night a Woman Saved My Life is an album of immense subtlety. Through the medium of

Responding to the Australian public’s overwhelming decision not to recognize Indigenous people in their constitution, prominent First Nations journalist Stan Grant stated: ‘Whatever hope there may be for a different Australia, I likely won’t live to

Built on a land rich in minerals, Kiruna, in the far north of Sweden, was constructed in the late 19th century to house the workers of an iron-ore mine. Since then so much ore has been extracted that the town is at risk of sinking into the hollowed-o

The diverse forest region of Casamance, in the south of Senegal, covers thousands of hectares and is commonly known as the country’s lungs. The area is almost totally separated from the rest of Senegal by Gambia, and thanks to its heavy rainfall it i

Off my local beach, a string of five turbines sprout from the horizon, extending outwards from the port of Blyth – historically a major point for coal export, and more recently a base for the testing and construction of offshore wind. I find them com

Two films I’ve seen over the past year both dealt with human consequences and lives against the backdrop of new, largely faceless renewables projects at opposite ends of Spain. Alcarràs is a heartbreaking story of a family of peach farmers in Catalon

A man gambles at the local casino in the village of Frasquillo in Cordoba, a region of Colombia dominated by the coca business. The shot was taken by Erika Piñeros, who says she got into photography ‘as an excuse to get close to people and their stor

Abiba Nibaradun was just three years old when she lost her mother. She was raised by a distant relative in the Upper West region of Ghana and eventually completed her first degree aged 26. Something changed for Nibaradun when she began working in edu

In November 2023 climate activist Greta Thunberg made international headlines when she was interrupted during a speech to a Dutch climate protest, after stating that climate justice can’t happen without international solidarity against oppression. Sh