Hi, my name is Jessie, and I’m a writer, activist, and unashamed history and language nerd. That’s why I say that words are my superpower! Explore the world where activism meets inspiration with my posts, and together, we can be part of the conversation for change.
While media attention remains focused on a handful of headline conflicts, millions of people around the world continue to suffer in wars that receive little sustained international coverage. From Sudan and Yemen to Congo and Kashmir, this article explores ten underreported conflicts still burning in 2026, examining their origins, humanitarian impact, and why they remain largely absent from public consciousness.
American history is often taught through triumph and mythology, but these ten powerful books challenge the official narrative and reveal the hidden realities beneath the story of the United States. From empire and propaganda to racism, war, and Indigenous erasure, these works offer perspectives that may fundamentally change how you understand America and its place in the modern world.
War has long been framed through the language of heroism, sacrifice, and national glory, yet for women its realities are often far removed from the battlefield. From sexual violence and displacement to the collapse of healthcare and the burden of survival, women have historically endured some of conflict’s most intimate and devastating consequences. This article explores the hidden toll of war on women throughout history and examines why the promise of “liberation” so often fails to reflect the lived reality of women in war zones.
Do Americans still support war, or has something deeper changed? From the Iraq War to Snowden and modern conflicts, this article explores how a collapse of trust has reshaped public opinion in the United States.
What determines whether soldiers stand and fight or collapse under pressure? This article explores frontline research into the psychology of war and what it reveals about Kurdish fighters, belief, and the true nature of resistance.
Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan has undergone one of the most extreme rollbacks of women’s rights in modern history. Girls are barred from secondary school, women are excluded from universities and most employment, and public space has been redefined as male territory.
But what exists today is not merely discrimination. Increasingly, legal scholars and UN experts are calling it something more precise: gender apartheid — a system of institutionalised domination that may meet the structural threshold of a crime against humanity.
This article examines how Afghanistan’s new legal framework, including the revised criminal code, has reshaped both public and private life for women — and what this means for future generations.
Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed isn’t just a book about classrooms—it’s a framework for power. This review explores Freire’s “banking model,” problem-posing education, internalised oppression, feminist critiques, and why his ideas still matter across today’s struggles against hierarchy and injustice.
Matriarchy is usually imagined as the female version of patriarchy – women ruling over men. But anthropology tells a very different story. Drawing on matrilineal and matrifocal societies from around the world, this article shows how matriarchy is centred on social regeneration, kinship and moral authority, rather than domination. Understanding this difference radically changes how we think about feminism, power and governance.
Hair is never just hair. From Kurdish braids cut as trophies, to girls punished for afros, to women in Iran cutting their hair in revolt, this essay explores women’s hair as the most intimate site of feminist resistance—where power meets the body, and the body answers back.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is not a conspiracy theory — it’s a framework. This article explores how debt, development, and intervention function as tools of modern empire, and why the patterns John Perkins described are still shaping global politics today.