Connected Lives News Today

Taking a look at developments in arts, health and well-being practice and seeing how culture can be a protective practice.

A crass ‘teenage pregnancy = statutory rape’ cry will simply exacerbate this. An open letter to Minister of Health Joe Phaahla.

In Hertfordshire, social workers, OTs and care staff alike believe in the importance of risk for the people they work with.

Generation Q, the new generation of emerging climate change activists

We spend many waking hours preparing for work, at work, or recovering from work, and many of us live in societies that, in the words of scholar Kathi Weeks, “expect people to work for wages.” In The transatlantic slave trade in the 1500s–1800s bound up capitalism with colonialism and racism. Slavery was progressively abolished starting in the late eighteenth century in Haiti and continued through the nineteenth century, but this did not bring an end to racial hierarchies or the entanglem...