We ran out of school to march for Fridays for Future, and still the world doesn’t seem to stop burning. Whether we shouted against Brexit, or war, or marched for Sarah Everard or Black Lives Matter, the forces that promised to bind us together – specifically social media and the internet – have left so many fraught and lonely and unable to organise meaningful change.
Activists are disappearing. Steinem knew this, telling the New Yorker in 2015 that she admired the intersectionality that the internet afforded, but worried women were forgetting “you still have to make change happen in real life”.
