Planet Protectors (un)profiled…..

By Caroline Osella|September 28, 2017|Is Worthing the New Brighton?, The English Seaside Town and Whiteness, Worthing|0 comments

What do you imagine a green / eco activist to look like?  Be honest, now. Brighton crusty? Bristol tree-dweller? Shouty placard-bearer? We all trade daily in violent shorthand, stereotypes and imagined Others. Media headlines (“Gay alcoholic mother of two”; “Euro-Mega-Boss”) teach us to do it. Sometimes our families and neighbours teach us, too (“that Polish builder opposite”; “sarky auntie”). A Transition Town Worthing meeting severely (and joyfully!) undermined our expectations of an

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Cracked screen drama and i-phone mysteries.

By Caroline Osella|September 6, 2017|Is Worthing the New Brighton?, The English Seaside Town and Whiteness, Worthing|0 comments

Unresponsive screen. Again. Trudging resignedly to the nearest phone repair shop. “£65”. “But it’s not cracked, just slow?” “Screen needs replacing”. Cross the road for second opinion. Same guy pops up behind the counter. “Same price here, £65” he grins. Energised by piss-off, trot along to a 3rd shop. Exact same phone cases cases, same sideline of same fidget-spinners, but no sign of pop-up man. A middle-aged English jack-the-lad with

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