about


Issy is a writer & editor from Sydney, Australia, currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. She has a keen in interest in Australian social politics, contemporary gender issues, history and interpretations of history. 

She has been an editor at the Meridian Magazine and A Little Insight, a Columnist at Tharunka UNSW, writer at Floresta Magazine and is currently a freelance writer. 

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Aspen & Steel •

Facing the Worst: Period Poverty in Australia.

Periods are one of the biggest challenges facing women and girl’s education worldwide, it can often be framed as a distant problem facing only countries far from our own. Period poverty is, by definition, being unable to afford the products needed throughout one’s period. It often results in having to miss out on school or work, and it impacts close to 50% of the 125 000 respondents to Share the Dignity’s survey so much so, that they have missed at least one day of school. Sanjay Wijesekera, for
A Little Insight •

Nuclear Colonialism: The Story of Maralinga

In the midst of the Cold War, almost everyone was watching the race for Atomic Bombs. The world looked on as one by one major military powers created their own weapons of mass destruction following the United States attack on Japan during World War Two. They had shown the power and destruction possible with these weapons as they destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima and other military powers saw the possible unbalance of power if they did not have comparable weapons.
Floresta Magazine •

Cruises: Floating Cities Dumping Their Waste With Paradise

In 2018, 26 million people boarded a passenger cruise ship representing an unregulated industry that had generated $117 million USD in 2017. These floating cities have always been environmentally questionable, goliaths moving through vulnerable ecosystems.

Friends of the Earth’s annual cruise ship report card’s highest mark for 2020 is a B-, given to Disney Cruises, which notes the ineffective international laws on maritime industries. These monoliths, moving slowly through thousands of kilomet
Floresta Magazine •

My Home, On Fire

As COVID-19 slowly diminishes from eyesight, the new threat looms overhead. The constant talk of isolation and pandemic replaced by news of K’gari aflame. Queensland’s most iconic sand island, Fraser Island, a World Heritage listed site has been aflame for over a month, and is expected to remain so for another six weeks. While the newest disaster in the hellscape of 2020 was clouded by the news cycle, images of bushland on fire and firefighters discussing the issues of fire reduction made their