[ about us ]

We don’t believe in slacktivism. It’s a word people use because they are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with modern activism in the social media age.

We wrote a paper in high school about how social media helps activism, and that’s exactly what we believe. When you change your profile picture, add something to your story, like a post, or read and share something you’ve read, you educate yourself and give yourself the tools to become further involved. If you stop right there after expanding your knowledge of an issue, you have already accomplished a significant feat. Because if you don’t know that an issue exists, how can you be expected to do anything about it?

As a teenager in 2020, the information about sociopolitical issues can be overwhelming. It can also be disheartening to see so much misrepresentation and mischaracterization in conventional news media outlets, but it is still important to stay informed.

This website started out as a way for us to organize our own thoughts and education of issues around the world, and then we wanted to translate that into a platform that was accessible to anyone who wanted a succinct way to find out more information.

We’ve curated the content on this website based on what we’ve seen and what we believe to be most important and most useful about current issues on a global and local level. Additionally, we’ve provided links to where we found our information, information about organizations that are involved, and visual media that people can directly copy and paste into their social media feeds.

Our hope is that The Slacktivist serves as a useful tool for increasing people’s knowledge of current issues and for inspiring further engagement. We implore people to send in more information so we can keep things up to date as they are happening.

Thanks for following us along on this journey :-)