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This week, members of the Frontline Migrant Health Workers’ Group (FMHWG) are providing oral evidence at the third module of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, focused on healthcare workers. These hearings, and the inquiry more generally, provide a chance for people at the frontlines of the pandemic to share what happened to them on the public record.

My journey into climate activism started in the summer of 2022 when I saw the realities of the climate crisis on a friend’s instagram. They had shared images and videos of the flooding in Pakistan which. Seeing the destruction caused by the rising water, families fleeing their homes, people crying, homes and livelihoods lost was heartbreaking. It frightened me, but I felt an urge to learn more.

On a cold February evening, I went to see the sex worker cabaret, Sexquisite. The show opened with an aerial hoopist twirling around and around to Christina Aguilera’s ‘Hurt’, bathed in light by the giant pink heart which illuminates the back wall of Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. They were followed by a dancer dressed like a Barbie spinning round a pole to Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’ as her girlfriend cheered her on from a front row seat.