Category Archives: Wen’s Take

As temperatures soar, Kate Metcalf argues that climate adaptation must include the women most affected by overheating homes, caring responsibilities and climate inequality.

Wen Co-director Kate Metcalf reflects on hope, community and collective action, and why small acts of care, connection and nature matter in challenging times.

Kate Metcalf reflects on how conflict, genocide and militarisation deepen the climate crisis, undermine food security and place the heaviest burden on women, particularly marginalised and racialised women.

This Women’s History Month, Kate Metcalf reflects on feminist environmental activism, collective action and why this work continues beyond March.

Zarina Ahmad reflects on the past five years of the Just FACT programme – the impact it has had on communities in Tower Hamlets, and how it has shaped her as a leader.

Kate Metcalf reflects on decolonial feminism, climate justice and how Wen is embedding care, shared power and community leadership in its work.

Zarina Ahmad reflects on rest, resilience, and community power in 2025, showing how care and solidarity fuel feminist climate action.

COP30 could be a turning point. Wen’s Zarina Ahmad explains why women and Indigenous leadership must be at the heart of climate action.

After 35 years of campaigning for safer, more sustainable period products, Wen is taking our Toxic Tipping Point campaign right to the heart of government.

This month, Zarina Ahmad, Co-director, focusses to Palestine, a place where the intersections of gender, health, race, and environment are not abstract, but lived daily, under occupation and now, genocide.