Alexandra Ages is a Policy Specialist with the Government of Alberta. She was previously the Executive Director for the Council of Alberta University Students. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from McGill University and was a member of the Broadbent Institute’s inaugural Emerging Leaders Program in 2023.
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
Profits become supreme despite the enabling of a destructive culture of consumption around physical appearance, the erosion of the gains of feminist movements where looks are made more valuable than liberation, and where youth conceptualise ageing as an aesthetic problem rather than a wonderful part of life’s journey.
The “trad-wife” and “hustle-bro” subcultures are a phenomena of the social media age, and a symptom of late-stage capitalism.
