VERITY BUTLER: I TRULY BELIEVE THAT WITHOUT THE INTERNET, WE WOULD BE A LOT FURTHER BEHIND AS A SOCIETY
his issue is our biggest FEED quarterly yet, but we haven’t just been growing the magazine – we’ve been
growing our staff, too. Verity Butler, formerly operating in the background to keep FEED on course, has joined full-time as a features writer and supervisor of all
things digital. We hope some of you will get to meet her in the coming months, and we invite you to drop her a line to say hello and congratulations!
NAME? Verity Meta Butler.
dreams, so you can watch them back the next day – with a nightmare filter, I don’t want to see those again! I want to recall flying around on a giant spoon and having a deep political conversation with my dog in high definition! WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING LATELY? Money Heist . I was late to jump on the trend, but am so glad I did. It’s ridiculous, but brilliant. I’ve also become a bit obsessed with The Circle , as it eerily reminds me of signing into Microsoft Teams when working remotely in the pandemic.
JOB TITLE? Digital and features writer.
LANGUAGES? English.
WHERE WERE YOU WORKING BEFORE
YOU STARTED AT FEED ? Before I entered the FEED - scape, I was travelling around Vietnam with my best friend. Prior to that I was a barista in a tiny coffee shop, and prior to that I was studying at Newcastle University. WHAT DID YOU DO THERE? I studied English literature and Classics, so plenty of reading. I’ve been obsessed with both subjects for pretty much my whole life. When it came down to choosing which one to take, I couldn’t. So I did both. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE INTERNET WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE YEAR 2050? It’s easy to say it will look more dangerous and frightening than it already does. But I want to be optimistic and think about the good things it offers now – and that it could offer in decades to come. It provides a voice, diversity and discussion to anyone who can freely access it. So, I’d like to think, as freedom and
VIDEO GAMES OR BOARD GAMES?
Board games – although I am partial to the occasional game of FIFA. Does Sims 4 count?
COOKIES OR CAKE? Cookies.
CITY YOU MOST HOPE TO VISIT? It’s a tie between San Francisco and New York City. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO MOST AS PART OF TEAM FEED ? I think purely the satisfaction of seeing the finished product of this funky and chunky magazine, that we all work so hard together to create, four times a year.
access increase globally, we will see more and more voices and platforms surfacing; and that it can eventually provide a voice to people who may not feel like they have one right now. I truly believe that without the internet, we would be a lot further behind as a society. It is electric with BLM
discussions, LGBTQ+ protests and #MeToos – and I love it for that reason.
WHAT TECHNOLOGY OR DEVICE DO YOU
WISH SOMEONE WOULD INVENT? I would love someone to invent something that records your
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