It’s a question I’ve grown used to hearing since around mid-2020 when after years of identifying as bisexual, I declared to many of my friends something along the lines of: ‘Fuck men. Fuck my multiple heterosexual past relationships (in which I thought I’d met the love of my life in some arguably mediocre men with drug problems). I think I’m probably gay.’
Read MoreIf you don’t know who Che Guevara is by name, you almost certainly know his face. Emblazoned on t-shirts around the globe, the pop-art print of the revolutionary’s face has become a staple of capitalism and fast fashion.
Read MoreNew year, new me? Why we need to stop putting so much pressure on a New year’s resolution diet. Whatever the reason be it environmental or health, or most commonly weight loss, thousands of us every year try to adopt a new diet in the new year.
Read MoreYour energy is precious. It belongs to you, and it's the only thing you've got to make your life go the way you want it to. Do not waste time investing in people who don't invest in you. This goes for family members, friends, lovers, work colleagues, everyone. It's not about being selfish, and it doesn't mean that you don't care for/love certain people.
Read MoreSerial killer documentaries are oddly marketable. Netflix has of course capitalised on our grave fascination, as in December ‘The Ripper’ premiered on the platform. The four-part docuseries details the murders of 13 women from 1975 to 1980 at the hands of Peter Sutcliffe, better known by his alias, The Yorkshire Ripper.
Read MoreJanuary heralds a time to shape the incoming year with promises of striving to be better, getting healthier and achieving goals. The next 12 months stretch out in front of us, a clean slate just waiting to be written on
Read MoreWith the arrival of the Coronavirus vaccine, we have seen a dramatic rise in scepticism surrounding the jab. Often, this scepticism has been aggressively dismissed as anti-vaxxing. People who have shown the slightest bit of concern as to what the vaccine contains and its potential long-term side-effects have been accused of being uneducated and, often, of halting the process to getting over the pandemic. This scepticism has not, however, been attempted to be understood.
Read MoreThis year though I went down a research rabbit hole when my mum told me that she had heard about Reindeers eyes changing colours and wanted to know why. I read about their feet, their antlers, their noisy tendons. I learnt about their subspecies variation, their eating habits, reintroductions in Scotland. There was a lot, but I’ve picked a couple of my favourites. So, strap in for some of the reasons why I think reindeer are awesome.
Read MoreAs a young woman who has battled an eating disorder, please don’t tell me to lose weight this month, this year, or ever. Please don’t tell me that I need to shred or burn off the Christmas food that I so heartily enjoyed over this festive season. Please don’t continue to allow diet culture to make me believe that my body needs to change with the New Year.
Read MoreWe are often challenged to step out of our comfort zones. We do it without considering the very possibility that it might not be a great idea. I am convinced that this challenge often does not come from within
Read MoreWe may be in and out of lockdowns and different tiers for some time. Theatre needs to adapt to these conditions, with smaller, socially-distanced shows, but also with productions that reflect on our experiences of the pandemic in a subtle and imaginative way.
Read MoreMy parents laughed when I told them I’d seen somebody in my room. My mum told me I’d been reading too much Harry Potter—and I had to admit, it did look like a Dementor. But her breezy explanation never satisfied me. Although I was, at that age, obsessed with the boy wizard, I didn’t believe my enthusiasm for Hogwarts was enough to cause waking hallucinations.
Read MoreThis rabbit-like inability to be sick is sadly not evidence of a super-human immune system, nor is it an indication that I possess what my friend Eve would describe as the hardy ‘stomach of a goat’. Instead, it’s the result of a life-long and exhausting struggle with severe emetophobia – one that, up until the recent pandemic, I believed I was finally overcoming.
Read MoreDisability is something that is still deeply misunderstood and feared. The narratives that surround it are either of victimisation or martyrdom. Disability needs to become normalised. For this to happen disability needs to become an everyday aspect of people’s working lives.
Read MoreGenderfluidity, even among trans and non-binary spaces, is frequently misunderstood. “Sometimes a man, sometimes a woman” is a common phrasing and while that is one possibility, it is a gross oversimplification of an enormous breadth of experience.
Read MoreBreast implants or the, ‘Boob Job,’ has been the number one cosmetic procedure carried out for the past 13 years, in the USA alone 300,000 people opted for the procedure in 2019. But many are not aware of Breast Implant Illness and the impact it can have.
Read MoreBynner and Ficke had more than proven their point: they’d successfully demonstrated that anything (even drunken creations about pleasuring oneself) could be passed off as high culture if you tried hard enough.
Read MoreWorry ruins lives, it wastes time, energy, and resources. It gives nothing back and saps the joy out of life. So why do we do it? Worry doesn’t rob tomorrow of its sorrow, its saps today of its strength.
Read MoreI’ve suffered from pelvic nerve pain for five years now, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to pinpoint the feeling of being free from any form of mild discomfort or searing agony ever since I was a teenager. As a 25-year-old cisgender woman from Ireland, our healthcare services have had numerous scandals over the last few decades relating to treatments for people who identify as female.
Read MoreAs a police officer, I dealt with quite a few and knew I would. Some police forces arrange for their young bobbies to attend a post mortem supposedly to get them used to seeing a dead body. What a load of bollox! Most times the police’s involvement with a dead body is simply when someone, usually elderly, has died at home in their sleep.
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