Recent Articles
A (belated) Happy Pride & some links
Last weekend, I watched the Dublin Pride parade wind its way through our small city. It’s the first ‘normal’ parade since 2019 and that feels (at least to me) like another lifetime. In honour of the season, I read Adrienne Rich’s infamous essay on compulsory heterosexuality.
Are Irish streets safe for LGBTQIA+ people?
It has been a gruellng week for Ireland’s queer community* Or at least, it has been a grueling week for me. I have tried to write a longer, more eloquent thing but I’m not ready to yet. It is, as they say, still processing.
“This is never going to end, is it?”
I was sitting down to dinner with my girlfriend as news of the new Omicron variant broke. As we took the lids of the tupperware and smelled the steaming curry, my heart sank.
The Covid 19 pandemic will lead to a loneliness pandemic
As Ireland responds to the Covid 19 crisis, the policy responses and media narrative has focused on families, older people and the economy. But another vulnerable group has been mostly ignored: people who live alone.
Millennials aren’t entitled. They’re screwed.
It’s time to stop criticising the generation who came of age during the economic crash
The New York Review of Books was right to fire Ian Buruma
Fintan O’Toole recently wrote that the departure of Ian Buruma as editor of the New York Review of Books (NYRB) should worry anyone who values freedom of the press. Buruma left his position after publishing a piece written by disgraced Canadian broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by more than 20 people.
