Equality

The global gaming industry was valued at $155 billion in 2020. That's more than the combined value of the TV, film and music industries. It's definitely an achievement but has it been worth it to get to the top of the entertainment…

Homelessness affects a wide variety of people in the United States, but perhaps no group is more at risk than LGBTQ youth. Many LGBTQ youth are left homeless due to discrimination and harassment from family members and have no other place…

I first became aware of International Women's Day in 2010. I had friends in a theatre group and heard through the grapevine that they were putting on a play they had performed before: Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. Some of their…

Fair trade is saving the planet through products and a culture of change. The movement started with one woman, Edna Ruth Byler, who helped poor clothing makers in Puerto Rico. From there, the first fair trade shop, named Ten Thousands…

Remember when people strived to be cool? People used to go out of their way to manufacture an air of coolness about themselves. There used to be a universal understanding that if you remained calm and kept your ego-laden-opinion to…

What used to be the exception is now the rule: women work. In fact, in today's world, many women have become the primary wage earners in their household, either because they earn more than their spouse, as 49% of women now do, or because…

Dil Wickremasinghe shines a light on the latest social justice and mental health stories and hopes to inspire positive social change one conversation at time. Listen to the trailer now, and make sure you subscribe to get new episodes of…

Current events coming out of the United States and beyond are almost unbelievable. Across the world, people are treating each other like, well, shit and it seems as though there’s no way to change it. And, even if you wanted to, it would be…

Yesterday I read something that made my blood boil. In 1939, de Valera's minister for education announced a proposal to cut mathematics as a compulsory subject at the intermediate level (equivalent to the junior certificate). He said that…

I was twenty when this smartly dressed, suave mannered, thirty-something year old man first verbally harassed me in Rathmines as I walked to town from college. He had stopped me to ask for directions and as I started to think out loud,…