Equality

Phew! What an election, that was fun. It was so long, I drank that much coffee and slept that little my face felt like I was wearing a tea tree peel-away face mask, which is less pleasant than it sounds. Every election that I've been…

What does paedophilia have to do with classism? And should the Irish middle classes be worried? In the submission call by Headstuff.org for articles on equality I never expected to see classism on the list in a month of Sunday coddles.…

When Ireland voted for gay marriage last year, it became the first country to do so via public ballot. It was an important moment in Irish history and in LGBTQI+ history. But referenda and marriage equality are rarely good bedfellows.…

We behave towards one another as if we are equal, but learning about others’ advantages makes us unhappy. This is Leon Festinger’s theory of social comparison. It doesn’t stop at imagined feelings of being short-changed though. Marmot’s…

2015 was a pretty good year. In Ireland, decades of struggle, months of canvassing, and over a million votes finally saw same-sex marriage become a reality. The Gender Recognition Bill passed successful through the Oireachtas.…

This week, the good people of Twitter talked about Charlie Sheen, braced themselves for Storm Barney, and celebrated International Men's Day (kind of). We also watched as it was reported that gunmen had stormed a hotel in Mali, holding at…

Tara Flynn is an absolute legend who appears to be a fan of HeadStuff, which is just very tremendously cool. She joined us on the podcast, but she also wrote this properly excellent article for us. An apology about the first minute…

This week, #ShoutYourAbortion dominated Twitter’s trending topics. Amelia Bonow started the hashtag when she heard that the United States’ House of Representatives voted to stop funding Planned Parenthood for one year. She took to Facebook…

Last week, Dutch pro-choice organisation Women on Waves stated that they had plans to use a drone to deliver abortion pills to Ireland. Soon afterwards, pro-life supporter Cora Sherlock condemned the project, claiming that it demonstrated…

I had to laugh when I saw that #hungoverforequality was trending on twitter in the days after, more accurately the morning after, the success of the Yes campaign. As the global media cast its all seeing eye over Ireland, the Irish were well…