slut shaming

I’ve always been notoriously unlucky. School raffles never led to prizes, Murphy’s Law was a good friend of mine, and the odds were never in my favour. It was only when I came to college that things seemed to change. Suddenly, I was the…

This week, Brendan O'Connor was an idiot, Cormac McCarthy was not dead, and lots of people did (or didn't) celebrate Heterosexual Pride Day. 44 people were also killed in a terrorist attack in Istanbul's Ataturk airport when 3 perpetrators…

This week, Wentworth Miller put some bodyshamers in their place, Piers Morgan - well known gender equality advocate and scholar - let us all know that feminism was dead, and Chris Brown continued to be one of the worst human beings on the…

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,…

This week, the 32nd Dáil met for the first time, the Healy Raes had a bit of a dance outside Leinster House, and nobody could decide on a Taoiseach. Other stuff also happened too, like Kim Kardashian posting a nude, producer George Martin…

This week, Kanye released the track list of his new album on Twitter, Kanye misinterpreted the acronym KK, Kanye tweeted seventeen reasons why he was not a fan of Wiz Khalifa, and Amber Rose outed Kanye as her #FingersInTheBootyAssBitch.…