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Chicken feet simmer in a soy based broth as my concentration boils over. I’m in unfamiliar surroundings, in love with the chaos. Beauty is embodied through BBQ smoke-filled streets as my comfort zone is punctured. At times, we have an…

Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why was released to mixed reactions. Many defend its bold take on suicide, depression and mental illness. Others have blamed it for the horrific suicide of their own children, claiming that despite the warnings of…

O’ sacred place of Córdoba, You exist because of Ishq, Ishq that’s wholly eternal, Which does not come and go, Muhammed Iqbal - The Mosque of Córdoba. I'm moving through the dark, Of a long black night, Just moving with the moon,…

There is an expression in feminist circles that once you put on the 'violet tinted glasses' (or had your 'feminist awakening') there is no going back. You will not be able to enjoy popular culture, politics, sex, motherhood, relationships…

The video game industry is booming, but it repeatedly comes under scrutiny for what appears to be the persistent sexualisation of female characters. Many critics have assertively spoken out about how strong female video game characters are…

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was born in Buda in Hungary on the first of July 1818. Nowadays Buda and Pest form a single city (Budapest), but that unification wouldn’t happen for another 55 years. Ignaz was the child of an ethnically German…

This week, Donald Trump made some inappropriate comments about Irish journalist Caitriona Perry, the Jobstown six were found not guilty, and Brid Smith became the first TD to speak publicly about her abortion. Ed Sheeran also announced a…

Theresa May dreamed it would come to this. With the foresight of the truly fretful politician, she invoked the mythic links between Toryism and Unionism in her speech on the day she became leader of her party and the unelected prime…

The reactionary right wing has had a massive resurgence recently. Figures like Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, and Katie Hopkins are finding fame by spouting ‘Un-PC’ rhetoric and ‘triggering’ the left. At the same time a generation of…

Much has been written in Irish media of late relating to questions of privilege, intersectionality and call out culture. We had Frankie Gaffney's opinion piece in The Irish Times, an open letter in response to this, the comments from left…