I see my vagina every day. Gynecological examinations might not be part of my morning routine, yet every day, from the second I step into …
Prostitution as the Fine Print
When Nickelodeon Met Reality
In the faith-forgotten land they told me the wooden door marked EXIT was a dead-end of copper brick and blackened flowers. Frozen under four walls …
dystop(m)ia
Day 1 I guess I’m writing this because I have nowhere else left to turn. I always wanted to become a writer of some sort: …
Living in Shades of Cool – A Complicated Relationship to the Colour Blue
The colour blue prominently features throughout Lana del Rey’s music career. Her lovers exist in shades of blue; they seem to love her in blue, …
The Importance of ‘Then Barbara Met Alan’ and Revolutionary Disability Representation
Throughout history, the media has always portrayed disability negatively. Among the most recent additions to inadequate disabled representation are SIA’s music, and movies like Me …
Coraline
My other mother told me of her obsession with insects, their movements and the incomprehensible minuteness of their brains and wrote about them as if they were …
Naming Season
It is the 9th of November, 13:50 my time, and I am still in bed. Well, technically, I have been out of bed already today …
Yevgeny Zamyatin: The Grandfather of dystopian literature
We all know that George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, is considered an archetypal text in the dystopian literary genre. We’re taught that Orwell …
Not an Artist, but a Story-Teller: An Interview with Sínead Áoife Ní Tomás
On fashion, photography, art, and Ireland. On my computer screen, Sínead Tomás is sitting in a clean and bright room on the edge of a …
Utopia on a Knife Edge
In 1516, Thomas More penned Utopia, in which he describes an idyllic land where private property is abolished, healthcare and sustenance are free, and there …