When Diana, Princess of Wales got dressed, the world’s media searched each thread of her outfit for hidden meaning. She used clothes to help her to communicate, in a life…
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For those fluent in the language of the internet, a much amended image of a human face and body has fast become part-of-the-furniture, says Kate Demolder. But what does this…
Emily Hourican on victim blaming and how vulnerability in high profile women is treated…
In an historic moment for the US, but also for women everywhere, Kamala Harris became the first female American vice president-elect last evening. Here are some of the internet’s best…
Julia Molony examines how internalised misogyny reveals itself, at times, in the way high profile women’s clothing choices are criticised… When I was very young, I said something during a…
Esther O’Moore Donohoe traces the various phases of life in a pandemic, from the stockpiling yeast stage to the ‘I’m Diarmuid Gavin now’ stage… I could barely contain my glee…
TRIGGER WARNING: References to rape/sexual violence and coercion. Porn, despite its links to anxiety reduction and a healthy appreciation of sexual encounters, has taken residence as the seedy underbelly of…
Louise Bruton on satisfying our need for attention (and other lost social nuances) in the midst of a global pandemic…
Just when you think the internet has generated its funniest, most ridiculous meme, it lobs another winner up. We’re grateful, at this point, for any and all levity that we…
Kate Demolder, on how the mantra of ‘less is more’ still obeys the rules of middle-class consumerism – but has COVID-19 made a mockery of the concept of a life…