By Imasha Costa Not knowing about a place could be scary, not understanding what a service or an organisation does could also make it even more terrifying. Today’s Bystander features an interview with Margo Noonan, Head of the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) in Cork. SATU is renowned for its discretion for victims of sexual…
By Imasha Costa, Editor-In-Chief On Wednesday, 6th of October, UCC Student’s Union had to turn away students from their food bank as they ran out of food to give. Speaking to Asha Woodhouse, SU President, she recollects her experience from that day. ‘I remember when we started, there was loads of food there. I was in…
By Imasha Costa As of Monday, 20th September, the Higher Education Institutions of Ireland launched the #UnmuteConsent campaign in a way to drive a positive conversation on consent and a way to end sexual violence and harassment. Sexual violence and harassment is a problem within higher education campuses and is often under-reported. This campaign was…
By Imasha Costa With the announcement of the university returning back onto campus, the hunt for accommodation has taken students out of their comfort zones, in the hunt for a place to live, whilst attending in-campus lectures. Cork City has seen an increase in the students’ demand for accommodation. Cork students nearly spend the summer…
By Imasha Costa On Friday the 3rd of September, UCC’s Bystander Intervention Programme launched its national campaign as training initiatives for staff and students across Irish Higher Education Universities. UCC’s Bystander intervention aims to raise awareness of not only the importance of safe and effective interventions, but also encourage staff and students to become active…
By Imasha Costa, Arts & Literature Editor It’s ironic how a few lyrics from one of my favourite musicals define the past year, and how time cannot be measured, especially for those who have been silenced by the shutdown of theatres all across the world (well, except Australia). Rent, an award-winning musical by Jonathan Larson…
By Imasha Costa, Arts & Literature Editor Art has always been placed as a male-centred form of expression where the male gaze is represented, and the pieces that are famous are usually those of men. With the surge of social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter, visual art has evolved itself, which has further allowed …
By Imasha Costa – Arts & Literature Editor Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo Winner of the Booker Prize in 2019, this book dives into the lives of twelve British women, most of them black, as they move through the world in different decades. The novel looks not only at their struggle, but the love…
By Imasha Costa, Arts & Literature Editor Sonder: the realisation that each passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. To a group of emerging writers in UCC, this was the perfect title for their newly published zine Sonder, which showcases poetry and short fiction, and reflects the mentality of empathy…
When I first moved to Ireland, I was very adamant to immerse myself in the culture, the art, the music and get a hang of the slang and the ideas that were growing at the time. I was always a massive fan of reading (you could argue that I still am), and had a major…