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 Julie Landers During the first lockdown, I made a zine about toast. It was something small, nothing that would cause a seismic shift in bread-eating discourse. But it was the act of concentrating on something that I liked, slowly cutting and glueing together a small handbook of sorts, that provided a sense of profound…
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 Claudia Schwarz Most New Year’s resolutions never make it to February, but maybe a late one will last the distance. Instead of simply setting yourself a quota of books to read per week, why not make it more entertaining. I have listed a few fun challenges that could get the ball rolling! Read a…
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 Mia Poland One thing that David Attenborough has not reported on this year is that the LGBTQ community has been stripped of its natural habitat. The clubs have been closed due to an invisible enemy leaving the Irish queer community at an awful loss. The performance arts have been heavily impacted by the fluctuating…
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…
By Claudia Schwarz Everyone warned me, but I refused to believe them: studying literature could potentially destroy your love of reading. So here I am, desperately trying to take my mind off of my pile of assignments by getting lost in Philippa Gregory’s fiction. But I can’t. My mind keeps wandering and I have lost…
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…
Burning Copper By Imasha Costa, Arts & Literature Editor this copper that lingers in my blood rules me, turning me into the person that i am. i learned how to embrace the copper within me, allowing the sunlight to escape and flourish within every cell inside of me; igniting the fire that had been asked…