What happened at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival? If you paid even the slightest attention to this year’s edition of the renowned festival, you may have heard of the controversy that surrounded the screening of Okja, the latest feature film by Bong Joon Ho (Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer). If you have not, here is…
To use an old cliché, unless you have been living under a rock, by now you’ll have learned that Theresa May’s Conservative government and the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland have decided to form a coalition government. I’ve written a few paragraphs in my time but that last statement might be the most far-fetched….
Ideological and cultural alienation of conservatives in our society has effects that go beyond personal frustration. One of its vilest effects is the rise of alternative voices that pushes for extreme beliefs more openly than ever before. People who feel estranged by a world that is becoming more and more liberal each day do not…
The one takeaway from the 2017 general election in the UK that we can all pretty much agree with is that Theresa May has almost completely bungled it. Her Conservative Party had a thoroughly broken Labour Party as its main opposition, they had a majority government and they started the campaign with a massive lead in the…
It’s hard to write an editorial for a features section; the whole thing is basically an editorial anyway. Consequently, this will be as much a love letter as an editorial, enjoy. Writing this feels as close as I will ever become to being one of the string quartet who played on the deck of James…
Happiness is the state of being happy (no seriously, that was the best google had to offer), but it does nicely segue into the topic of how happiness changes from person to person. For some it’s oodles of money, for some it’s their children and families, for others it’s as simple as a lie in…
I’ve been living in Cork for almost seven years. I moved down here in early September 2009, seventeen years old, terrified that I’d hate it, that I’d know nobody, that I’d miss my home too much. College was what drew me here, it becoming home is what has kept me. When Sadhbh from Where Wishes…
I am addicted to helping other people. Doesn’t sound like an awful thing, right? Not always, no. But when one takes on more than they can handle, not being able to say no can become a problem. You know when you go into an interview and the people on the other side of the table…
Lately I’ve been thinking quite a lot about getting comfortable. As in, staying in situations that may not be the best for us because it’s comfortable. A very dear friend took it upon herself many years ago to teach me about the joys of human economics, a nugget of wisdom that has proved invaluable throughout…
Ellen Murray is a 23 year old trans woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the founder and current chairperson of GenderJam NI, a trans youth charity, and she is the Youth Support Coordinator for SAIL, a trans family support organisation in the region. She specialises in healthcare and education advocacy, and is involved in…