By Roisín Noonan Whether you are a first-year student experiencing Cork city for the first time, a foreign exchange student experiencing Ireland for the first time, or a Cork native, Cork city and it’s surrounds has something to interest everyone. When I first arrived in Cork as a student from Limerick, I was clueless to…
By Maeve O’Keeffe As a woman and a feminist, tackling gender stereotypes from a female perspective is a consistent priority of mine. In this column, I have discussed how toxic masculinity and sexist rape myths can affect women. However, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that men are also frequent casualties of…
By Billy O’Connor The line between cultural appropriation and appreciation has long been a blurred one. Oftentimes, it is talked about in terms of hairstyles and vernacular regarding black American culture, but a recent ‘trend’ has brought to the forefront an under-represented and under-appreciated practice that is sacred to Buddhists and Hinduists in particular. While…
By Maeve O’Keeffe “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” – Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi “I am so sick of forking over a tenner just to get into that kip of a club,” my friend moaned during our customary Friday morning debrief in the kitchen…
By Maeve O’Keeffe This article contains topics of sexual harassment, sexual violence and assault. Please skip this article if you feel you may be triggered. We have listed supports at the end of this article. Durham University in England has recently faced backlash after a social media campaign warning students that “Drink Spiking is dangerous…
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 Maeve O’Keeffe Perhaps you were born with an innate desire to work in a certain job. You popped out of the womb, and just like that, had your calling to become a data analyst, Geography teacher, or civil engineer. OK, maybe you weren’t born with this knowledge, but perhaps it was evident from an…
By Roisin Noonan The terms “imposter syndrome” and “perfectionism” are by no means unfamiliar to any of us. From celebrities to artists, poets to playwrights and singers, even the most famous and talented among us confess to experiencing them. Michelle Obama, Jennifer Lopez and Emma Watson have all confessed to feeling like an imposter at…
By Roisin Noonan By now we are all well accustomed with the term “self-care” and all that it encompasses. We millennials are even sometimes referred to as the “self-care generation”. In a world where we whizz around every day on an endless merry go round of work/study/exercise/eat/sleep/repeat, there is no doubt that self-care…
By Maeve O’Keeffe The term “girlboss” was coined by Sophia Amoruso, the founder of Nasty Gal, a fashion retailer that she grew from an eBay store aged 22. When Amoruso published her 2014 memoir, #Girlboss, which was adapted into a Netflix series, the term suddenly became part of the modern workplace vernacular, emblazoned on coffee…