This is a response piece to Colm Keena’s article in the Irish Times, published on Saturday June 26th, entitled “Gender Distress, a growing struggle”.
Keena informs the reader that the, “purpose of this article is not to challenge the concept of transgender identity but rather to highlight that there have…
As an outspoken mother of a trans child I regularly get asked for interviews and usually I say yes as long as I can be anonymous. I say this because I want to protect as much of my child’s privacy as I can, and while she has said she’s fine…
Trying to find a gift for the difficult to buy for person in your life (it’s probably a guy, amirite? Why are they so darn hard to buy for?)
These are all under 50 bucks so won’t break the bank either.
I consider myself to be a reasonably confident person, I feel like I mostly know what my strengths are and, (at least some of) my blind spots. Yet the idea of putting myself out there felt really terrifying.
I was ok with carrying a sign saying I felt fine about…
Remember me? Some of you have no doubt forgotten me, I was probably just another girl in the crowd whose boobs you grabbed as she walked past, a hand up a skirt in a busy nightclub, a nameless, faceless piece of flesh you called a slut and shouted out the…
Prime Time on RTÉ dedicated an entire show (broadcast on 22.01.19), to transgender people. …
Please use the bits you want from this for your own letter. RTE apparently treat copy and paste letters as 1 complaint so feel free to use bits of this but make sure you personalise your letter too. The email address is complaints@rte.ie
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s hatred of one another was so intense it now has it’s own TV show. I can’t relate to Davis’s joy at pushing someone down the stairs. For all other people have hurt me I would not want to hurt them back. …
“Witch, bitch, slut, whore, murderer, cunt, up-yourself, dangerous,show-off, cult leader”
These are some of the names I’ve been called in the last few years by both men and women. (The murderer part was for speaking about my experience of abortion). …
I’ve been trying to unpack the art of self-sabotage, since I think I’ve perfected it. I wish I hadn’t. I wish I had instead perfected the art of feeling-worthy-while-succeeding-at-life but maybe everyone who gets to that place has had to go through this bit first? Maybe ‘that place’ is sparsely…
