The happy tears started for me Thursday evening as #hometovote took off, because that really gets me. All day yesterday and today, there were so many things that brought a tear to my eye. The absolute worst was the women who found each other, thirty years after the daughter was taken away from the unmarried mother by…

Oh my god Cork East ye were making us wait!! Can’t complain, though, cause the high turnout was brilliant.

It was mildly sunny here yesterday so a solid 10% of the country is furiously sunburned today!

I imagine your country is absolutely perfect, yeah? And whenever your country has succeeded in overturning an unjust law, you celebrate by dire reflection on your failures because that’s helpful and motivating.

Thank you!! I got a bit emotional (for the 43,980th time today) coming back from the celebrations and seeing these posts and gifs!

Thank you!! I’m glad you’re here, I know I said I’d let ye (all) know and I was worried you (specifically) wouldn’t see the post!

Thank YOU for the work that you do. I imagine it’s not always easy, but it’s important. We’re here and we’re not going away, and I’m sure we’re going to get pushback now as we get the legislation through and I’m sure we’ll have the graphic protesters outside the maternity hospitals when abortion is finally accessible…

The RTÉ exit poll has just been announced and it’s almost the same: 69.4% Yes with a 1.6% margin of error. I think we might have actually done this!! My feet are killing me from canvassing, my ears are ringing from the stuff that was shouted at me, my eyes are tired from crying, but I hope to sleep very well tomorrow…

But it’s ridiculous to pretend that these problems are because of “everyone’s” individual lifestyle choices, rather than the short-term profit-driven consumption of major corporations. We make enough food!! We have enough space!! We know how to solve loads of these problems!! It is completely ridiculous to expect 8…

Thank you very much for the discussion and the solidarity! It’s really interesting to explore these things across cultures and countries.

Ah it was because you opened with “White women too”, so I thought it was white Americans generally.

I’ll try to remember to come to Saturday Night Social and give an update! We vote next Friday, polls close at 10 pm (Irish time, which is same as GMT), and if it’s not close, we’ll kind of know from exit polls soon after. The count starts at 9 am on Saturday. We paper vote, every vote physically checked, counted,…

I actually get a sort of cognitive dissonance with Asian Americans! Because all but one of the Asian people I know, living in Ireland, are actually from China or Japan or Korea, only one was Chinese Irish and identified as Irish. Because we only really got inward migration in my lifetime! There were only two students…

It was all white Americans, although it’s not a fair sample since more white Americans visit than Americans of colour. It was more men than women, but a few women too, although they would usually at least start with a question about it, rather than just coming right up and telling you!

It is exhausting! I literally called after one of them, who shouted at me as he went past, “you can’t vote here so I don’t care about your opinions!”

Here in Ireland we’re just over a week away from a national referendum on whether to remove the constitutional protection of the “right to life” of the unborn. The debate is nasty and, unlike last time we did this in 1983, very informed by evangelical American anti-abortion rhetoric as opposed to our home-grown…

My solution to this annoying problem is as follows:

It sounds like it might be important to her? I’m generally pro everyone-keeps-their-names, but if she brings it up over and over, maybe make some time to sit down and talk through it with an open mind?

“I got drunk and loudly kept telling people I hoped that woman was having fun and I’d like to meet her.” You are a hero and I would drink with you at a wedding!

THANK YOU! I get so annoyed by “yes no but yes I DID happen to choose the normal, patriarchal choice, but but but I personally had a Reason(tm) so it’s actually totally still feminist thanks!” Like it’s okay to change your name if you really want to, but it’s not feminist, and it doesn’t uphold feminism, and it does…