The biggest impact any of us can have is to work collectively to pressure governments to regulate major corporations and invest in sustainable infrastructure. Absolutely cycle to work, cut down your beef consumption, and bring your own cloth bag to the supermarket. But the real change needs to come at regional,…

Because capitalism is entirely predicated on growth and the powers that be don’t want to sacrifice their ability to accrue terrifying amounts of money in order to redistribute the economy so it can sustain itself without growth. We are not over-populated. We have more than enough food, even on country- and…

It sounds like you might benefit from even a session or two of just venting talk-therapy. Like just a quiet, comfortable room, a box of tissues, and a sympathetic professional ear who will never gossip about what you tell them. You don’t have to pursue it to the (inevitable or not) end of a divorce, just use it as a…

If it makes you feel better, there’s a good chance he’s married twice because, like many serial rapists, he’s likely to be a skilled manipulator one-on-one, and ruthlessly abusive to keep his victim from being able to say no to things he wants (such as marriage). As opposed to, women actually like him better than they…

Interesting question! The people of Northern Ireland broadly supports reforming the abortion legislation to be in line with either the rest of the UK (up to 24 weeks on medical grounds including mental health grounds, in practice, few women are refused), or with Ireland’s new proposed legislation (up to 12 weeks…

If it makes you feel better (worse?), a different pro-choice group was cross about it because these sorts of big public stunts cause cops to crack down more on the pill-smuggling and the pills are vital. But I agree with you, and with ROSA; this was an impressive attention-grabbing protest and nothing gets done…

Not only hard right, but strongly socially rather than economically conservative. And awful. But yes. Although I’d argue May didn’t HAVE to do anything, she should never have played jenga with Northern Ireland just to cling to her ill-gotten mandate.

This is literally how the Repeal referendum happened here (in the Republic of Ireland). Exit polls measured that the biggest single influence on people’s votes was “hearing personal stories” of abortion. A comedian (Tara Flynn) and a journalist (Róisín Ingle) publicly told their abortion stories early in the campaign.…

Feck and fuck are just two different words, mo chara.

Kelly, thoughts on Meghan’s tights? It’s today’s Royal Bullshit!

The most powerful agent of change in our referendum, as measured by exit polls, was “hearing personal stories”. That, plus a few politicians who were brave enough to stand up as pro-choice, plus a grassroots campaign of committed women. But y’know, it still took a long time and at least three women died. Speak up,…

The UK is currently deporting a black man who saved two people’s lives in a fire in Manchester so ... probably they are not going to do the least they can do after ruining much of Africa.

Don’t let anyone tell you how to feel. Leaving college is exciting and it’s a big achievement, but it’s also absolutely a loss and an ending and a scary transition, especially if you have any regrets or might-have-beens. Let yourself feel whatever feelings you need to, let yourself be sad or disappointed or worried if…

Sure we all thought the turnout would be low and it was on a knife edge until like, yesterday! And in fairness, it wasn’t an easy sell, not at all, it was a hard, gruelling, complicated sell, but people listened to all our stories and pleas and arguments and bought it. Yay!

I’m so unbelievably proud of Irish women tonight! And men, because our husbands and brothers and fathers voted Yes in high numbers for us too. It was male politicians who got to stand up and make speeches and announcements, and fair play to them for (finally) doing it, but it was female activists who fought and won…

It’s hard work but I’d say it’s more soul-bruising than soul-crushing. Because you do it hand-in-hand with other women, and you protect one another and help one another heal. For years, we’ve been going to marches together, and standing beside one another, and offering one another tissues, and taking over arguments…

Girl I’ve been crying ALL DAY! Everything’s making me tear up: #hometovote, my elderly grandfather voting, the President tearing up himself, seeing the results coming in for real, that mother and daughter who were separated by the nuns because she was an unmarried pregnant girl and they found each other and voted Yes…

Today was a long, relieved, tired, proud celebration, tempered by sadness for Savita and for all the women we knew or didn’t know who were adversely affected by the 8th. Some died, some were mildly inconvenienced, most were in between those two extremes. So it wasn’t an all-out party and there were a lot of emotional…

Your mouth to the Pope’s hypocritical ears.

And he wasn’t elected by the people, but by his own party. But still!