Like most women, for 7-10 days a month I am bleeding from my vagina. I don’t particularly think periods are talked about all that much but I’m an open book. From blood clots to leaks, I like to share it all with the people around me. So in honour of my period starting yesterday I… Continue reading Period Hacks
To all you women out there I want to say a few things. Today is special because it’s a day dedicated to us. It celebrates us on a worldly basis and raises awareness to the fact we are not always celebrated. However, Women should not just be valued on one day a year. Every single… Continue reading International Women’s Day
After an incredibly heated discussion with my Granda about equal rights for women and feminism I am left, again, feeling disgusted with the human race. My Granda is a logical man, prone to a little sexism, racism and religious views shared with his generation in Ireland. He’s a loving, protective and highly intelligent man but… Continue reading Speak Up
The recent outbreak from Ryan Williams on how women should “hold it in” couldn’t have come at a better time for me, a time at which I’ve been getting increasingly more worked up over the lack of open discussion about periods. Williams is so badly educated he isn’t even aware that women’s periods are in… Continue reading Girl Talk
This week’s lecture and seminar were about iconography in art, something that is extremely important as an art student when critiquing artwork. I found it interesting, however, it was something said by a fellow student in a follow up seminar that led me to write this post. The particular painting we were referring to at… Continue reading Seminar Thoughts
Feminism, a term widely interpreted and misunderstood, has cropped up quite a lot for me within the last year. Maybe it’s because I moved from home for university and was surrounded by different types of people as my home town is largely made of clones or maybe it’s because faminism and the fight for equality… Continue reading Am I A Feminist?
Wild One 