Mentioning Down Syndrome is a dirty pro-life tactic
As the Irish referendum looms, more and more dirty tactics have emerged from the pro-life camp. With the aim of persuading the country to vote against repealing the 8th amendment,…
Friendship is vital for your mental health, regardless of gender
Intimate female relationships are absolutely central to the lives of countless women, and yet there has never been a point where we have felt the need to assert our own…
Let’s invest before England goes emotionally bankrupt
We have a crisis in the way that we deal with mental health. This seems to be a pretty universally accepted truth, and while writing this article has some selfish…
Why do we romanticise child bereavement?
Legal & General, a mainstream insurance firm, has recently run a series of ads focusing on life insurance. I encountered my first such ad walking down the street to Aldi,…
13 Reasons Why Not
When the first season of ‘13 Reasons Why’ was released on Netflix, it became one of those shows that was more obligation than choice. Everyone had binged it, everyone was…
Capitalism has found a way to commodify mental health
Self care is everywhere. It’s the new trending hashtag, and marketing ploy. You can hardly open Instagram without being accosted with images of pamper evenings with conspicuously placed products, emblazoned…