Photo by Kallum Linnie ‘Wholeweat tortilla, please. Brown rice. Chicken. Black beans and veg. Salsa. Sour cream. Chilli. Guacamole. Cheese and some lettuce, please.’ ‘That it, love? That’ll be nine euros.’ The front of the line is the worst place … Continue reading Shanaia like Shania Twain A Personal Essay On Sex, Sexuality, and Big City Blues
Photography by D Sharon Pruitt of Pink Sherbet Photography Sometimes, having a physical form is excruciating. I know it sounds like a silly thing to say, but I imagine that, on some level, it’s a relatively common experience. I feel … Continue reading Sitting with uncomfortable feelings Realising that our default individualism and obsession with productivity are characteristic of late stage capitalism alongside other realisations.
Photo by Séamus Carroll Sitting in a cafe, on a bus, on a park bench, and virtually anywhere else there are people around. You begin to notice what people are doing. Not subscribing to any wider philosophy other than to … Continue reading People watching, by a people watcher Searching for the everyday extraordinary
Photography by Séamus Carroll. I’m on campus with my abuser: I started studying at Trinity last year, doing a degree I thought I would love on a beautiful campus, with notions of divinity surrounding me. I had earned this; worked … Continue reading My Abuser on Campus My Experience
Photography by Peggy MacHale. Back in foggy January, I decided I was going to be an au pair this summer. And, after too many hours labouring over a bilingual, hyperbolic, and regrettably sycophantic account of my will to care for … Continue reading Summers of Silence Au pairing, isolation, and your relationship with yourself when you’re away from your relationships
Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash. In the weeks leading up to my interrail journey, I was apprehensive. My friend and I decided to take a leap of faith and go by ourselves to minimise drama, much to the shock … Continue reading Relationships of a Different Kind: Interrail Edition I may be unhinged enough to publish intimate details about my life in a student publication, but I’m not unhinged to the point where I included real names!
Photo by Nikita Kachanovsky on Unsplash. As far back as I can remember, I have been playing video games. While I have come to accept the grim reality of being labelled a ‘gamer’, a term mashed through ten layers of … Continue reading The Games That Made My Childhood the earliest game that I remember playing wasn’t on a console. It was an unhinged game named Bush Royal Rampage, in which you played as both George W. Bush and the Queen of England smashing through London taking down terrorists shooting-gallery style.
Illustration by Linde Vergeylen I have fallen in love, not for the first time but the second. And it is because of your second love that you realise, that you can, indeed, fall in love again. That love is not … Continue reading Second Loves A personal essay on the beauty of what comes after your first love
Art by Linde Vergeylen. The first time I got Covid, I was just barely, barely emerging from my first heartbreak. That week, serendipitously, the one in between Christmas and New Year’s, was the best thing that could have happened to … Continue reading Unconditional Love A Personal Essay on Finding the Strength to Do the Work that Matters
Originally appeared in print, April 2020. Illustration by Ellecia Vaughan. The sun peeks through your blinds early in the morning. Peace and serenity creep into your body as birds chirp outside your window; the world is beginning to wake. … Continue reading The Truth About Having Seven Flatmates
Click here to read the first instalment: The Dreamer and the Dream (Part One) When abandoned by traditional modes of pleasure and work and company which all amount to – in some form or another – distraction, one is … Continue reading The Dreamer and the Dream (Part Two) CONTENT WARNING: EDs, weight, body image. Please read with caution.
I am looking through Leonora Carrington Paintings. There is a book of them on the table – I think referencing an old exhibition at IMMA: Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist. I come to rest on a painting entitled ‘The Hunt … Continue reading The Dreamer and the Dream (Part One) CONTENT WARNING: EDs, weight, body image. Please read with caution.