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Aoife Martin

Aoife Martin is an IT professional and outspoken advocate for trans rights. She trended on Twitter once and has been dining off the glory of that ever since. In her spare time Aoife enjoys wrestling her unwieldy book collection into shape and having opinions on film. She can be found babbling away on Twitter where her handle is @aoifemrtn

Literature

Book Review | Is Monogamy Dead? by Rosie Wilby

Aoife Martin Apr 20, 2018 0

I hadn’t heard of Rosie Wilby before her book Is Monogamy Dead? landed on my desk. That sounds so quaint. Let’s be honest, the book was sent to me via email and I forwarded it to my Kindle so that I could read it at my leisure. Welcome to…

Literature

International Women’s Day | Author Pseudonyms

Aoife Martin Mar 8, 2018 0

One of my favourite jokes in Blackadder occurs in the episode titled “Ink and Incapability” of Blackadder the Third in which Blackadder mentions to Baldrick that he wrote his novel under a female pseudonym because “everybody’s doing it…

Literature

Book Review | Louise O’Neill’s Almost Love

Aoife Martin Feb 24, 2018 0

With Valentine’s Day just gone, what better way of celebrating love in all its glory than by reading Almost Love, the upcoming novel from Louise O’Neill. Confession time: I haven’t read either of Louise O’Neill’s previous two well-received…

Gaming

#MeToo | Is There A Reckoning Due for the Gaming Industry?

Aoife Martin Feb 14, 2018 2

It was inevitable that #MeToo would expand beyond the movie industry. You’d have to be a card-carrying, tunnel-visioned member of the patriarchy to think that Hollywood was uniquely shitty in its attitude towards women. Indeed, if you were…

Topical

My Transition Diary #7 | Dysphoria Blues

Aoife Martin Jan 18, 2018 1

Follow Aoife’s Transition Diary from the start here. I hate being trans. There. I’ve said it. I hate being trans. Well, today I do. Today it kind of sucks. There’s nothing special about today. It’s not an anniversary. No one has said…

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My Transition Diary #6 | Tights, Makeup, & A Severe Lack of Pockets

Aoife Martin Nov 22, 2017 1

Follow Aoife’s Transition Diary from the start here Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Transitioning is never easy but, having lived in both male and (now) female roles, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some differences…

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My Transition Diary #5 | Transphobia & Online Abuse

Aoife Martin Nov 8, 2017 2

Follow Aoife’s Transition Diary from the start here. I wanted to try something different with this column. As an open trans woman online, like most women, I am sometimes subjected to abuse and trolling. In order to keep myself safe I have a…

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My Transition Diary #4 | Deed Polls & Oestrogen

Aoife Martin Oct 11, 2017 0

Follow Aoife’s Transition Diary from the start here. You wake up minutes before the alarm goes off. You’ve had a restless night, tossing and turning. Your anxiety about today had, as it always does, spilled over to your sleep. You get up…

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Why I’m Marching For Choice As a Trans Woman

Aoife Martin Sep 28, 2017 0

"You're a mutilated man, that's all. Self-mutilation..." - Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage) "A man who gets his dick chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself." - Germaine Greer "Some countries…

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My Transition Diary #3 | ‘They Buried Her In A Suit’

Aoife Martin Sep 20, 2017 0

Follow Aoife's Transition Diary from the start here. My Transition Diary #3 | 'They Buried Her In A Suit.' I had intended writing about something totally different for this column but then, as it will, something caught my attention that…

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