sexual abuse

In the wake of some extremely disturbing allegations which have surfaced in the last few days this is an extended episode in which we discuss our experiences of misogyny in Irish comedy and how we all have our part to play in changing a…

I have been faithless for the entirety of my adulthood. As a teenager growing up in the Parkhead tradition, I carried Catholicism like a banner, believing in God because he was our god, the Irish god, something that our postcolonial…

Dublin band MUNKY recently released a song titled 'One in Five'. All proceeds of the track are being donated to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, including 1\5th of their EP proceeds. The song itself was written in response to sexual assault,…

Sunday night saw the beginning of the awards season frenzy leading up to the Oscars, starting off with the Golden Globes. In light of recent sexual assault allegations within Hollywood and the wider entertainment industry, the awards…

Hey … ugh. 1. Louis CK’s Sexual Misconduct Last week years of rumours came to a head when the New York Times published the accounts of five women in front of whom Louis CK masturbated or asked to masturbate. CK admitted to his actions in…

In May of 2016, the breezy, indie rock troupe Real Estate announced that one of their founding members, Matt Mondanile, would be departing from the band. At the time, an official statement had implied the somewhat surprising departure was…

I saw his friend dancing like a mime all night. I didn’t see him until I was flamingo-legged, waiting for my own cara. He approached me. I said Guten tag. He told me I was wrong: Morgen. Maybe I should add one more thing to the above list:…

I'm watching a “casting couch” porn video called “Latina Painal.” FYI 'painal' = painful anal. It's a massive genre (23,741 results in free-to-access Porntube). The casting couch thing is also a huge genre. There are 9,736 casting…

"An example of rape culture? When Brock Turner raped an unconscious girl a lot of people had sympathy for him because he was a swimmer in Stanford. The whole thing seemed to be more focused on the fact that he was a swimmer with a lot of…

Remember Kesha? Of course you do. She’s that multi-award winning, glitter-loving, animal rights-supporting, LGBT activism-doing pop singer. Way back when, she had that Tik Tok song that everyone loved, and that album that seemed to be…