Category Poetry
Poetry: Advice
To every new parent who’s been on the receiving end of unsolicited advice, which is everyone, let’s be honest.
Raising Feminists #3
The panel at Raising Feminists #3
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Finally handed in my essays , so study over until September. And now, time for more reading. Think I’ll start with the Argonauts, got it for Christmas but haven’t got round to reading it yet.
Day in the life of a #togetherforyes supporting, book loving, feminist mammy. 1. Go to work 2. Find that your letter advocating for a Yes vote has been published in the Irish Times. 3. Continue working. 4. Take child one to the dentist where it’s discovered he has MIH. 5. Google MIH. 6. Take child one to soccer. 7. Go home 8. Go and see your favourite writer and feminist Chimamanda Adichie and get your most favourite booked signed by her. 8. Admire the beauty of Dublin on a bright summer’s evening and go home with a song in your heart 💜
Similar to Kate Middleton in so many ways, here is me not long after giving birth. Items of note : specially purchased nightie , radio in the background which played Ray D’arcy all through delivery, youthful glow of a thirty three year old who until then had only one child and has aged considerably in the intervening 5 years. #memories #inthecornerofmymind #nofilterjustdrugsandadrenalin
Monday morning lolz over on the blog this morning. I’ve noticed anti-choice campaigners talking a lot about abortion regret lately. Women who have children also experience regret , and suffer from depression and poor mental health. Where are the pro life supporters campaigning to improve the conditions of motherhood ? #linkinbio #togetherforyes #repealthe8th
There's a referendum coming in Ireland, on May 25th. You might have heard it being referred to as a referendum on abortion. This is not strictly true. It is a referendum to repeal an amendment which removes a person's human rights on pregnancy. You don't need to be in favour of abortion , to vote yes for Repeal, you need to be in favour of compassion.
This is Ireland:
1992. A girl, aged 14, raped by a friend of the family. Pregnant, unable to access abortion in Ireland, her parents plan for her to travel to England. They tell their local Gardai, enquiring about paternity testing on the aborted foetus in the case against the accused rapist. The Gardai inform the Director of Public Prosecutions and the case is escalated to the Attorney General. The girl is forbidden to travel, and having already done so, she and her parents return to Ireland. Despite the suicide risk to the pregnant teenager, a judge in the High Court deemed the greater risk was to the foetus. In an appeal, this decision was overturned and the girl was permitted to travel for an abortion. She miscarried whilst in England.
Savita Halappanavaar. Pregnant with a much wanted child, sadly miscarrying in a hospital in Galway. Her health rapidly deteriorating, and although the foetus was no longer viable, whilst there was a foetal heartbeat doctors were unable to perform any medical interventions which would have saved Savita's life. Savita died in 2012.
A married couple, parents, given the devastating news that the foetus they were carrying had a condition that was incompatible with life. Their choices are no choices at all. Carry on, in Ireland, waiting. Knowing your child will not live outside the womb, having to smile and nod when people ask when you're due, what you're having. Or travel to the UK, and carry the remains of your longed for child home with you on a RyanAir flight.
All these things and more are happening because of the eighth amendment. If we want to stop stories like this, if we want to stop this suffering, we have to vote to repeal the eighth amendment. Compassion is all you need, to vote yes for Repeal. #togetherforyes
Me and my gal and our plaid shirts.
Happy Saturday folks. May you be as joyful as a four year old with a new t shirt and leggings and her brother’s hand me down hoodie.
Haven’t done one of these for a while , but the sun is shining and I’m heading into town to the theatre with my lovely mother in law @kearnph , so here is my face.
