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Activists + Innovators Series: Blessing Dada
In our live series, Activists + Innovators, we speak with Blessing Dada, a 21-year-old mental health advocate who campaigns for intersectional approaches to mental health and learn more about how we can #RISEUP for mental health reform.
Questions on housing: What does art have to do with housing and cities?
As we analyse the Government’s recent plan to address the housing crisis, this three part series aims to consider what questions are worth asking ourselves surrounding housing, and why.
Questions on housing: Could we be the “architects” of affordable housing?
As we analyse the Government’s recent plan to address the housing crisis, this three part series aims to consider what questions are worth asking ourselves surrounding housing, and why.
Questions on housing: What does housing mean to us?
As we analyse the Government’s recent plan to address the housing crisis, this three part series aims to consider what questions are worth asking ourselves surrounding housing, and why.
Hong Kong protester convicted in first trial under harsh security law
On the 30th of June 2020 Chinese legislators unanimously passed a new national security law which asserts jurisdiction over those who are not residents of Hong Kong and those who had never set foot within its borders.
IT Carlow’s Students Weekly Features STAND
IT Carlow’s student newspaper, ‘Students Weekly’ has launched its first print publication and featured STAND and its programmes.
How the viral song ‘Enjoy Enjaami’ captured the untold stories of landless Tamil farmers
The song from the state of Tamil Nadu in the very south of the Indian subcontinent was an instant hit and inspired hundreds of covers, song reactions and personal dance videos.
Irish housing: homes for people not for profit
The legacy seems to remain of a land that does not provide viable opportunity or quality of tenure to its people, and so watches them set sail for countries happy to welcome the hard-working Irish with open arms.
Sexism wins gold at the 2020 Olympic Games
Gymnast Suni Lee amazed the world when she won the all-around gold medal with lash extensions and a set of acrylic nails applied. The fact that she completed a gold-medal routine without even so much as breaking a nail is insanely impressive in itself, but we must think critically about the society we live in, in which a world class athlete felt it necessary to compete with these additional obstacles in the name of appealing to the unattainable beauty standard expected of women.
Portraying women in the media
So why does one-dimensional coverage of women in media matter? Newspapers and magazines inform people’s views and opinions. It affects how we as society see women unconsciously. When the media furthers the perception of women as sex objects, that has knock-on consequences throughout society.