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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 15
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Irish Times
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- Jul 5, 2026
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A Bigger Life by Louise OâNeill: A willingness and openness to surprise at its best (opens the original)
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There are a lot of rules about how women are supposed to love, and author Louise OâNeill has heard them all. From her mother, from TikTok, from endless discourse about attachment styles, boundaries and emotional unavailability; and from increasingly bleak declarations that heterosexual dating is essentially a humiliation ritual. In A Bigger Life, OâNeill wonders what all these rules are doing to us. The memoir begins in the aftermath of the breakdown of OâNeillâs formative relationship w
âMy friend group ganged up on me - did I deserve it?â (opens the original)
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I am a woman in my late 30s and I am at a loss as to how to act around two friends after an incident where I felt ganged up on. They are trying to sweep it under the rug because drink was involved. However, I feel so humiliated that I donât know how to be around them. We went for dinner with a close male friend of theirs, who said about his partner: âNot that sheâs a r****d, but her English isnât great, she could try harder. She is lazy.â The remarks were jarring, but I didnât make a
âMy husband and I lost weight together â but heâs put it back on and Iâm losing attractionâ (opens the original)
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I am 36 years old. I met my husband online in 2018. When we met we were both overweight and, when we started getting serious, we started focusing on getting healthy together. We joined a weight-loss class and a gym, and started hiking and did the odd walking holiday and generally became that annoying âfitâ couple. When we got married in 2022, we had lost a combined eight stone. Since then, Iâve kept the weight off. I love being fit and healthy and we had started talking about getting pregn
My partner wants to buy a house but Iâm scared of living out his dream, not my own (opens the original)
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I am a gay man in my late 20s in a long-term relationship. I love my partner, I truly feel I have met my soulmate and best friend. My boyfriend is a few years older than me and this is where the (very few) sources of friction in our relationship tend to come from. He is further along than me career-wise and financially, and he is interested in buying a house in the next two years or so. I can see why this is an important next step and I am saving money with the general aim of doing this with him
Changing Gender by Susan Stryker: A work of extraordinary energy, hope and emotional force (opens the original)
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Trans theorist and activist Susan Stryker has long understood the radical possibilities of undoing simplistic narratives and redefining binary terms. Her seminal 1994 essay identifying with Frankensteinâs monster rejected reductive, stigmatising definitions and instead explored the monster as a figure of power, of possibility, of self-definition. In Changing Gender, Stryker is still interested in how we create new forms of existence, but her tool is something seemingly much, much duller: gramm
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