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Junior Sophister Politics and Economics student, Sam Kelly is one of three candidates running for the position of Entertainment (Ents) Officer in the 2023 TCDSU elections. Having founded his school’s well-being committee, and formerly sat on their student council, Kelly …
Have you ever talked to a friend about masturbation? Like, really talked? Masturbation is taboo, and the intricate ways we do and do not pleasure ourselves don’t tend to arise organically in daily chit-chat. In part because silence breeds stigma …
Government have announced Dr Andrea Johnson and David Cagney as the co-chairs for the national review of state supports for PhD researchers.
The appointment follows Harris’ announcement last month that a government review of PhD supports would take place.
Announcing …
Pleasure for people with vulvas is often misrepresented in the mainstream, leading us to internalise a lot of unhelpful lessons about our bodies. Most of us have to spend time unlearning those lessons, much to the detriment of our collective …
Filling the feeds of Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok, it is impossible to have missed the images of Kim Kardashian donning Marilyn Monroe’s iconic gold gown for the recent Met Gala. It has also been impossible to miss the fact that …
A picture came up on my newsfeed recently: two people were sitting opposite each other and each had a speech bubble above them. One bubble contained a tangle of different coloured threads. The threads reached across into the other bubble, …
Expressive arts psychotherapist Dr. Rachel Hoare keeps a box of miniature symbols in her therapy room; religious tokens, a skeleton: “Some things that are quite disturbing,’ she states. ‘I’m always collecting wherever I go.” Dr. Hoare discusses one of her …
Every child of the DVD generation knows the ad:
“YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A CAR.”
Its battered font, flashing imagery and downright infectious background music are carved into our collective consciousness. While its aesthetics have had lasting impacts on us, the …