In a recent round table discussion held through University College Cork, author Elizabeth Anderson explained American politics as a graph where one axis is about policy and the other is about culture. She explained that even though things like a higher minimum wage or universal healthcare are widely popular across…

Why was I born a European-American instead of a Native American or an Irishwoman? I’m detached from the land. I will never belong in the places I live or live in the places where I belong. I am so uncomfortable in my white skin with my American accent. What is this hybrid person that I represent? This offspring of colonial violence and heir to white supremacy who can’t even afford to live in the place that her ancestors stole for her?

Buildings and Ruins as Physical Sources of Memory Today I as I was walking along the road in Clonakilty, Ireland, I noticed how I tend to stop and gaze at the old crumbling walls or abandoned structures along the road. I always feel a little embarrassed when I do this…

The sun just came out. It’s shining through my window onto my fern that sits on the windowsill. That one little change in my environment made me feel better. I took a deep breath, I sat up straighter, and I thought, “Okay, maybe I can do this.” Because that’s how…

Here’s a depressing thought: Is it possible that the main reason Feminism in the 1970’s was successful at getting middle-class women out of the home and into the workplace was because corporations realised they could use the extra workers? Up to that point, society figured it needed it’s middle-class women…

Emily Dickinson The volcano Tender music Discovering together This is what I deserve I know it in my gut Is it too late? Because that would be a tragedy Beyond compare Like a world without her poems. Imagine. How many other Emily Dickinsons Will we never know existed? What is it that inclines a person To squelch the life-force of another? Does it scare them? Do they think there is not enough life-force to go around?

I want to find evidence for — and find a way of talking about — the idea that deep memory is important. By deep memory, I mean historic collective memory. I mean what we refer to as heritage, but more. Heritage can have existed in the past 500 years, but…

The Media The media as a tool of governmentality. It’s included in the four pillars of American government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Media. I’m not sure if it’s official. In fact, I don’t think it is taught that way, but it should be. Even in the 18th century, the Founding Fathers…

Maybe I just need to write about myself. Maybe that is just as important as making a research paper out of what I am going through. Maybe I just skip the middle-man and write what I am going through. So working is scary for me. It is related to trauma…