); We can t keep sending trans people abroad for major surgery with no aftercare when they get home
The Irish healthcare system is failing transgender people and forcing them to go abroad for treatment, Noah Halpin has said. By Órla Ryan Friday 5 Mar 2021, 6:30 AM Mar 5th 2021, 6:30 AM 19,775 Views 0 Comments
Noah and Fionn in Poland
Image: Noah Halpin
Image: Noah Halpin
THE IRISH HEALTHCARE system is failing transgender people and forcing them to go abroad for treatment, an activist has said.
Noah Halpin, the new Community Aid Officer with Transgender Equality Network Ireland (Teni), has called for the current model of care to be updated as a matter of urgency.
International Women s Day takes place on 8 March
Celebrating together while apart has become very important in the last year. While we cannot attend physical events for International Women’s Day 2021, here are some virtual options being hosted as part of the annual movement.
National Women’s Council (NWC)
The National Women’s Council is hosting a Zoom event entitled
Women Doing Politics Differently at 11am on Thursday 4 March.
In 2020, the NWC examined the representation of women at local government and those findings will be released and discussed during this year’s webinar. The National Women’s Council has found that women are still underrepresented in local government, making up just 25% of all councillors. Speakers at the event will include Claire McGing (gender and politics researcher), Peter Burke (Minister of State for Local Government and Planning) and Perry Artitua (executive director, Women’s Democracy Network Uganda Chapter).
Karen Osborne’s debut science fiction novel,
Architects of Memory, came out in September last year. The pandemic has done a number on my ability to recall detail, so only impressions remain: I enjoyed it, I remember, even if it had a few too many sudden revelations, betrayals, and double-/triple-crosses for me to entirely follow.
Engines of Oblivion is a direct sequel to
Architects of Memory, albeit from a different point of view.
[Spoilers for
Where
Architects of Memory hewed close to the perspective of Ashlan Jackson, dying of an incurable illness that it transpired was turning her into a weapon that many of the corporate polities that rule over the human-occupied galaxy would do nearly anything to possess,
I’ll tell you one thing about contemporary American high-school or high-school adjacent stories: I find the social dynamics baffling. Even the healthiest ones seen to have a solid underlay of oneupmanship and bullying predation, and in general, they seem pervaded by an air of casual, normalised cruelty that for all the awkwardness and social isolation of my own school years strikes me as alien. There’s something vicious about the American high-school story, and it’s present in far too many portrayals for there not to be a core of truth behind it.
The Scapegracers is Hannah Abigail Clarke’s debut novel. It shares the background of casual cruelty of most American high-school stories, although its focus is on sudden, unanticipated friendship and the brutality, loyalty, kindness, cruelty, cleverness, and power of adolescent girls than on school
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