writer, lecturer in religious studies, journalist-commentator, national radio-award winner. Poems in places. Fan of Jung.
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May 14
…’Yes,
I’m a difficult person
to endure, I hardly manage.’
- Leila Chatti
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Four years ago today was the last of three radio shows on @rte - thanks to @talktojoeduffy that permitted open discussion on gender identity. I was one of the speakers (c.42 minutes in). It was one of the most frazzled weeks of my life. Remember? RTÉ were called to appear before an Oireachtas committee, those of us who spoke voicing concerns about gender were compared to Putin on @IrishTimes by Una Mullally. We were demonised, trashed, and ultimately all discussion was silenced. RTE @rteliveline are now running scared and haven’t allowed open discussion since.
dj.rte.ie/radio/radio1/livel…
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This weekend is the Seán Dunne Literary weekend at @LafcadioHearn1 gardens in Tramore.
Seán Dunne (1956-1995) was a poet from Waterford City - and was a major inspiration for me when I moved here in 2014. Wittgenstein in Ireland is from his Collected poems, published by Gallery.
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Some of the best thinkers and speakers on the gender identity issue are Irish - Glinner, Helen Joyce, Stella O’Malley, Emma Hilton, Anya Palmer, James Esses… and now MJ Murphy has confirmed she too is Irish.
(Sorry if I’ve missed others - feel free to add to the list)
100% Irish
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Jun 13
The Most Powerful Debate Technique
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Jun 13
The painter and New Yorker contributor David Hockney has passed away, at the age of 88. To celebrate his life and work, here are some of his covers.
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Jun 12
‘The idol, anchored from my point of view, serves as a mirror of my own desire’ - Stephanie Rumpza, Phenomenology of the Icon
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Goodbye David Hockney 😥
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Jun 12
Sorry to hear of the death of the artist David Hockney. His self-portrait, aged 17 in 1954, hangs in the David Hockney Gallery at Cartwright Hall, Bradford, one of Yorkshire's less-well known galleries, but a gem.
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Jun 12
Any suggestions for what to do when your workplace asks you to fill in ‘diversity’ criteria and there is a category ‘gender identity’ but no option to select ‘none’ and no category for gender (understood in Irish equality legislation as the sex binary male-female)?
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Jun 11
Holy smokes Gary!
I have to admit, I didn’t see that coming.
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Jun 12
I actually just updated my book while thinking about this exact issue.
The phrase “gender critical” is something I’ve largely accepted without questioning it.
But saying humans can’t change sex isn’t a gender-critical belief. It’s a statement about reality.
The label itself can unintentionally reduce an observation about biology to just another competing ideology.
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Jun 10
How to Deprogram from Ideology
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This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.
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Jun 10
When @natty_ice2010 got kicked out of her running club right before the Boston Marathon because she dared to criticize the fact that Boston admits men into the women's category, I told her we'd start our own.
So we did. It's called the @xx_xyathletics Team Women Run Club.
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Jun 11
Religion and the modern world.
Gaudí died 100 years ago. Gaudy drones today making Gaudí in the sky, godlike.
The building looks beautiful but the artist - the individual - elevated above all.
A Gaudí siempre le preguntaban cuando acabarían lss obras, y el siempre respondía que su cliente no tiene prisa.
Para Antoni Gaudí, que murió tal día como hoy, hace 100 años, ingresado en un hospicio porque lo tomaron por un mendigo tras ser atropellado por un tranvía, habría sido un sueño saber que el Papa, los Reyes de España, el presidente del Gobierno y de la Generalitat, el alcalde de Barcelona y una larga lista de autoridades estarían, un siglo después, rindiéndole homenaje y mirando al cielo para ver cómo se iluminaba la torre de la iglesia más alta del mundo.
La epopeya de la Sagrada Familia, 144 años en construcción, y que aún no ha acabado, ha tenido uno de sus días para la historia con la solemne ceremonia religiosa que ha culminado con la bendición del Papa a la Torre de Jesucristo.
Otro momento que hará que la imagen de Barcelona dé la vuelta mundo, con 9.000 personas dentro del templo y 130.000 en el exterior
Y lo de los drones eso ya no se como expresarlo, mejor verlo.
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Jun 10
#VisitaPapaRTVE | León XIV, sobre el perdón: "perdonar no significa dejar que alguien siga haciendo daño ni olvidar como si nada hubiera pasado. Significa no dejar que el odio se convierta en dueño de nuestro corazón".
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