Social media has been an important tool for activism, but when activism becomes something that we demand of people, especially those in the public eye, it is in danger of being performative

"...in all the arguing about the good men and the women who are asking for it, and the sons who would never do anything like that and the daughters who need to be taught to be careful, it feels like nothing ever changes..."

"We can all guess at what we would do but until it actually happens, no one can know for sure"

'The insistence that gender is an immutable fact of biology seems misguided to me. If that is true, how do we explain babies who are born intersex?'

To have an unfulfilled desire feels safer than to try your best and for things not to work out the way you had hoped

'Surely public money would have been better spent on addressing the growing rates of disordered eating?'

As the days grow longer and snowdrops peek their heads above ground, dare we hope that spring is coming?

'We want to believe that we have some control over our lives, that if we take certain steps we can avoid danger.'

My partner and I are still looking for a house in Dublin. I want somewhere like home

We say their names aloud. Sarah Everard. Sabina Nessa. Ashling Murphy. And we wonder which one of us will be next.