The Anti Room

We’re back, with our sixth podcast! We’re joined by Jennifer O’Connell, June Caldwell and Dearbhail McDonald to discuss the highs and lows of 2012, from the Olympics to the Savita tragedy.. Share this:EmailFacebook

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I stumbled into a quandary in my first year of Uni. I was sharing a house with three other students – all male – who suddenly upped and left because I was so impossible to live with they had found a bigger gaff they could share with their own friends. For some reason, I found [...]

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A note from the editors: This is the first in a new regular series of posts, All About My Mother, in which Anti-room writers reflect on the women who made them the women they are today. Some are their own biological mothers, some are not. But all are important. This month my mum turned 70. [...]

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Perhaps the most distressing statistic emerging from the current economic crisis is that the suicide rate in Greece is reported by the Wall Street Journal to have risen by at least 40%. The Greek collapse is described as a financial catastrophe of their own making but with soaring unemployment, harsh cuts to education and healthcare budgets and [...]

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“I DON’T KNOW which of us is worse off,” said my aunt. She felt growing up that she had no choice but to marry and have children. “But I look at you and my girls and you have so many choices that it must be difficult to make one and not feel you are missing [...]

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Beyoncé by Alexi Lubomirski for Harper’s Bazaar In an interview in Harper’s Bazaar Beyoncé says feminism is natural to her and that it’s what she lives for and yet she doesn’t feel it’s necessary to define it. She thinks feminism needs a new name. “I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? [...]

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I’ve just started reading a book. Normally, I would wait until I’d finished reading a book before offering it – and my thoughts on it – up for you to consider. But I feel this book deals with such an important subject that I can’t wait until I’ve finished to talk/write about it. This book – “Unnatural [...]

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Perhaps you took notice of The Daily Mail’s report on a poll conducted among 2,000 women over 40, which found that ladies felt invisible once they turned 46. Their opinions no longer mattered once men stopped paying attention. Nevermind the idea that visibility and holding opinions remain hinged upon such a fickle conditional as one’s [...]

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I was visiting friends a few weeks ago, and it turned out that I’d be there for the Manchester Slutwalk. They were going, with some other people, so I decided to join them. (I even made a placard). If you’ve had your feminist-news antennae switched on lately, you probably know what Slutwalk is (Wikipedia article [...]

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Try to imagine a media feature about a woman choosing to gain 50 pounds without an alarmist frame ,one unaccompanied by quotes from health care practitioners, pie charts, pearl clutching, all of which fail to conclude that the lady in question has lost the plot altogether.  Also imagine that said married lady’s husband is not [...]

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