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Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Humour, News, Personal, Women on Oct 25th, 2011
Like many women, on an average day – in other words, pretty much every day – I don’t bother wearing make-up. I turn up for work with my blemishes unconcealed, my cheekbones uncontoured and my eyelashes unlengthened. I do the school runs and the supermarket slogs with unglossy lips and without any light reflecting off [...]
Posted in Bereavement, Family, Guest Posters, Personal on Oct 13th, 2011
Sinéad Keogh on what her grandad taught her about life and loss. Driving with my Granddad is my predominant memory of being a kid. Driving across The Wicklow Gap in the passenger seat of the car, being terribly impressed by the drop down on one side. Work driving – travelling around in the cab of [...]
Posted in Personal, Web Stuff, Work, Writing on Oct 12th, 2011
At the Tweet Treats launch, Twitter kept popping up in conversation. It being a book created through Twitter – it’s a cute stocking-stuffer with 140-character recipes from celebrity Tweeters, profits going to charity – that perhaps wasn’t surprising. Perhaps more surprising was the mix of attitudes towards it (in between wishing people had name-tags with [...]
Posted in Personal on Oct 10th, 2011
It has come to my attention lately that I must be quite heartless. For the second time in 24 hours I’ve been left wondering if I’m somehow lacking or just not quite getting it. Case one, the unfortunate – indeed tragic – early death of Steve Jobs that has whipped up a maelstrom of grief [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Personal on Oct 7th, 2011
Is there anything that doesn’t have its own occasion these days? Daffodil Day, Arthur’s Day, Heritage Week, Book Week, Culture Night even Fish ‘n’ Chip day. Some of these are awareness raising, some are nothing more than marketing ploys. They seem to work in that the public masses go out of their way to focus [...]
Posted in All About My Mother, Anti-Heroines, Blast From the Past, Family, Feminism, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, Women on Sep 30th, 2011
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. [...]
Posted in Humour, Music, Parenting, Personal on Sep 26th, 2011
Last week was the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’, which I mostly celebrated by not feeling a need to wear all my dad’s clothes at once or thrash around my bedroom in a hormonal rage. I did listen to it, though, just to see what it sounds like now. The lyrics seem a little confusing, [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Personal, Writing on Sep 26th, 2011
It’s 3.30am and I’m standing with my face pressed against the kitchen window. I don’t know why I’m drawn to stare out into the dark, maybe because it seems to answer back. Next door, someone’s watching TV, their window blind flickers in shades of grey: ash, then slate, and back. The big spruce blocks the [...]
Posted in Administration, Personal on Aug 12th, 2011
So, the Anti-Room is taking a little break for a few weeks. Don’t worry, we will be back, but as the Anti-Room is an unpaid labour of love that we run in addition to our day jobs and, well, lives, we just need a bit of time off. We are very proud of this site [...]
Posted in Anti-heroes, Anti-Heroines, Body image, Education, Feminism, Ireland, LGBTQ Issues, Media, Personal, Politics, Sport, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
“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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