Shadow and Bone’s Fantastical Adaptation
Deputy Entertainment editor Chloe Barrett discusses Netflix’s recently released adaptation based on the bestselling novels while exploring its integral theme of resistance. Leigh Bardugo’s fantastical world, commonly referred to as the ‘Grishaverse’, has had two epic seasons on Netflix, with the latter having been released only a month ago. Within it live unforgettable characters, intricate […]
The Tigray War Revisited
Deputy Current Affairs Editor Tiarnan Ó Ruairc discusses the civil war that nobody is talking about. A country born out of defiance; the only country in Africa not colonised by a European nation. In fact, to quote an Ethiopian woman during these interviews ”we [Ethiopia] scrambled for Africa too” a reference to the famous book […]
Poetry – Dystopian Prayers
By Tomiwa Morris Scold me not O treacherous mind. I tried to forget. But the bullets of their spiteful words triggered me. So now l am back to endure the eerie dystopia I so badly wanted to escape. Where I will defy and resist you in that cold, familiar chapel. I’ll repent for running away […]
‘A Monument More Lasting than bronze’: Ultima generazione’s fight against the eco crisis
Contributing writer Chiara Alessio discusses the reasoning behind various actions of the modern climate activist movement ‘ultima generazione’ along with outlining their symbolic and artistic resistance against the climate crisis For millennia, humans tried to come to terms with their own mortality: that meant finding ways to potentially overcome it. Thus, monuments, family and art […]
“It’s an environment of you brush it off and get back to work” – Workplace Sexual Harassment in Cork’s Nightlife Scene
Deputy fashion editor Sinéad Mckeown explores the unsavoury truth about working in nightlife in Cork. Sexual Assault and Harassment in Cork City Nightlife TW: Discussion of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Earlier this year I launched a survey that was targeted towards employees of bars and nightclubs in Cork. The results show that many bars […]
Interview with Ríon Hannora
Fashion editor Justine Lepage chats with Ríon Hannora, a Cork-born emerging designer and stylist who is all about creativity, sustainability, and breaking the norms of gender and age in the fashion industry. The fashion rebel tells Motley all about styling CMAT, her unconventional design process and her adorable “scrap babies”. Rion’s identity as a designer […]