As we return from Reading Week to realisation of how little reading we actually completed, week 8 offers us a variety of events to distract us. This week is TCDSU Rainbow Week, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, and there …
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Drag queens in the making at Q Soc’s ‘Lip Sync For Your Life!’
Kicking off Rainbow Week yesterday, Q Soc hosted an intense lip-syncing battle to start this campaign week with a bang
This week is Rainbow Week in Trinity College, and what better way to get people involved than with an intense lip-syncing competition? Last night’s ‘Lip Sync For Your Life!’ event, hosted by none other than Trinity’s Q Soc, was a …
TCDSU continues to push for greater availability of gender neutral bathrooms
SU President Kieran McNulty launches petition to extend access to gender neutral bathrooms to TBSI
Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) President Kieran McNulty has launched a petition for the College Board to create gender-neutral bathrooms in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) on Pearse Street following the implementation of three gender neutral bathrooms in …
Pink Training – a weekend of insightful workshops and lip-sync battles
Elle Loughran and Rory Codd reflect back upon the wonderful and wacky weekend at the LGBTQ USI training course
Pink Training, a crash course in LGBTQ issues held by USI in University College Cork over the last weekend of November, consisted of a series of workshops, talks and social events for LGBTQ students and allies, from Non-Binary 101 to …
Trinity and Identity: Sexuality
In this series, Trinity Life Editor Úna Harty attempts to bridge the gap between Trinity students and their relationship with different aspects of their lives.
Sexuality is possibly one of the most complex aspects of the human race. It underpins a large part of how we interact with our peers and can significantly contribute to a person’s well-being; from personality traits to lifestyle choices.
At …
Pinkwashing co-opts LGBTQ progress to bolster the political establishment
While the Yes vote was a victory for the LGBTQ community in Ireland, it is being used to entrench many other forms of oppression.
It is approaching a year since Ireland became the first country to legalise marriage between people of the same gender via referendum. Speaking in Dublin Castle after the result was announced, Enda Kenny declared, “All people will now have an …
SU joins movement against ban on MSM blood donation.
After passing a motion at December’s SU Council, Samuel Riggs sets out Trinity’s campaign against the outright ban on gay men donating blood in Ireland.
Transmasculine feminism, or “how to reconcile male privilege as a female to male feminist”
There are a lot of intersectional feminists who will give trans men free passes when it comes to acceptable feminist behaviour, passes that they would never give to cis men. I don’t accept these free passes.
I glance at my phone and see a red number – fifteen – in the corner of my Twitter app. I don’t even have to open it to know what I’m getting notifications about.
About a month ago I made …
SU and Q Soc hold new training day to raise awareness of LGBTQ issues
The event is a condensed version of USI’s annual weekend workshop, Pink Training, and consisted of 6 hour-long workshops.
