WW20 2019

TAROT

ASK THE TAROT

What do the cards have in store for you?

Illustrations by Jeffrey ompson | Dreamstime.com I am stuck in a job that I hate. to get some more information. day job. You might find it I wouldn’t tell someone that
Lately I’ve had a business I drew the Nine of Pentacles, helpful to get in touch with they can never have their cards
idea. I have always liked the Six of Swords and The Fool. your Local Enterprise Office – read again. To be honest I find
thoughts of having my own This suggests to me that you they regularly run ‘start your that there are a lot of readers
business. Can you tell me if have everything you need to own business’ courses that out there who thrive on the
this idea will be successful and give this business a fair shot offer a strong basis in what superstition associated with the
if I should go for it? and I do see it becoming your you can expect. Good luck. cards and they play up to it. If
LAURA, VIA EMAIL full-time gig in the future, you feel comfortable getting
however the Nine of Pentacles Years ago I had a tarot reading your cards read again I would
I would always advise that no encourages you to be on top which was very accurate, but encourage you to do so. Again,
matter how strongly you feel of everything with regards to the reader told me I shouldn’t I don’t see why someone would
about this idea, that you don’t it. This speaks to setting clear, ever get my cards read again. tell you not to do it. There’s no
make any sudden moves. definable goals. For example, Can you tell me why this is? rule or anything that says that
The last thing you want is to how much money do you want And, if you can, I would love you can’t. The card I pulled for
quit your job and then find to earn in your first quarter? for you to pull a card for me. you was the Queen of Cups,
out that your business isn’t How much money would you ANON which shows me that you are
going according to plan. I have to be earning in order to a naturally empathic (and I
understand that some risks quit your full-time job? I honestly have no idea why would say intuitive person).
are needed when it comes the tarot reader would tell I’m wondering if you’ve ever
to business, but I would When you define all of these you that. I would encourage considered reading tarot
always advise playing the things, you’ll know exactly you to take that with a pinch cards yourself? This Queen
long game – building a strong what targets you need to aim of salt. Yes, there are limits tells me that you may find
foundation for your business for and these will inform the on readings. For example, I you naturally take to it. This
alongside your day job and decisions that you make. The wouldn’t encourage someone card also suggests that you’ve
then gradually transitioning Six of Swords does show you to have a tarot reading every been putting others ahead of
out of it. The cards I pulled for moving on, but in time. Have single day. I usually impose you too much lately and now
you were very promising. Will patience and understand that a three to six-month waiting it’s time for you to focus on
your idea be successful? We you’re building something period depending on the yourself. Make a point of taking
have the Six of Wands, which that will be sustainable for you situation. I do this because I some time that’s just for you
is literally the card of success in the long term. It will take don’t want people to give away in the coming weeks. Also, I
and abundance. It also hints some time for it to pick up the their power or feel as though feel as though you’re seeking
at public acclaim – would this kind of speed you want it to. they can’t make decisions confirmation. If you’ve been
business idea see you having without getting a tarot reading thinking about trying a new
to step into the public a bit The Fool says that the time is first – giving that much of healing modality or wellness
more? This is a really positive right for you to pursue it now, your own personal power routine, this is a strong
card to get. I decided to pull but not to dive in completely. to a deck of cards is never a confirmation that it will hold
a few more cards for you, just Again, look at learning as healthy thing to do. However, significant benefits for you.
much as you can and then
launching it alongside your

PLEASE NOTE: Tarot is not designed to replace any medical or financial advice or your own free will. Tarot can guide you and show you options of what
may happen. Remember, when it comes to making choices, you are the master of your own destiny. Have a question you want Amy to answer?
Write to: Tarot questions, Woman’s Way, Harmonia, Rosemount House, Dundrum Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14 or email: [email protected]

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Health news BOOKWORM Love your YONI

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NEW APP FOR HEALTH NEWS
NEW MUMS
On your bike
New heights The Rotunda Hospital recently announced
a new maternity and neonatal app. Just Eat launched their ‘Cycle for
Rooftop yoga returns to the Marker Hotel ‘Rotundapp’ is the first app of its kind Good’ campaign at the start of the
in Dublin from May 18. Located on the to be launched by an Irish maternity month and there’s still time for you
seventh floor of the hotel, Marker Rooftop hospital and focuses on all aspects of to get involved. Running until July
Yoga offers yogis and yoginis a chance pregnancy care. The app offers relevant 10, Just Eat will donate 10 cent from
to get some fresh air and switch up their and medically accurate information on every Just Eat dublinbikes journey
routine. Led by yoga instructor Dani Sheil all stages of pregnancy and encourages taken in Dublin to the Peter McVerry
and her team, the classes will take place women to engage with their health Trust. The goal of ‘Cycle for Good’
every Saturday morning from 8.45am to and wellbeing during their pregnancy. this year is to achieve 1,000,000
10am throughout the summer. Suitable for Speaking about the app, Professor Fergal journeys over the course of the
all levels, each class costs €25 for non- Malone, Master of the Rotunda Hospital campaign, moving 10 people out of
residents. Mats and blocks will be provided said: “In recent years, there has been homelessness in Ireland.
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HEALTH

A NEW LOOK
AT ANXIETY

Author Nicola Bird offers us a new perspective
on this common mental health condition

“I have anxiety,” is said by us that we really needed to that Father Christmas was real valid questions that we
twice as many Irish women start behaving better because a ‘thing’ have just vanished. need to answer in our minds
as men. Forty three million Father Christmas was Without you having to do a NOW so that we can relax
people across the US and drawing up his naughty and thing. and stop worrying. It looks
the UK would say the same. nice list round about now. Myth: There is a thing called like there is information in
I was one of them. For over And we would nod our heads Father Christmas and you an anxious thought.
20 years I struggled with in agreement. better behave or else. Truth: In fact, the more
chronic anxiety, stress and Truth: There is no such thing anxious we feel, the
panic attacks. I stopped He unquestionably became as Father Christmas – no more distorted and less
going on trains because there a ‘thing.’ need to do anything on his trustworthy our thinking
was no way to get out if I behalf. becomes. If we know this,
needed to. I stopped driving After all there were we stop taking the content of
on motorways for the same pictures of him so we knew Like that older sister, I’d it so seriously when it shows
reason. On several occasions what he looked like, our like to share a few myths up. We can ignore ourselves
I had to stop working and a teachers and friends all about anxiety that, if you instead of jumping in and
few times it was so bad that I talked and behaved as if he really take some time to trying to respond to the
couldn’t even leave the house was real so we responded consider them, mean you’ll stories it’s telling and then it
or pick my children up from accordingly. no longer have to cope, passes without us having to
school. manage or deal with it any do a thing – because that’s
We made our beds all more. what a thought does. WW
Every single specialist through December, we tried Myth: It looks like we are
I met would listen to me to be nice to our sisters and scared of events, people and A Little Peace
describe my symptoms; the on Christmas Eve we put out circumstances in the world of Mind: The
racing heart, the sweaty mince pies and whiskey and so in order to manage this Revolutionary
palms, the inability to catch on Christmas morning we thing called anxiety, we have Solution for Freedom
my breath, nod their head could see the evidence of his to start avoiding the things from Anxiety by
and say, ‘Yes, you have existence. Not a single doubt that frighten us. Nicola Bird (Hay
anxiety.’‘I have anxiety.’ in our minds because after Truth: Nothing outside of House UK, €14) is
Given a name, anxiety was all, everyone said he was real us can ever make us feel available now
now a ‘thing’ to be reckoned so it must be true. anything. Instead all that’s
with. To be coped with, to happening is a scary thought
be managed, to be overcome. But then one day our older arrives in your head and
And then, all of a sudden, I sister tells us he doesn’t it brings with it a scary
realised that it wasn’t a thing exist. We resist and fight the feeling. It has nothing to do
after all. And with that it idea of this business because with what’s going on in the
disappeared. No techniques, we have a LOT invested in outside world.
no strategies, no practice believing he’s real. But she’s Myth: Everything we think
required. opened up this question in is true. ‘What if we get stuck
your mind and as you start on the train?’, ‘What if
Let me explain: Every to look, you start to see that that headache is something
December when we were she’s telling the truth. more serious?’, ‘What if my
young, our parents took us children aren’t safe?’ are all
to one side and reminded The pieces fall into place.
And the next December, all
the activities and behaviours
that all came from the belief

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Nom, nom, nom

Low calorie recipes
that are high on taste

Cuban beef Serves 4 2 red peppers, deseeded and cut into strips
500g piece of stewing beef (all visible 4 garlic cloves, crushed
Prep time: 10 mins fat removed) 2 tbsp tomato puree
Time Variable (see below) Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tsp ground cumin
417 kcal per serving Low-calorie cooking spray 1 tsp dried oregano
Weekly Indulgence 2 onions, sliced ½ tsp ground turmeric
Freezable 240ml beef stock (2 beef stock cubes 2 bay leaves
Gluten-free (use gluten-free dissolved in 240ml boiling water) 1 tbsp fresh coriander, chopped
stock cubes) 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes 1 red or white wine stock pot
2 green peppers, deseeded and cut into 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
56 WOMANSWAY.IE strips Cooked rice, to serve (optional)

RECIPES

HOB OR OVEN METHOD Veggie Mix the mashed potato and a ball of dough and comes away
• 2–2½ HOURS burgers vegetables together in a bowl, from the sides of the saucepan.
1. Season the meat well with then stir in the chopped parsley 3. Add the eggs to the mixture
salt and pepper. Time: 25 minutes and Parmesan. and beat well to incorporate. It
2. Spray a large frying pan 118 kcal per serving 4. Divide the mixture into four will look like the mixture has
with low-calorie cooking Easy equal pieces, and form each split at first, but continue to
spray. Brown the meat over a Everyday Light piece into a burger shape. (You beat until it becomes glossy.
high heat then set aside. Vegetarian can freeze the burgers at this Spoon the mixture into a piping
3. Add a little more low-calorie Freezable point for cooking on another bag fitted with a large nozzle.
cooking spray to the pan, Gluten-free (use gluten-free day. oroughly defrost the Pipe ten eclairs onto the lined
then sauté the onions for 3-4 buns) burgers before cooking.) baking tray (they’ll be around
minutes until they start to 5. Spray a frying pan with some 12cm/5in long each). Dab any
soften. Serves 4 low-calorie cooking spray and ‘tails’ down with a wet finger
4. Add the remaining 220g medium potatoes, peeled place over a medium heat. Add and bake in the oven for 1 hour.
ingredients to the pan with the and diced the burgers and cook for five DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN! Not
browned meat and onions. Low-calorie cooking spray minutes or until they are golden even for a sneaky peek - they’ll
5. Bring to the boil then reduce 2 garlic cloves, crushed brown on the bottom, then likely collapse and you’ll end up
the heat and simmer for 1½–2 1 medium carrot, grated turn them carefully and cook with pancakes!
hours or until the meat is 50g green beans, trimmed and for another few minutes. When 4. Once the time is up, remove
tender. (You can also cover the finely chopped the other side is golden brown, the eclairs from the oven and
pan and cook in the oven for 50g cauliflower florets, finely remove from the heat and serve leave to cool on a wire rack.
2–2½ hours at 160°C/fan 140°C/ chopped the burgers on their own, in Only fill them when you are
gas mark 3, but make sure 50g broccoli florets, finely a wholemeal roll packed with ready to serve - aerosol cream
your pan is ovenproof.) chopped salad, or with sweet potato doesn’t keep its shape very long
6. Pull the meat apart with two 50g frozen peas rostis. once squirted! (You can freeze
forks - it should shred easily. If 50g sweetcorn kernels (tinned them at this point, prior to
the sauce is a little thin you can and drained, or frozen) Chocolate filling.)
remove the lid to reduce the Handful of fresh parsley, Eclairs 5. Once completely cool, cut
liquid. Serve on a bed of rice or chopped lengthways through three-
whatever you fancy. 30g Parmesan (or vegetarian Time 1 Hour 10 minutes quarters of each eclair. Melt
hard cheese) 109 kcal per serving the chocolate chips in a bowl
ELECTRIC PRESSURE Special Occasion in the microwave. Squirt one
COOKER METHOD To serve (optional) Freezable tablespoon of reduced-fat
• 1 HOUR 20 MINS 4 wholemeal burger buns aerosol cream into each split
1. Season the meat well with Lettuce leaves Makes 10 éclair and drizzle the melted
salt and pepper. 2 tbsp granulated sweetener chocolate over the tops. Serve
2. Set the pressure cooker to ½ tsp salt immediately. WW
Sauté/Browning, then spray 100g reduced-fat spread
it with a little low-calorie 150ml cold water
cooking spray. Add the meat 100g self-raising flour
and sauté for a few minutes on 2 large eggs
both sides until browned. 25g dark chocolate chips
3. Add the remaining 10 tbsp reduced-fat aerosol
ingredients to the pressure cream
cooker with the browned
meat. Put the lid on the Method Method Extracted from
pressure cooker and pressure- 1. Cook the potatoes in a pan of 1. Preheat the oven to 190°C Pinch of Nom
cook on Manual/Stew for 1 boiling salted water until soft, (fan 170°C/gas mark 5) and 100 Slimming
hour, then allow the pressure then drain well and mash with line a baking tray with baking Home-Style
to release naturally for about a hand-held masher or fork. parchment. Recipes by Kate
15 minutes (Natural Pressure 2. Spray a large frying pan 2. Put the granulated Allinson and Kay
Release/NPR). with some low-calorie cooking sweetener, salt, reduced-fat Featherstone
4. Pull the meat apart with spray and place over a medium spread and water in a saucepan (Bluebird,
two forks - it should shred heat. Add the garlic and all the and bring to the boil. As soon €26.30) which
easily. If the sauce is still a little vegetables (except the peas and as the mixture reaches the is out now
thin, remove the pressure sweetcorn) and cook for five boil, take the pan off the heat
cooker lid and set to Sauté to minutes, stirring so they don’t and gradually beat in the flour.
reduce slightly. Serve on a bed start to colour.
of rice or whatever you fancy. 3. Add the peas and sweetcorn e mixture will look lumpy at
and cook for 2–3 minutes. first, but persevere. Continue
to beat until the mixture forms

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Food news A taste of summer FINE DINE FOR LESS

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Behold the new, cuisine of e Westin’s

limited edition Morelands Grill for less

Baileys Strawberries thanks to their early bird

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Our thought was Friday from 5pm to 7pm and

why didn’t they do Saturday and Sunday from

COOKBOOK this sooner. It can be 5.45 to 7pm, you can enjoy two
OF THE served as part of a courses for €27 or three for
WEEK… The cocktail or on its own €33. Highlights on the menu
over ice. Delicious, include Carlingford oysters,

Quick Roasting Tin by and like the Irish cured Irish salmon and even
Rukmini Iyer (Square summer, catch it
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TASTE OF DUBLIN SMARTER THAN YOUR AVERAGE

Now in its 14th year, Taste of Dublin returns

from June 13 to 16 at Dublin’s Iveagh Glenilen farm has just introduced a new
Gardens. With everything from top chefs range for kids, Live Yogi, available in
doing demonstrations, to food stands, strawberry, banana and vanilla flavours.
entertainment, talks, samples and more this Made with live yoghurt, and fruit or
is an event not to be missed, and one of our vanilla extract, and with just 1.5 per cent
faves on the calendar. Tickets are priced from added sugar little ones will love these.
€17.50 with VIP packages also available. In stores now with an RRP of €2.19 for four
See www.tasteofdublin.ie for more details

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Travel newsIN FULL BLOOM Turndown
with a twist
We’re officially into the summer 2. Altamount Gardens, Co Carlow
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time in a beautiful garden? Ireland’s I can think of to describe Altamount launched a new Oscar
Ancient East is full of fantastic estate Gardens is ‘beautiful’. Dubbed the Wilde turndown. The
houses and gardens, and these make ‘most romantic gardens in Ireland’, building itself was
fantastic days out for both adults and this is the perfect place to enjoy some originally constructed
children. Need some inspiration for time with a loved one. Featuring in 1878, during the
planning a visit? Here are our top meadows, a rose garden and more, Victorian era, the same
three picks. green thumbs and nature aficionados period that Oscar Wilde
will love it here. resided in Dublin. The
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1. Powerscourt Estate, House and 3. Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford includes the traditional
Gardens, Co Wicklow offering of chocolate,
Featuring a 19th century Gothic- but also some bedtime
Featuring stunning views, Japanese revival castle set on a beautiful lake, reading in the form of
gardens and the famous pet cemetery, the gardens at Johnstown Castle are Irish Fairy Tales and
you can spend hours wandering these a thing of beauty. Incredibly popular Legends by Una Leavy
beautiful grounds. Make sure you with the locals for a weekend stroll, or The Complete Short
don’t miss the Cool Planet Experience here you’ll find lakeside trails, a Stories by Oscar Wilde.
located in Powerscourt House. Here, Victorian walled garden and, if you’re It also includes a custom
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On this seven-night holiday you’ll get the chance to explore the Center Enjoy seven nights at
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in the beautiful cathedrals and baroque buildings in the area. resort is now complete. depart from Dublin
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the announcement, Center
Parcs are currently opening
for bookings for short
breaks arriving from August
16 onwards.
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Irish holidaymakers are now
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CITY BREAK planning their summer escapes over a
year in advance. In response to increased Stay cool by the pool
Prague is a great place for this summer with this
a city break and here’s bookings for summer 2020, TUI has cheerful Kaftan dress.
a great little package added over a further 600 hotels to its 2020 The perfect summer
from Clickandgo.com. programme, including hotels with free child cover-up, it features a
You can enjoy two nights places that are available to book with deposits deep v-neckline edged
at the three-star Charles with cut-out detailing.
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mid-haul destinations have made up around wear it again and again.
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Soak up the sunshine in the Spanish After following
seaside resort of Salou. Enjoy a seven- the ancient
night stay in the four-star Golden tracks,
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breakfast basis from €375pps. Flights drove-roads
depart from Dublin airport on June 5. that crisscross
For details log on to www.travelrepublic.ie Britain in
The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane
The bee’s knees Now here’s a sweet little offering now goes underground. As with
the masterfully compelling earlier
from The Rose Hotel in Tralee. The ‘bees knees’ package book, Underland is a beautifully
includes a two-night stay in a classic room with written travel book that explores
breakfast, a honey-themed afternoon tea with honey what lies beneath from Norwegian
cocktail and a 30 minute jasmine and honeysuckle salt sea-caves to the ice blue depths
scrub in the Serenity Spa from €354 for the total stay. of the Greenland icecap, from
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Date for your diary: encountering spaces so tight he can
Mourne International Walking Festival ease through only by tilting his head
to one side. His luminescent essay in
The Mourne International Walking Festival returns deep geology ends in Finland, where
on Friday, June 28. Celebrating the beautiful Mourne a hiding place has been built to
Mountains area, the Festival offers three days of store/hide nuclear waste for 100,000
exploration and excitement. Running until June 30, the years. As always, Macfarlane is part
weekend will feature a range of walking routes suitable poet adventurer, part awestruck
for those who are starting out and more seasoned walkers. The festival will also feature explorer, and part prophet of
new routes this year, including one which takes visitors past two scenes which featured in ecological doom. Expansive, far-
Game of Thrones. sighted and yet deeply personal, this
For more information or to book tickets log on to www.visitmournemountains.co.uk/ is an important read.
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Ryanair recently launched its first ever travel podcast. Hosted by TV presenter Julia
Bradbury, the podcast is called Try Somewhere New and will feature three 25-minute
episodes. Released on Thursdays, each episode will cover popular destinations
across Europe. Speaking about the podcast, Julia Bradbury said: “It was fun
creating the Try Somewhere New podcast with Ryanair, and I hope that Ryanair
customers find the content insightful and useful as they decide where to head off to
this summer…” For more information log on to www.ryanair.com

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OPINION here, I said it:

T
In a word
In the wake of discussions surrounding gender identity,

Domhnall is reminded of a low point in his acting career

A conversation currently of the posts I read claimed, years ago, which might go to But then, the violence
gathering momentum relates words like ‘transgender’ and show why I’m so protective of got underway. A kick up
to the terminology used ‘cisgender’ aren’t attention- our transgender friends. the bum. A slap to the
around gender identity, seeking, fashionable labels; head. A punch on the arm.
prompted by the release of they are simply neutral e film was called The Eventually, as a security
John Boyne’s latest work, My descriptors, devoid of insult, Escapist, directed by the measure, I was removed from
Brother’s Name is Jessica. that can be used in the public brilliant Rupert Wyatt and set and only returned for the
domain and thereby afford mostly filmed in Kilmainham takes.
e novel, written for marginalised sectors of our Gaol. I played the part of
younger readers, follows a society the dignity they Wing Mary, described in We wrapped at three
teenager who reveals that she deserve. In her article, Martin the script as a transvestite, o’clock in the morning and
has been born into the wrong lamented that she was tired and her big moment was when I’d gotten back to my
body. of the lives of her community, a dance sequence that she trailer, I bawled crying. Not
“being put up for the debate”. performed for over a hundred for me but for those who’d
To support the release, Allowing words like ‘cis’ to male inmates. My costume endured this treatment on a
Boyne penned an article for enter the everyday lexicon was fabulous - we decided daily basis.
The Irish Times where he would, I imagine, assist this. to marry the beautiful with
rejected being recognised as the beastly, so the blonde Men and women who, I’d
cis - a simple descriptor used My chest never fails to platinum wig contrasted suspected, must continuously
to refer to a person whose tighten when I hear and read perfectly with a chest full of question whether being
gender corresponds with words like “snowflakes” or grisly hair. faithful to their true selves
their birth sex. e opposite is “stupid labels” or “ridiculous was worth the stares, the
transgender. Boyne insisted pc terms” - particularly from However, on set, things kicks, the punches. As a cis
that he simply be referred to those who, I suspect, don’t quickly turned sour. I man, I’d recognised how
as “a man”. share Martin’s experiences immediately became the fortunate and privileged I
of being marginalised and target of over a hundred was that I could remove the
In response, Aoife Martin, de-voiced. extras’ curiosity. Close to make-up and wig - for me, it
a transwoman, wrote in The me were luminaries like was just a job after all.
Irish Times that “the only roughout these Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes,
time I refer to people as being conversations, I was Dominic Cooper and Damian Unfortunately, this isn’t
cis is when discussing trans reminded of a project I Lewis but it was me, a something our transgender
issues. is is to distinguish worked on as an actor 12 young, unknown actor, who friends can do so easily.
them from transgender and was being celebrated like a
non-binary people.” She “ e power superstar - just because what eir lives don’t exist on
added: “Boyne, whether he of words... not I was wearing didn’t align film sets; they exist on the
likes it or not, is a cis man only when we use with what lots of these men streets, in the shops, in the
speaking from a position of them but, equally viewed as the status quo. offices, on the buses, in
cis privilege.” as important, everyday places, in real life.
when we don’t” Initially, it had been
While Helen of Troy’s face suggested to me that I e Irish are, arguably,
launched a thousand ships, embrace the attention - an the greatest storytellers in
this sparring launched a army of enthusiastic, crazed the world - as the work of
thousand angry tweets extras would surely bring the authors such as John Boyne
- from both sides of the scene to life. Always eager to will attest. is means that
discussion. In the midst of please, I’d agreed and during we should recognise the
the maelstrom, Boyne quit the rehearsals, I chatted away power of words.
Twitter. to everyone.
Not only when we use them
Contrary to what some but, equally as important,
when we don’t. WW

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