COLUMNS
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on the challenges of being a woman firefighter and supporting women one at a time
Spotlight
Maria Behan on slimeballs, being an American in the Trump era, and the closing of her country
Roar
Lorna O’Hara on why voters in Ireland must not turn their backs on Irish women and must repeal the 8th
Soapbox
Mike Hembury on militant feminism, inspiring acts of courage and collective change
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on facing the injustice, political awareness, and the path towards real resistance
Dear Growler
Our agony aunt Growler answers an Awake and Angry New Feminist on how to love the men in her life
Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on student activism, learning politics, and the power of a zine
Behind Domestic Lines
Jami Ingledue on why the resistance is female and what it means to be a superhero
Other Father
James Prenatt on learning to be the father that his daughter needs him to be
ORIGINS
NOW BERLIN
Origins
In our new ORIGINS column poet Ann Christine Tabaka writes on the inspiration behind her poem ‘Ruin’
Now Berlin
Our NOW BERLIN column meets with the organisers of Berlin’s new alternative Irish music & arts festival CRAW
FICTION
The Tiger Who Visited
Charlotte Brisland’s short story ‘The Tiger Who Visited’
POETRY
Elizabeth Harmatys Park
Elizabeth Harmatys Park’s poem ‘Killer Bees’
Jeremy Nathan Marks
Jeremy Nathan Marks’s poems ‘Springtime in Washington’ and ‘Give a poor man a fish’
Irene Cunningham
Irene Cunningham’s poem ‘ WARNING: We are coming’
Kathryn Robyn
Kathryn Robyn’s poem ‘When You Can’t See the Sun’
Venus
Our Artist-in-Residence is Berlin-based musician, doula and writer Ohrkid
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