Senator Lynn Ruane has 25 years of experience of drugs, from use to support services to advocacy. Suffice to say she understands the topic in great detail. So with a government seeming to drag it heels the last few weeks and months have been difficult. Lynn explains how every day we delay real action like the citizens assembly on drugs […]
Recently, Amnesty International released a report on the experiences if sex workers in Ireland since the change in the law in 2017. To discuss this report I’m joined by current sex workers Poppy Devine and Roman, (@redumbrellafront), former sex worker Adeline Berry (@adeline_whitney), and Amnesty worker Anna Blus (@annamblus). You can find the report here: HERE and a blog post here: HERE Support us […]
This is the recording of our most recent Live Sunday Special with Fianna Fáil’s Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, Socialist – Loyalist, Sam Mcilwaine and Writer, Chair of the Women’s Forum and Sunday regular, Emma DeSouza. We went on a deep dive on the political events across this Island and into a serious conversation on the upcoming NI election […]
It was a great pleasure to be joined on the tortoise shack by comedian, online sketch creator and satirist, Matt Green. (If you don’t know him you’re in for a treat: @mattgreencomedy) Matt talks about how his standup comedy is very different to his social media sketches and how finding his audience online has helped him creatively in both mediums. […]
We spoke to Ciara in November (episode 173, Disabled, Homeless & Sleeping in My Car) and in this episode she talks to us again about how she is still in her car, and staying on and off with friends. She is part of the hidden homeless. She talks about the impact on her – of feeling invisible, and shame, but […]
Can porn be feminist? What could make porn feminist in the first place? To answer these questions, Im joined by feminist pornographer Paulita Pappel, found of lustery.com and hardwerk.com. She explains what feminist porn looks like, and how we can support sex workers. Find Paulita at @paulitapappel on twitter Support us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack << Back To The Glow West Podcast https://media.blubrry.com/glow-west/media.blubrry.com/glowwest/content.blubrry.com/glowwest/Paulita_Glowwest.mp3Podcast […]
It was a great pleasure to be joined in the tortoise shack by Dr Arsalan Shahid. We discuss how he came from Pakistan to Ireland in 2016, had to give up his ambition to become a surgeon because of our non-training of immigrant doctors, was married in early 2020 and how now, after an earlier miscarriage, he and his lovely […]
It was a pleasure to be joined in the tortoise shack by Crime Correspondent with the Irish Daily Star, Michael O’Toole and I convinced him to do most of it while we were recording. Mick explains how growing up in North Belfast the impact that the Bloody Sunday atrocity had on him and the community he comes from. We then […]