Sex for Medicine and Healing: Ep 98

Sex isn’t just fun – its medicine and a way to heal from trauma. To explain how this works, I’m joined by Devi Ward Erickson who shares how tantra can help help people and taps into medicine, spirituality, pleasure, and the body in order to offer somatic therapy and healing for body and mind. Find Devi at authentictantra.com Support us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack […]

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4. The Sunday Special: Populism, Pensions and Pantomime

This week Martin and Tony were joined by panelists Shamim Malekmian of the Dublin Inquirer, Maria Delaney of Noteworthy, Prof Joe Haslam and we had great contributions from the wonderful Anne Marie Quilligan and the fairly okay Kevin Cunningham. Shamim told us about the gap in the legal aid system that is punishing immigrants in an already cruel system, Joe […]

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Amrou Al-Kadhi – Life As A Unicorn

Join us as we launch the second season of ConverSayTrans! In our first episode we talk to Amrou Al-Kadhi. Amrou is a well established writer who also performs drag under the pseudonym Glamrou. Taking all that you could call them a professional unicorn and in this glorious episodes we discuss their debut book – a memoir , Life as a […]

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152. No Keys, No Degrees: The Worst Ever Student Accommodation Crisis

This Reboot Republic talks to student representatives from across the country about the student accommodation crisis which has been described as the worst this country has ever seen. We talk to Clare Austick, President of the Union of Students in Ireland, Róisín Nic Lochlainn of the NUIGalway SU, Aine Daly of Technical University for the Shannon, Rachel McCartney of Waterford […]

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621. Holly Cairns on Anti-Corruption/Cronyism and the Repeal Review

As the Dáil returns from the summer recess, we caught up with Social Democrats TD for West Cork and her Party spokesperson for Agriculture and Disability & Social Justice, Holly Cairns. We chat the Katherine Zappone appointment, the Soc Dems plans to tackle these insider deals, her plans for the new term (including the review into the Repeal legislation, the […]

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150. The Housing Market is Not Rational

Why Government Housing Policy is Inflating House Prices and Rents, with Mel Renolds This Reboot Republic talks to Architect and housing analyst, Mel Reynolds, about the current state of the Irish housing market, what will happen with prices and rents, why economists get it wrong with arguments around increased supply leading to reduced house prices. Mel analyses the Housing for […]

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Consent Clarity: Ep 97

There are a lot of different ways to think and talk about consent, and consent theory can update quickly as we learn more about consent and sexual violence. Joining me to discuss some of these different models is the wonderful Phoenix Mandel, a sex educator who teaches consent amongst other topics. Phoenix talks us through different models and lays the […]

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The Sunday Special S.2 Ep.3 – Talking ‘Bout My Constitution!

At noon we recorded another bumper Sunday Special with a brilliant panel of Dr. Jennifer Kavanagh, Emma DeSouza, Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll and Mick Clifford. We discussed Mick’s recent reporting on ICHH, the handling of allegations of sexual assault and a potential hierarchy of victimhood. We dived into President Michael D. Higgins decision to not attend a Partition Commemoration and the messages […]

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