Christophe Coupé wants to talk to Dubliners “who were born in Ireland, raised in Ireland”, and migrant kids who went through the Irish education system.
“The Language I Cannot Speak” is a performance of stories and poems that draws on Zimbabwean folklore and family tales to explore identity and culture.
Grief is different for everyone – it’s important that each member of the black community can express anger at racial injustice in their own way, writes Filomena Kaguako.
The Irish state was built around a monocultural idea of “true Irishness” – an idea etched into laws that ignore and inflict violence upon those who do not match this imaginary vision of a nation.
Gardaí need to do a better job of taking victims’ reports seriously and gathering data on hate crimes, and they should develop comprehensive rules for responding to such crimes.
A woman and her partner often face harassment when going out together in their local area. How should they respond? they wonder. Ebun offers some advice.
“What should I do if an employee of a venue treats me unprofessionally as organiser of a cultural event, because she doesn’t like other cultures?” a reader asks. Ebun offers advice.
Irish Taxi Drivers Federation president Joe Herron says he hopes none of his group’s members have them, and that people shouldn’t blame all white taxi drivers for something only a few are doing.
When confronted with irrefutable data from Census statistics about groups that are marginalised in Ireland, people regularly ask me what they can do to help, writes a UCD lecturer.
