Róisín O’Connor-Laurence
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Róisín O’Connor-Laurence
@roisinocl.bsky.social
Irish-Chilean heritage. Childhood in Ireland, Malawi & Eswatini. Moved to new South Africa in ‘93, now in📍Brighton, UK. 4 education systems, several languages, former teacher, counsellor in training. Writing. Crafts, books & film. Aikikai. 50+🇺🇳🇪🇺🌍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
“Teenage boy arrested after stealing car and injuring a 70-year old woman…” - stop obfuscating male violence against women and girls and by using the passive, in headlines. Put the focus on the perpetrators.
May 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So thaaaaat’s what the religion achieved for him. I see, I see! Did he pollute the rest of the planet with those worms?
April 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
…let their new partners use whatever their science built (or funded) without any sense of irony?These women look good in a spacesuit and very like those who were paraded in minis on the sets that formed part of the x-gen boys dreams on Trek, etc… whilst claiming ‘feminism’. It’s complicated.
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Part of me agrees, part of me thinks - but is that just me being mean-spirited because it’s easier to look down on women because of bone-deep patriarchy? Or, is it because I love sci-fi, and am annoyed that the Trek boys I grew up with, who queried and played gatekeeper over how ‘Trek’ I was would..
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Other legislation that happened around the time:

www.sahistory.org.za/article/apar...
Apartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's | South African History Online
www.sahistory.org.za
March 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
…/and his servant, the other host (behind the woman in the red dress). My host has only been in the house for two weeks, chose my arrival to find a new water source! Lid down from now on. I dressed for Vladivostok, but wandering around the cobbled lanes today, it hit 19°C. 😅More sun this w/end.
March 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM