Roe McDermott

2 days ago | hotpress.com | Roe McDermott

The Encampments, directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker, is a lean, clear-eyed documentary that offers an essential account of the student protests that began at Columbia University in spring 2024 and rapidly spread across the United States. Grounded in the testimony of the young people who led the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, the film restores the voices of those who were often vilified or ignored in the mainstream coverage of the movement.

2 days ago | image.ie | Roe McDermott

Image / Self / Relationships Can ChatGPT tell you if he’s being weird? In search of sanity in a confusing romantic landscape, women are using AI to outsource emotional labour in an unequal system while men outsource their emotional growth to ChatGPT, writes Roe McDermott. A woman in Greece recently filed for divorce after consulting ChatGPT. Not a couple’s counsellor. Not a priest or a best friend or even a late-night Reddit thread. A chatbot.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Roe McDermott

Should I tell my wife I’m a crossdresser? I’ve kept this part of me secret since childhood and through our marriage. I really haven’t had much opportunity to explore this part of myself but it has always been there. Over the past year or so, I’ve bought my own clothes, make-up and wig and taken some time when home alone to dress. More recently I’ve found some community with other crossdressers online, sharing photos and chatting. I’ve enjoyed this sense of connection and recognition.

1 week ago | hotpress.com | Roe McDermott

Director Alessandra Celesia discusses her new documentary  The Flats, which examines the lasting social and psychological cost of the Troubles. There are places where history doesn’t just linger in the streets – it seeps into the skin and settles in the bones. In The Flats, Alessandra Celesia’s haunting new documentary, Belfast is one of those places. Set in the crumbling New Lodge estate in North Belfast, the film is at once a reckoning, a lament, and a kind of séance.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Roe McDermott

Hazel Wallace is just home after a celebratory brunch in London, a warm and glittering event to mark the publication of her fourth book, Not Just a Period. She has shared glimpses of the picturesque gathering on her Instagram feed, the pictures nestled alongside her signature posts: beautifully plated blueberry oats recipes for the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, yoga flows for cramps, and finish-line shots from the London and Paris marathons.