Eleanor BrooksIs Coming Out Still A Queer Rite of Passage? Part III used to think of the classic coming out experience as one big release– a single expansive explosion, the truth simultaneously settling…Sep 29, 2023Sep 29, 2023
Eleanor BrooksSave each other, touch yourself!When staying safe means staying apart, a lot of us are missing out on human touch. Non-sexual intimate self-touch can help.Feb 9, 2021Feb 9, 2021
Eleanor BrooksMy grandad taught me to appreciate a smaller worldOur world may have gotten smaller, but you should see it an invitation to look more closely.Aug 6, 2020Aug 6, 2020
Eleanor BrooksLife under lockdown: I’m finding hard to accommodate my affinity towards darker genres of music…My threshold to tolerate human suffering, real or fictionalised, indigenous or exogenous, is diminishing.May 16, 2020May 16, 2020
Eleanor BrooksAnnals of Medicine — ‘Are you married?’I must have struck an odd figure, a flat-bellied, white girl sitting alone amongst the pregnant Indian ladies and their husbands. Their…Sep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
Eleanor BrooksFailure to Launch Part II: Living at HomeIn part two of ‘Failure to Launch’ I chatted with Karen and her mother Geraldine, who spent six months living together in their family…Feb 26, 2019Feb 26, 2019
Eleanor BrooksFailure to Launch Part 1: Rising Rent PricesThis is part one of a three-part series about the impact of Ireland’s rising rent and house prices for Irish millienials. Next week’s…Feb 26, 2019Feb 26, 2019
Eleanor BrooksMen need to start identifying their own behaviour as sexual assaultLike millions of women around the world, it is impossible for me to follow the story of Harvey’s Weinstein with the same distance that is…Aug 29, 20183Aug 29, 20183