Sexuality & Gender – Page 4

The Road to Repeal: How Ireland Said ‘Yes’

February 18, 2019 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

On May 25, 2018, the people of Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favour of repealing the 8th amendment of the Irish Constitution—the article that had hitherto made it effectively impossible to legislate for abortion even in the most extreme of circumstances.

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On Regretting Motherhood

January 12, 2019 by The IotL Magazine 3 Comments

The perfect, romanticised version of motherhood—the ‘motherhood myth’—needs to be dismantled. Women who are childless by choice are controversial, but women who regret motherhood…? This is the ultimate taboo.

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Abortion and Relatedness: Breaking the Silence

November 20, 2018 by Rachael Scicluna Leave a Comment

Why is abortion a taboo? It invokes a sequence of deep-rooted associations which link the concept of embryo to the sense of family and relatedness. Thus, in a kin society like Malta, breaking the connection between the embryo and the woman’s body could be perceived akin to dismantling other ties that hold the family and society together.

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On Love and Activism

October 19, 2018 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

Poetry of Bledvar Albekell

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‘The Stigma of Abortion Traumatised Me as Much as the Procedure Itself’

October 3, 2018 by Raisa Galea Leave a Comment

A confession of a woman who, in equal measure, was psychologically traumatised by the experience of abortion and the stigma surrounding the procedure in Malta.

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