Fiadh Melina

@fiadhmelina.bsky.social

writer-maker / mother / tattoo collector / chronically ill / ancient historian they/she 🚫 Gen AI fiadhmelina.carrd.co

Hey ARC Readers of #booksky! If you’re looking for a read that feels like Gen V meets Arcane meets The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the very real treatment of the Catholic Church on Irish unwed and marginalised mothers, I might have a book for you!

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The old cities have flooded and crumbled, all that’s left is their memory, preserved in data while the real world continues to decay. When Naoise writes an essay critical of the data cities, she is called in front of her school’s board and sets off a path of resistance she may not be prepared for.

Green hued cyberpunk city background with a young woman in the foreground. She has black hair cut into a short bob, white skin and blue eyes.

Another day, another Harvard genetics paper on the whereabouts of an (I really stress this) purely *imaginary “Indo-European homeland” - published in Nature, to the applause of alt-right and white supremacists the world over, but of course, all in the name of “good science”..

There might be some rain tomorrow, so bring an umbrella and if you're able to, dress for the weather. We're sure some people will share umbrella space with those around them, but please respect people's personal space if they need a little more distance

A white person with bright red hair sitting in a wheelchair. They are wearing ear defenders, a bright red dress and a red mask. They are talking into a mic with one hand raised in the air. A hand of someone is holding a red umbrella over them as it rains

Text reads

Rain Or Shine We’ll Be Just Fine

But maybe bring an umbrella (-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay)

Disabled people demand the Irish Government: Scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform