Whether you’re moving out of home for the first time or just looking for a new rental, house hunting can be super exciting! It’s your chance for independence, make your space your own, and to live with friends. As fun as that all sounds, there are a few important things […]
By Gift Sotonye-Frank (Student Officer Postgraduate) Every year Queen’s University of Belfast Students’ Union (QUBSU) puts out a call for election of student officers. The familiar line of call is that ‘by becoming a student officer you will represent over 25000 students, make real decisions that make impact on students’ […]
In the past week, it has come to light that between 2017 and 2018, just 12 women were able to access abortion care on the Northern Ireland NHS. Over 900 travelled to access abortion and an unknown number took safe but illegal abortion pills during the same period. These Department of […]
Why You Should Put Yourself Forward in the Student Leader Elections… by Gift Sotonye-Frank Part-Time Women Students’ Officer Are you a Queen’s student? If you answered yes to this question, then you should indeed put yourself forward for the Student Leader Elections! I still remember the 28th of February 2018 […]
The University and Colleges Union (UCU) at Queen’s, of which a sizable number of staff members of our university belong to, have balloted by a majority of 88% for industrial action following the incredibly damaging proposed cuts to the existing pension scheme of our university staff members, including junior and […]
CN: Sensitive content, discussion about death, benefits, welfare reform and ableism. Attempting to study or work while having a disability or disabilities can be tough. Don’t get me wrong; your natural reaction shouldn’t be to feel pity or upset at the difficulties and challenges faced by myself. Instead: feel anger. […]
It has been close to 5 years since I woke up in the morning without wincing in pain, but whether I like it or not, my chronic pain shapes my life and who I am. I suffer from endometriosis and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), which basically means I suffer from […]
By Cat Rafferty, Disabled Students’ Officer at Queen’s Students’ Union Imagine someone took everything you could hear and then made the volume double. Then imagine whatever device they used wasn’t of great quality and what you hear now has lots of noise and crackling. That’s what it’s like for me. […]
Living with an invisible disability is hard; dealing with one that flares up every month or so is pretty damn hard too. My pain rolls around and like half the population, I bleed, I’m cranky and occasionally, very occasionally, I might just shed a tear or two over an adorable […]
Yesterday was the International Day of Disabled Persons, and rather than celebrating the lives of disabled people, the news in Northern Ireland was focused on the changes to disability benefits known as Welfare Reform. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland released a joint […]