#9 | Dublin Pride 2019

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Insight Matters

Dil Wickremasinghe

12 episodes

8 months ago

Welcome to our Insight Matters - Inspiring Change in Self and Society podcast! Dil and Anne Marie are the Co-Founders of Insight Matters and with a team of 55 therapists they support the mental health of over 400 clients per week through their two city centre practices in Dublin. The support services are affordable, inclusive and accessible. Since its inception, it has been Dil's and Anne Marie's vision to make Insight Matters a national service. Dil and Anne Marie have been through their own mental health journey and grappled with depression, anxiety, eating distress, sexual abuse, sexual identity, homophobia and discrimination. Coincidentally in 2006, before they met, they both reached out for help, Anne Marie became an in-patient in a psychiatric hospital and Dil started attending counselling in a centre for sexual abuse survivors. Both Dil and Anne Marie discovered their passion for mental health and 4 years later they met at a mental health retreat. Since then they have become passionate mental health advocates and they hope to raise awareness, break down stigma and inspire change in self and soceity. For more information please visit www.insightmatters.ie or email info@insightmatters.ie

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#9 | Dublin Pride 2019

Insight Matters

104 minutes 1 second

6 years ago

#9 | Dublin Pride 2019

On today’s podcast we are celebrating Dublin Pride 2019 and we’ll be joined by special guests, not to mention we’ve even got a fabulous live audience to say… HAPPY PRIDE!

Every year globally the wonderful LGBTQI+ community comes together to celebrate Pride in a burst of rainbow flags, doc martins, glitter and yes feather boas!

Joining us first is Clodagh Leonard, Chairperson of Dublin Pride and an enthusiastic human rights activist. We are also thrilled to be also joined by Grand Marshall of Dublin Pride 2019, Will St Ledger! Will is a Dublin based artist/activist – now known as an ARTIVIST – famous for his iconic and thought-provoking street art.

In this part of the episode, Dil, Anne Marie, Clodagh and Will discuss Will’s first Pride in London and how Dublin Pride has evolved over the years. They discuss the theme for this year’s Pride: Rainbow Revolution, and the history that inspired it, as well the effort to make Pride as accessible as possible for everyone. They also discuss what can still be improved about Pride and about the work that ACT UP does to help bring an end to the HIV crisis. We also hear Clodagh and Will’s coming out stories!

For the next section of the episode, we are joined by Noah Halpin, who founded and runs This Is Me: a grassroots campaign for improved healthcare for transgender and non-binary people in Ireland. We are also joined by Insight Matters very own psychotherapist and counsellor, Jim Hutton who has been working with the Trans community for many years.

In this second part, Dil, Anne Marie, Noah and Jim discuss Noah’s experience with trans help in Ireland – how he was on the waiting list for HRT for 2 years, and how his referral letter for this was lost three times – which led to him creating This Is Me. They discuss the amazing work This Is Me has done, including protests and direct action, and how this led them to meeting with Simon Harris. They also discuss the barriers faced by trans people to get the help they need, problems with therapy for trans people, the value and benefit of group therapy, and the most important things a therapist needs to provide for a trans person: understanding, self-education and language.

For the final part of the episode, we are joined by Grace McManus who is a newly elected Sinn Fein local counsellor in Bray. A proud gay woman, she helped establish Bray Refugee Solidarity. And we are also joined by Paula Fagan, CEO of LGBT Ireland – who has been working on LGBT rights for many years.

In this final part, Dil, Anne Marie, Grace and Paula discuss what got Grace into politics and her experience with it so far, the legislative changes that still need to happen for the LGBTQI+ community, the current progress that is being made toward these changes, and where should young activists focus on. They also discuss homelessness in the LGBTQI+ community – often because young people are thrown out of their homes after they come out to their parents. We also hear stories from Paula, Dil and Anne Marie about their first Pride!

If you need to talk to someone, call us now on 01-891 0703 or email info@insightmatters.ie for a confidential discussion and initial assessment with one of our senior therapists. Alternatively please fill in the online booking form (www.insightmatters.ie/book-online/) and we will contact you within 24 hours.