Molly O'Toole

Molly O’Toole is an Anthropology student at the UvA, with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Social Policy from University College Dublin, Ireland. Disillusionment with the structures of power that dominate the way we communicate and organise ourselves motivated her to pursue an ethnographic approach to research and knowledge-cultivation. As a writing editor at Inter, counter-narratives, movement of people and ideas, nation-building and belonging, diasporic cultural reproduction and imagination influence her research interests. Aside from these, the important currents in her life are experimental music, photography, yoga and spending time among those who believe another world is possible <3

Commodified Senses: Wellness Beyond the Individual

By Molly O’Toole Illustration by Helena Nascimento Breathing deeply, holding and exhaling, I feel more present than I have all week. I recognise the sensation of the mat below me, where the supple plastic connects with my bare feet. I smell the heady smoke of Palo Santo as it wafts lazily through the studio. I…

Virtual Realities

By Molly O’Toole Illustration by Célia Mortureux Ten years from the moment considered to ignite an era of “post-truth” media and information, our political and cultural worlds feels all the more foggy and confusing. Incidences such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump are considered by some cultural critics to have solidified “post-truth” as…