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

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…