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Hello fellow denizens of the only social media platform that's still fun.

I have some block capitals too many exclamation marks NEWS!!!!

My first novel, Do It Yourself, will be published by Douglas and McIntyre later this year.

Do It Yourself is about Katy MacIsaac, a single mom in her 40s who reinvents herself as a DIY influencer, only to find her online life sparking chaos. It's funny and ideas-y. Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 20, 2026 11:30

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Average rating: 4.2 · 2,566 ratings · 313 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently 4.20 avg rating — 2,489 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen Writers on Intersectionality, Identity and Finding the Right Way Forward for Feminism by June Eric-Udorie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Soofiya Andry (Contributor), Gabrielle Bellot (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Playboy of the Western World―A New Version: A Critical Edition by Bisi Adigun, Jason King (Goodreads Author) (editor), Matthew Spangler (editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls will be girls - II ed.: travestirsi, interpretare ruoli e cambiare le regole (le sagge) by Emer O'Toole (Goodreads Author), Beatrice Gnassi (translator), Hanna Maria Suni (illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethical Exchanges in Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy (Themes in Theatre, 9) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls will be girls : À bas les stéréotypes de genre ! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Emer O'Toole has read A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jesus Christ, Thomas, you’ve gone too far this time
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This is the book all my theatre geek friends are getting for Christmas
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Emer O'Toole has read The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) by Isaac Asimov	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Every time I read/watch vintage Sci Fi, I’m like, interstellar travel! mind control technology! science that predicts the future! and the lil lady still in the kitchen baking pie for hubby at the end of his long day of intergalactic warfare. But the ...more
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“our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality.”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

tags: bodies, feminism, inequality, intersexuality

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“Agency refers to the individual – to the choices she makes. Structure refers to society – to the context that produced the individual, and in which she continues to act. Which of these factors most determines the person I am and the behaviours I perform?”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

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“Make-up shouldn't signify frivolity any more than a closely shaved chin or a well-trimmed beard. The problem is not skirts, stilettos or other symbols of femininity; rather, it's what the symbols of femininity mean in our sexist culture.”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

tags: feminism, feminist, sexism

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